Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul album)

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars. All About Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars stating "Money In The Pocket is a remarkable album—remarkable in that gives absolutely no hint of the shape shifts that would transform Zawinul's work a few years later. The first of three albums he recorded for Atlantic, it's a conventional mix of mid-1960s hard bop and soul jazz". The Guardian's John Fordham noted "this session reflects the driving grooves of that popular soul-jazz style – so there are a lot of backbeats, repeating riffs, horn-harmony wailing and stagey stop-time breaks".

Track listing

All compositions by Joe Zawinul except as indicated

1. "Money in the Pocket" - 4:46
2. "If" (Joe Henderson) - 3:47
3. "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) - 3:52
4. "Midnight Mood" - 6:06
5. "Some More of Dat" (Sam Jones) - 6:02
6. "Sharon's Waltz" - 5:06
7. "Riverbed" - 5:09
8. "Del Sasser" (Jones) - 3:45

Personnel