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| 1. | Son of Ice Bag
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| 2. | The Call of the Wild
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| 3. | Think
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| 4. | Three Blind Mice
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| 5. | Slouchin'
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Jazz
Dr. Lonnie Smith - Organ
Billy Bivens - Conga
David "Fathead" Newman - Flute, Sax (Tenor)
Henry "Pucho" Brown - Timbales
Lee Morgan - Trumpet
Lonnie Liston Smith - Guitar, Organ, Vocals
Marion Booker - Drums
Melvin Sparks - Guitar
Noberto Apellaniz - Conga, Percussion
Pucho - Timbales
William Bivens - Conga
Willie Bivins - Conga, Percussion
* Bob Blumenthal - Liner Notes
* Dave Sanders - Engineer
* Forlenza Venosa Associates - Design
* Francis Wolff - Cover Photo, Photography, Producer
* Gordon Jee - Creative Director
* Micaela Boland - Art Direction, Design
* Michael Cuscuna - Reissue Producer
* Rhett Evers - Liner Notes
* Ron McMaster - Digital Transfers
* Rudy Van Gelder - Remastering
Think!, organist Lonnie Smith's 1968 sophomore effort for Blue Note, is easily one of the strongest dates the Hammond B-3 master would produce for the label. Featuring a stellar group of musicians including trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist David Newman, guitarist Melvin Sparks, and drummer Marion Booker, Jr., as well as a three-member Afro-Latin percussion unit led by Henry "Pucho" Brown, Think! is a perfect mix of funky soul and forward-thinking jazz. Kicking things off with Hugh Masekela's instantly memorable "Son of Ice Bag," both Sparks and Newman take searching funk-flow solos while Morgan seems to be remembering a certain Masekela lick he dug. Similarly expansive is the epic and frenetic Afro bliss-out "The Call of the Wild," which finds Newman in a heady, bluesy organ jam freak-out set against "Pucho" Brown's torrid Latin rhythms and Sparks' nasty repeto-funk guitar riff. By the time you get to the title track and realize "Oh, it's that "Think," all you can do is laugh at the utter hipness of it all and take pleasure in the notion that the album is only half over. [The Rudy Van Gelder Edition of Think! features remastered sound by original producer Van Gelder, significantly improving the overall sound quality over the original release.]
---Matt Collar, All Music Guide
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Ballads, Crossover Jazz, Fusion, Hard Bop, Jazz Blues, Jazz-Funk, Post-Bop, Soul-Jazz
Organist Lonnie Smith has often been confused with keyboardist/pianist Lonnie Liston Smith -- and, in fact, more than a few retailers have wrongly assumed that they're one and the same. In the mid-'60s, the Hammond hero earned recognition for his membership in George Benson's classic quartet before going on to play with Lou Donaldson (contributing some memorable solos to the alto saxman's hit 1967 album Alligator Bogaloo) and recording enjoyable dates of his own for Blue Note. For all their accessibility and commercial appeal, funk-influenced Smith sessions like 1968's Think and 1970's Drives showed that he could be quite imaginative. Smith, who later became Dr. Lonnie Smith (for "no particular reason", the same reason he gives for why he always wears a turban), remained an inspired representative of soul-jazz and did some solid work with Donaldson in the '90s.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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