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Released
  
1971

Length
  
31:36

Artist
  
Reuben Wilson

Producer
  
George Butler

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
July 23, 1971

Set Us Free (1971)
  
The Sweet Life (1972)

Release date
  
1971

Label
  
Blue Note Records

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Set Us Free is the fifth album by American organist Reuben Wilson recorded in 1971 and released on the Blue Note label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "it's a wildly textured and seamless aural meld of gritty B-3 jams, smooth yet psychedelic soul, rock, pop, and funk... somehow, this ambitious, lushly orchestrated album not only sounds current, but still ahead of its time. Highly recommended". The song "We're in Love" has been sampled multiple times, most famously by DJ Premier on Nas' 1994 debut album Illmatic in the song "Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park)". It was also sampled in the song "I Ain't the Damn One" by rapper Scientifik.

Track listing

All compositions by Reuben Wilson except as indicated
  1. "Set Us Free" (Eddie Harris) - 5:10
  2. "We're in Love" - 3:30
  3. "Sho-Nuff Mellow" - 4:34
  4. "Mr. Big Stuff" (Joseph Broussard, Carol Washington, Ralph Williams) - 4:36
  5. "Right on with This Mess" (W. Marcus Bey) - 4:32
  6. "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" (Marvin Gaye) - 3:41
  7. "Tom's Thumb" - 5:33
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on July 23, 1971.

    • Personnel

  • Reuben Wilson - organ
  • Jerome Richardson - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Eugene Bianco - harp
  • David Spinozza - guitar, electric sitar
  • Richard Davis - bass
  • Jimmy Johnson - drums
  • Ray Armando - conga
  • Gordon "Specs" Powell - percussion
  • Wade Marcus - arranger
  • Mildred Brown, Rosalyn Brown, Naomi Thomas - vocals (tracks 2, 4 & 6)
  • Jimmy Briggs - vocal arranger (tracks 2, 4 & 6)

    • Songs

    1Set Us Free5:08
    2We're in Love3:27
    3Sho-Nuff Mellow4:32

    References

    Set Us Free Wikipedia
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