These Blues of Mine is the second album by jazz organist Trudy Pitts, recorded in 1967 and released on the Prestige label.[1]

These Blues of Mine
Studio album by
Released1967
RecordedSeptember 21 & 25, 1967
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length39:11
LabelPrestige
PR 7538
ProducerCal Lampley
Trudy Pitts chronology
Introducing the Fabulous Trudy Pitts
(1967)
These Blues of Mine
(1967)
A Bucketful of Soul
(1968)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic     [2]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "Better than expected soul-jazz interpretations of contemporary rock and pop songs stand alongside jazz originals... It works best when they cut to straight, burning soul-jazz groovers".[2]

Track listing edit

All compositions by Bill Carney except as noted

  1. "Organology" – 4:00
  2. "The House of the Rising Sun" (Traditional) – 3:39
  3. "Just Us Two" – 5:05
  4. "Eleanor Rigby" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:51
  5. "Count Nine" (Trudy Pitts) – 4:15
  6. "Man and a Woman" (Chuck Calhoun) – 4:20
  7. "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Gary Brooker, Keith Reid, Matthew Fisher) – 3:10
  8. "Teddy Makes Three" – 3:03
  9. "These Blues of Mine" (Bill Carney, Sonny Truitt) – 5:25
  10. "What the World Needs Now" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:23

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ Prestige Records discography accessed May 8, 2013
  2. ^ a b Unterberger, R. Allmusic listing accessed May 8, 2013