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Straight Up (Harold Vick album)

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Released
  
1967

Release date
  
1967

Genre
  
Jazz

Artist
  
Harold Vick

Label
  
RCA Victor

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Recorded
  
October 3 & 4, 1966 at RCA Studio B in NYC

Straight Up (1967)
  
Watch What Happens (1967)

Similar
  
The Caribbean Suite, Don't Look Back, Commitment, Steppin' Out!, Power of Feeling

Straight Up is an album led by American saxophonist Harold Vick recorded in 1966 and released on the RCA Victor label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 4 stars and stated "The superb Straight Up captures Harold Vick's shift away from the lithe tenor/organ sessions of his previous work toward the bold soul-jazz of his finest recordings".

Track listing

All compositions by Harold Vick except as indicated

  1. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 4:15
  2. "Like A Breath of Spring (Bossa)" (Phil Bodner) - 2:55
  3. "Gone with the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) - 5:22
  4. "Straight Up" - 2:39
  5. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine) - 5:47
  6. "Lonely Girl" (Neal Hefti) - 2:39
  7. "A Rose For Wray (Bossa)" - 5:42
  8. "Flamingo" (Ted Grouya, Edmund Anderson) - 4:56
  9. "Winter Blossom" - 4:58

Personnel

  • Harold Vick - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  • Virgil Jones - trumpet
  • Warren Chiasson - vibraphone
  • Albert Dailey - piano
  • Everett Barksdale - guitar (tracks 2, 4 & 6)
  • Walter Booker - bass
  • Hugh Walker - drums

    • Songs

    1If I Should Lose You
    2Like a Breath of Sprin
    3Gone With the Wind

    References

    Straight Up (Harold Vick album) Wikipedia
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