Down Home (Sam Jones album)

Down Home is the third album by the double bass player and cellist Sam Jones, recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label.[1][2]

Down Home
Studio album by
Released1962
RecordedJune 25 & August 15–16, 1962
New York City
GenreJazz
Length39:26
LabelRiverside
RLP 432
ProducerOrrin Keepnews
Sam Jones chronology
The Chant
(1961)
Down Home
(1962)
Seven Minds
(1974)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [4]
DownBeat     [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music     [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings    [5]

Scott Yanow of AllMusic wrote: "This is excellent hard bop-based music."[4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings wrote that Jones "improvises against the grain of the orchestra to telling effect."[5] Billboard called the album "a fine showcase for Jones."[6]

Track listing edit

All compositions by Sam Jones except as indicated

  1. "Unit 7" - 4:49
  2. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 4:05
  3. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 5:31
  4. "O.P." - 5:07
  5. "Thumbstring" (Ray Brown) - 4:31
  6. "Down Home" - 4:08
  7. "Strollin'" (Horace Silver) - 4:12
  8. "Falling in Love With Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 7:03

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ Riverside Records discography. Retrieved September 17, 2012
  2. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 696.
  3. ^ Down Beat, March 28, 1963 vol. 30, no. 8
  4. ^ a b Yanow, S. AllMusic review.Retrieved September 17, 2012
  5. ^ a b The Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings (Ninth ed.). Penguin Books. 2008. pp. 798–799.
  6. ^ "Jazz LP'S". Billboard: 26. December 8, 1962.