I need some money

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I need some money
Studio album by Eddie Harris

Publication
(s)

1975

Label (s) Atlantic Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

7th

running time

44:58

occupation

production

Geoffrey Haslam

Studio (s)

Paragon Studios, Chicago

chronology
Is It In I need some money Bad luck is all i have

I Need Some Money (dt .: I need money ) is a jazz album by the American saxophonist Eddie Harris , which he recorded on June 15, 1974 in Chicago and Atlantic Records published 1975th

background

Harris combined jazz with comedy elements for the first time on the album; according to Scott Yanow, it even focused on comedy. He can also be heard as a singer for the first time on the album, incorporating scat elements.

The album begins with the catchy title track I Need Some Money . The piece Get on Down has radio elements and is considered to be very danceable with emphasized grooves and an eccentrically played electric tenor saxophone, whereby his scat singing achieves an astonishingly syncopated effect. The other tracks mix elements of funk and soul, with Harris using an electronic rhythm machine that he also used on a few earlier Atlantic Records albums. The album peaked at number nine on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums.

reception

The album was not taken seriously by the critics as a real jazz album. Richard S. Ginell wrote on Allmusic:

Eddie Harris finally steps out as a singer in the first of a series of humorous hard-luck songs that would be the flagships of his next few LPs… Harris also fools with an electronic rhythm machine and electronic horn attachments that practically turn his sax into a synthesizer. In any case, the thing he still does best here is ride a groove, the best of which is the extremely danceable "Get on Down", complete with Leon Thomas-like yodeling and a percussive vocal from the erstwhile sax master .

“Eddie Harris ended up singing a first series of humorous songs about personal bad luck that would be the flagships of his next LP… Harris also fooled around with a drum machine and electronic amplification of the wind instruments that practically turned his saxophone into a synthesizer. In any case, what he does best here is to play a groove, the best of which is the extremely danceable "Get On Down", rounded off with a Leon Thomas-like yodeling and percussive singing from the former saxophone master. "

The authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton are also cautious in their rating in the Penguin Guide to Jazz (they only gave the album 2½ stars) and write:

Eddie's gimmicks - which include singing through the electric sax and playing his reed trumpet - overwhelm the musical content here, and the thin production makes the keyboards and rhythm sections sound even weedier than they were. The final 'That's It' gets a nice groove going, but it's too late.

“ Eddie's antics - which include singing through the electric saxophone and playing a trumpet with a saxophone mouthpiece - overwhelm the musical content here, and the thin production makes the keyboards and rhythm section sound even slimmer than they were. The final ›That's It‹ develops a nice groove, but that comes too late. "

Track list

  • Eddie Harris - I Need Some Money (Atlantic SD 1669)
  1. I Need Some Money (Harris, Bradley Bobo, Durf, Ronald Muldrow) - 3:10
  2. Get On Down (Calvin Barnes, Durf, Ronald Muldrow, Rufus Reid) - 9:48
  3. Time to Do Your Thing (Sara E. Harris) - 6:12
  4. Carnival - 4:14
  5. Don't Want Nobody (Sara E. Harris) - 11:52
  6. Bumpin (Harris, Ronald Muldrow) - 4:11
  7. That's It - 5:31
  • All tracks were composed by Eddie Harris unless otherwise noted
  • The title It's Time to Do Your Thing , which was also recorded at the session, remained unpublished; Obnoxious appeared on the Eddie Harris album Bad Luck Is All I Have (Atlantic SD 1675). I Don't Want Nobody / I Need Some Money (Atlantic 3245) and Get On Down / Time to Do Your Thing (Atlantic 3256) were released as singles .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SD 1669 Eddie Harris - I Need Some Money at jazzdisco.org. Retrieved January 12, 2013 .
  2. ^ Scott Yanow: Jazz on Record. The First Sixty Years . Backbeat Books, San Francisco, 2003, p. 729, ISBN 0-87930-755-2
  3. ↑ a b Review at Allmusic.com. Retrieved January 11, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Review at hdtracks.com. Retrieved January 11, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Cf. Cook / Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz, 6th edition, p. 671.
  6. ^ A b Atlantic Records / Discography-1974