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Released
  
1973

Artist
  
Grover Washington Jr.

Producer
  
Creed Taylor

Genre
  
Jazz

Soul Box (1973)
  
Mister Magic (1975)

Release date
  
1973

Label
  
Kudu

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Recorded
  
March 1973 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Length
  
33:00 Soul Box Vol. 1 35:18 Soul Box Vol. 2 68:18 Verve CD

Similar
  
Grover Washington Jr albums, Jazz albums

Soul Box is the third album by American saxophonist Grover Washington Jr.. The project was originally divided in two LPs, both released in 1973 on Kudu Records with quite identical covers as Soul Box Vol. 1 (KU-12) and Soul Box Vol. 2 (KU-13), then issued as a 2-LP set as KUX-1213. Both albums were recorded during March 1973 with the same personnel. In 2008, the two volumes were released on one CD by Verve/GRP Records.

Contents

Soul Box Vol. 1

  1. "Aubrey" (David Gates) – 3:44
  2. "Masterpiece" (Norman Whitfield) – 13:20
  3. "Trouble Man" (Marvin Gaye) – 15:56

Soul Box Vol. 2

  1. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder) – 6:03
  2. "Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) – 11:11
  3. "Medley: Easy Living/Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger)/(Everett Robbins, Porter Grainger) – 9:56
  4. "Taurian Matador" (Billy Cobham Jr.) – 8:08

Verve CD reissue

  1. "Aubrey" (David Gates) – 3:44
  2. "Masterpiece" (Norman Whitfield) – 13:20
  3. "Trouble Man" (Marvin Gaye) – 15:56
  4. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Wonder) – 6:03
  5. "Don't Explain" (Herzog Jr., Holiday) – 11:11
  6. "Medley: Easy Living/Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do" (Robin, Rainger)/(Everett Robbins, Grainger) – 9:56
  7. "Taurian Matador" (Billy Cobham Jr.) – 8:08

Personnel

  • Grover Washington Jr. – tenor, alto and soprano saxophone
  • Bob James – piano, arranger, conductor
  • Richard Tee – organ
  • Eric Gales – electric guitar
  • Bernie Glow, John Frosk, Jon Faddis, Randy Brecker – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Wally Kane – flute, clarinet, clarinet [Contra Bass], saxophone
  • Santo Russo, Wayne Andre – trombone
  • Alan Raph, Paul Faulise, Tony Studd – trombone (bass)
  • Hubert Laws – flute, piccolo flute
  • Romeo Penque – flute, piccolo flute, clarinet, clarinet (bass), oboe, English horn
  • George Marge – flute, piccolo flute, oboe
  • Harvey Estrin – flute, piccolo flute
  • Brooks Tillotson, Jim Buffington, Peter Gordon – French horn
  • Ron Carter – bass, bass (arco)
  • Richard Davis – bass (arco)
  • Donald MacCourt – bassoon
  • Idris Muhammad, Billy Cobham – drums
  • Airto Moreira, David Friedman, Phil Kraus, Ralph MacDonald – percussion
  • Barbara Massey, Bernard Thacker, Eileen Gilbert, Maeretha Stewart, Randolph Peyton, Bill Eaton – vocals

    • Strings

  • Alfred Brown, Emanuel Vardi, Theodore Israel – viola
  • Charles Libove, David Nadien, Elliot Rosoff, Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff, Harold Kohon, Harry Cykman, Harry Lookofsky, Joe Malin, Max Ellen, Paul Gershman – violin
  • Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Seymour Barab – cello

    • Songs

    1Aubrey3:44
    2Masterpiece13:20
    3Trouble Man15:54

    References

    Soul Box Wikipedia
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