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Keep Your Soul Together

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Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]
DownBeat[3]

Keep Your Soul Together is an album recorded in 1973 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was his fifth studio album released on Creed Taylor's CTI label, and features performances by Hubbard, Junior Cook, George Cables, Aurell Ray, Kent Brinkley, Ron Carter, Ralph Penland and Juno Lewis.

Reception

Eric Kriss gave the album 5 stars in his DownBeat review.[3] Kriss wrote of the album, "It’s represen­tative of the music Hubbard is playing live and it illustrates why his influence has been so deeply felt".[3] Kriss also singled out the contributions of Cables and Cook.[3]

Track listing

  1. "Brigitte" - 9:10
  2. "Keep Your Soul Together" - 9:55
  3. "Spirits of Trane" - 9:10
  4. "Destiny's Children" - 10:20
  5. "Keep Your Soul Together" - 14:20 [CD bonus track]
All compositions by Freddie Hubbard.

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Keep Your Soul Together at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 106. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ^ a b c d Kriss, Eric (March 28, 1974). "Review "Keep Your Soul Together"". DownBeat. 41 (6): 30.