Heavy Sounds

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Heavy Sounds
Heavy Sounds.jpg
Studio album by
Elvin Jones & Richard Davis
Released1967
RecordedJune 19 & 20, 1967
GenreJazz
Length41:21
LabelImpulse!
ProducerBob Thiele
Elvin Jones chronology
Midnight Walk
(1966) 		Heavy Sounds
(1967) 		Live at the Village Vanguard
(1968)
Richard Davis chronology
Heavy Sounds
(1967) 		Muses for Richard Davis
(1969)

Heavy Sounds is an album by American jazz drummer Elvin Jones and bassist Richard Davis recorded in 1967 and released on the Impulse! label.[1]

Reception[]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "The music is essentially advanced hard bop but is not all that essential."[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic3/5 stars[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide4/5 stars[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings2/4 stars[4]

Track listing[]

  1. "Raunchy Rita" (Frank Foster) - 11:35
  2. "Shiny Stockings" (Foster) - 5:13
  3. "M.E." (Billy Greene) - 2:40
  4. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 11:37
  5. "Elvin's Guitar Blues" (Elvin Jones) - 3:29
  6. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 7:02
  • Recorded at RCA Recording Studio, New York City, on June 19 (#4) & 20, 1967.

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Elvin Jones discography accessed January 18, 2011
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Yanow, Scott. Heavy Sounds – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 59. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 793. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.


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