A Thing to Come By

Studio album by

Jimmy McGriff Organ and Blues Band

Released

1969

Recorded

June 17 & 18, 1969 in New York City

Solid State SS-18060

Jimmy McGriff chronology

Step 1
(1968)

A Thing to Come By
(1969)

The Way You Look Tonight
(1969)

A Thing to Come By is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff featuring performances recorded in 1969 and originally released on the Solid State label.^[1]^[2]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook stated "A Thing to Come By is an essential part of the Jimmy McGriff catalog".^[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy McGriff except as indicated

"A Thing to Come By" - 3:55
"Charlotte" - 4:30
"Down Home on the Moon" - 10:02
"Oh Happy Day" (Edwin Hawkins) - 3:13
"Don't Let Me Lose This Dream" (Aretha Franklin, Teddy White) - 5:20
"Up There, Down Here" - 3:00
"A Thing to Come By - Part II - 4:47

Personnel

Jimmy McGriff - piano, organ
Richard "Blue" Mitchell - trumpet
Arthur "Fats" Theus - tenor saxophone
Larry Frazier - guitar
Danny Turner - alto saxophone
Jesse Kilpatrick - drums
[mostly told: Phil Upchurch] - electric bass
Unknown - [?] baritone saxophone

^[4]

References

^ Payne, D., Solid State Records discography accessed April 17, 2015
^ Payne, D., Jimmy McGriff discography accessed April 17, 2015
^ ^a ^b Cook, Stephen. A Thing to Come By – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
^ "Listing published on YouTube". www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEy35mqvJOE. Archived from the original on 2016-06-20. Retrieved 2021-05-29.

Jimmy McGriff

Studio albums

The Big Band (1966)
A Bag Full of Soul (1966)
Cherry (1966)
A Bag Full of Blues (1967)
I've Got a New Woman (1967)
Honey (1968)
The Worm (1968)
Step 1 (1969)
A Thing to Come By (1969)
The Way You Look Tonight (1969)
Electric Funk (1970)
The Dudes Doin' Business (1970)
Soul Sugar (1970)
Something to Listen To (1971)
Groove Grease (1971)
Let's Stay Together (1972)
Fly Dude (1972)
Giants of the Organ Come Together (1973)
The Main Squeeze (1974)
Stump Juice (1975)
The Mean Machine (1976)
Red Beans (1976)
Tailgunner (1977)
City Lights (1981)
Movin' Upside the Blues (1982)
The Groover (1982)
Countdown (1983)
Skywalk (1984)
State of the Art (1985)
Soul Survivors (1986)
The Starting Five (1987)
Steppin' Up (1987)
Blue to the 'Bone (1988)
On the Blue Side (1990)
You Ought to Think About Me (1990)
The Dream Team (1997)
Road Tested (1997)
Straight Up (1998)
Crunch Time (1999)
McGriff's House Party (2000)
Feelin' It (2001)
McGriff Avenue (2002)

Live albums

Black Pearl (1971)
Concert: Friday the 13th – Cook County Jail (1973)
Giants of the Organ in Concert (1973)

v t e Blue Mitchell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Big 6 (1958) Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (with Red and Whitey Mitchell, 1958) Out of the Blue (1959) Blue Soul (1959) Blue's Moods (1960) Smooth as the Wind (1960–61) A Sure Thing (1962) The Cup Bearers (1962) Step Lightly (1963) The Thing to Do (1964) Down with It! (1965) Bring It Home to Me (1966) Boss Horn (1966) Heads Up! (1967) Collision in Black (1968) Bantu Village (1969) Blue Mitchell/Soul Village (1971) Vital Blue (1971) Blues' Blues (1972) The Last Tango = Blues (1973) Graffiti Blues (1973) Many Shades of Blue (1974) Stratosonic Nuances (1975) Funktion Junction (1976) African Violet (1977) Mapenzi (1977) Stablemates (1977) Summer Soft (1977)
With Lou Donaldson	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952) The Time Is Right (1959) Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967) Midnight Creeper (1968) Say It Loud! (1968) Everything I Play Is Funky (1970) Pretty Things (1970)
With Philly Joe Jones	Together! (with Elvin Jones, 1961) Drums Around the World (1959) Showcase (1959) Advance! (1978) Drum Song (1978)
With Sam Jones	The Soul Society (1960) The Chant (1961) Down Home (1962) Something in Common (1974–77) Changes & Things (1977)
With Jimmy McGriff	The Worm (1968) Step 1 (1968) A Thing to Come By (1969) Electric Funk (1969)
With Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away (1959) Finger Poppin' (1959) Horace-Scope (1960) Doin' the Thing (1961) The Tokyo Blues (1962) Silver's Serenade (1963) Song for My Father (1963–64)
With Stanley Turrentine	A Chip off the Old Block (1963) In Memory Of (1964) Rough 'n' Tumble (1966) The Spoiler (1966) A Bluish Bag (1967) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) The Sugar Man (1971)
With others	Portrait of Cannonball (Cannonball Adderley, 1958) Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks, 1960) Street Singer (Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean, 1960) My Kind of Jazz (Ray Charles, 1970) True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Silver Blue (with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Dolo! (Dolo Coker, 1976) California Hard (Dolo Coker, 1976) Junior's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1961) Filthy! (Papa John Creach, 1972) Red's Good Groove (Red Garland, 1962) Green Is Beautiful (Grant Green, 1970) Soul Mist! (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1966) Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961) Montara (Bobby Hutcherson, 1975) The Soul Brotherhood (Charles Kynard, 1969) The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968) Rakin' and Scrapin' (Harold Mabern, 1968) Jazz Blues Fusion (John Mayall, 1971) Ten Years Are Gone (John Mayall, 1973) Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961) Can't Hide Love (Carmen McRae, 1976) Capuchin Swing (Jackie McLean, 1960) Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1960) Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley, 1967) Captain Buckles (David "Fathead" Newman, 1970) Opus De Don (Don Patterson, 1968) Oh Baby! (Big John Patton, 1965) Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960) Images (Sonny Red, 1961) Good Move! (Freddie Roach, 1963) Takin' Care of Business (Charlie Rouse, 1960) Open House (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Sonny Stitt, 1962) Soul Time (Bobby Timmons, 1960) Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick, 1963) The Caribbean Suite (Harold Vick, 1966) Spectrum (Cedar Walton, 1968) The Electric Boogaloo Song (Cedar Walton, 1969) Beyond Mobius (Cedar Walton, 1976) Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1966)