Drives (Lonnie Smith album)

Drives
Studio album by Lonnie Smith
Released	1970
Recorded	January 2, 1970
Studio	Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz
Length	35:46
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Francis Wolff
Lonnie Smith chronology
Move Your Hand (1969) Drives (1970) Live at Club Mozambique (1970)

Drives is an album by American organist Lonnie Smith recorded in 1970 and released on the Blue Note label.^[1]

Reception[]

The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Lonnie Smith had the raw skills, imagination, and versatility to play burning originals, bluesy covers of R&B and pop, or skillful adaptations of conventional jazz pieces and show tunes. Why he never established himself as a consistent performer remains a mystery, but this 1970 reissue shows why he excited so many people during his rise".^[2]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Lonnie Smith except as indicated

1. "Twenty-Five Miles" - 5:36
2. "Spinning Wheel" (David Clayton-Thomas) - 7:30
3. "Seven Steps to Heaven" (Miles Davis, Victor Feldman) - 5:43
4. "Psychedelic Pi" - 6:30
5. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (Don Kirkpatrick, Keith Knox) - 10:46

• Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on January 2, 1970

Personnel[]

• Lonnie Smith - organ
• Dave Hubbard - tenor saxophone
• Ronnie Cuber - baritone saxophone
• - guitar
• Joe Dukes - drums

Uses in other media[]

Alternative hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest sampled the drum break to Smith's cover of "Spinning Wheel" in their 1990 song "Can I Kick It?", off their album People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm.

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