CLIFFORD JORDAN — Soul Fountain (review)

CLIFFORD JORDAN — Soul Fountain album cover Album · 1970 · Funk Jazz Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Mssr_Renard
This album of Jordan must be his least inspiring. I can't say it's really bad, but it's rather easy. No bop here but mostly r&b tunes.

It sounds like a mainstream album and maybe an attempt at a album-hit, but I cannot say it really moves me. The songs are all too short to feature great soloiing or improvisations. It's just a collection of song

The musicians on this album are all highly regarded and especially side two (recorded on a different date with different musicians) saves this album. The composition Retribution (cowritten by Julian Priester and Abbey Lincoln), taken from Lincoln's Straight Ahead album from 1961 is strong.

Maybe it's because I'm not a big fan of James Brown, and 'I Feel Good' is an okay song, but Clifff can do so much better than this.

The album-cover I like and I like Senor Blues of Horace Silver, so at least this albums is not a total loss.

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