That Healin' Feelin' (Horace Silver album)

That Healin' Feelin' (subtitled The United States of Mind Phase 1) is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1970, featuring performances by Silver with Randy Brecker, George Coleman, Houston Person, Bob Cranshaw, Jimmy Lewis, Mickey Roker and Idris Muhammad with vocals by Andy Bey, Gail Nelson and Jackie Verdell.[3] It is the first of a trilogy of albums later compiled on CD as The United States of Mind.

That Healin' Feelin'
Studio album by
ReleasedEnd of October 1970[1]
RecordedApril 8 & June 18, 1970
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz
Length36:23
LabelBlue Note
BST 84352
ProducerFrancis Wolff, George Butler
Horace Silver chronology
You Gotta Take a Little Love
(1969)
That Healin' Feelin'
(1970)
Total Response
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Reception

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The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 3 stars and simply states: "Lyrics a bit to the pretentious side; music overcomes it".[4]

Track listing

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All compositions by Horace Silver

  1. "That Healin' Feelin" - 3:54
  2. "The Happy Medium" - 4:58
  3. "The Show Has Begun" - 4:11
  4. "Love Vibrations" - 4:03
  5. "Peace" - 3:26
  6. "Permit Me to Introduce You to Yourself" - 3:13
  7. "Wipe Away the Evil" - 4:15
  8. "Nobody Knows" - 4:12
  9. "There's Too Much to Be Done" - 4:11

Recorded on April 8 (1-5) and June 18 (6-9), 1970.

Personnel

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Tracks 1-5

Tracks 6-9

References

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  1. ^ Billboard Oct 24, 1970
  2. ^ Allmusic Review
  3. ^ Horace Silver discography accessed November 23, 2009.
  4. ^ Allmusic Review, accessed November 23, 2009.