Old Feeling | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1991 | |||
Studio | Clinton Recording | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Somethin' Else Blue Note | |||
Producer | Kazunori Sugiyama | |||
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Old Feeling is an album by the American musician George Adams.[1][2] It was released by Somethin' Else and Blue Note Records.[3][4] Adams played the tenor sax; he also sang on some tracks.[2][5]
The album was produced by Kazunori Sugiyama.[6] It contains covers of Charles Mingus's "Better Git Hit in Yo' Soul" and Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are".[7] Jean-Paul Bourelly played guitar on Old Feeling; Hannibal Marvin Peterson played trumpet.[8][9]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [10] |
The Buffalo News | [8] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [5] |
The Indianapolis Star | [11] |
MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide | [12] |
The Chicago Tribune wrote that "a rollicking, raucous spirit energizes this recording."[13] The Toronto Star deemed the album "a rough-and-tumble vintage blast."[7] The Lawrence Journal-World admired the opening track, writing that "Adams wails with a manic spark oscillating somewhere between James Brown r&b and the 'free thing' explosiveness of the 1960s black, avant garde."[3]
The Indianapolis Star stated: "A lapse of intensity comes with the finale, Billy Joel's 'Just the Way You Are', which reverses another cliche—that good jazzmen always redeem cheap tunes."[11] The Buffalo News called Old Feeling "one of the great jazz albums of the year," and praised Adams's "marvelously outsized, earthy gestures."[8] USA Today labeled the band "wild, woolly, roaring, precise, funny, sometimes quite tender and always on fire, no matter the tempo."[14]
AllMusic noted that, "unlike some other avant-gardists who seem to lose their personality and purpose when they play standard material, Adams turns even overplayed songs into his own inventive devices."[10] MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide considered the album "delightfully strange but potent."[12]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Better Git Hit in Yo' Soul" | |
2. | "That Old Feeling" | |
3. | "The Wanderer" | |
4. | "As Time Goes By" | |
5. | "Melody for Monet" | |
6. | "The Cry" | |
7. | "Teamwork" | |
8. | "Just the Way You Are" |