Lou Donaldson - Sassy Soul Strut

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:20
Size: 90.0 MB
Styles: Soul-Jazz
Year: 1973/2013
Art: Front

[7:01] 1. Sanford And Son Theme
[3:50] 2. Pillow Talk
[4:36] 3. Sassy Soul Strut
[2:33] 4. Good Morning Heartache
[9:07] 5. City, Country, City
[5:19] 6. This Is Happiness
[6:51] 7. Inner Space

Sassy Soul Strut pairs Lou Donaldson with arranger George Butler to create a smooth, unabashedly commercial session some distance removed from the saxophonist's classic soul-jazz efforts. Emphasizing electric instruments and radio-friendly rhythms, the album nevertheless plays to Donaldson's strengths, focusing more on mood and texture and less on funk. Opening with a gutbucket rendition of Quincy Jones immortal "The Streetbeater" (far better known as the theme to television's Sanford and Son), Sassy Soul Strut quickly settles comfortably into a light, accessible mode too lively to dismiss as smooth jazz but too mellow to pass as anything else. Butler's arrangements haven't dated particularly well, but the record's too innocuous and good-natured to qualify as an outright failure. It's simply forgettable, nothing more and nothing less. ~Jason Ankeny

Sassy Soul Strut

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