******************************************************************************* Reuben Wilson - Set Us Free (1971) ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type.................: Music Platform.............: any Compression Format...: RAR File Validation......: SFV Audio Format.........: Lossless Ripper...............: N/A - lossless webstream rip Encoder..............: .wav > .flac Hz...................: 48,000 Channels.............: Stereo Source...............: Tidal Music Service ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted to............: a.b.sounds.lossless.jazz News Server..........: Supernews Posted on............: 2/15/2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another wonderful Reuben Wilson soul/jazz mixer here. As with his other early stuff, a lot of different influences swirling around in the soup and yet he puts his own stamp on it. The last posting I found for this went back a dozen years ago and I couldn't grab it off Supernews' server. I'm guessing after this many years it's probably gone to binary heaven on most other servers too. So I'll put it up again for anyone who wants it. This is another one of those lossless audio stream rips from a Tidal music service subscription of mine. The stream was CD quality, according to Tidal service. Rip was done using an Asus Xonar DG sound card. Wave editor was Cool Edit Pro using 48k/16 bit settings. No other alterations were performed, other than what follows. I totally silenced any system noise between tracks with the editor. The track timings will be fairly close to match that of the original release, but they are by no means perfect. Since this is a rip from an audio stream (and not a CD), no .cue or .log files are available. Because of this, it is probably not a release a hard core collector will want in their library. Certainly good enough for the average listener, though. Tracks are tagged and I have info in the comments section about the source and .wav gathering, just to keep the digital gene pool organized. If possible I'll try to include some artwork with it. Here's my way of paying it forward after leeching more stuff than I can count from the binaries over the years. Enjoy it, it's a great old time-warper. - mm Here's the Wiki on it: Released 1971 Recorded July 23, 1971 Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ Genre Jazz Length 31:36 Label Blue Note Producer George Butler The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "it's a wildly textured and seamless aural meld of gritty B-3 jams, smooth yet psychedelic soul, rock, pop, and funk... somehow, this ambitious, lushly orchestrated album not only sounds current, but still ahead of its time. Highly recommended". The song "We're in Love" has been sampled multiple times, most famously by DJ Premier on Nas' 1994 debut album Illmatic in the song "Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park)". It was also sampled in the song "I Ain't the Damn One" by rapper Scientifik. Allmusic 4/5 stars Track listing: All compositions by Reuben Wilson except where noted "Set Us Free" (Eddie Harris) - 5:10 "We're in Love" - 3:30 "Sho-Nuff Mellow" - 4:34 "Mr. Big Stuff" (Joseph Broussard, Carol Washington, Ralph Williams) - 4:36 "Right on with This Mess" (W. Marcus Bey) - 4:32 "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" (Marvin Gaye) - 3:41 "Tom's Thumb" - 5:33 Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on July 23, 1971. Personnel Reuben Wilson - organ Jerome Richardson - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone Eugene Bianco - harp David Spinozza - guitar, electric sitar Richard Davis - bass Jimmy Johnson - drums Ray Armando - conga Gordon "Specs" Powell - percussion Wade Marcus - arranger Mildred Brown, Rosalyn Brown, Naomi Thomas - vocals (tracks 2, 4 & 6) Jimmy Briggs - vocal arranger (tracks 2, 4 & 6) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generated with Cool NFO Creator - http://fly.to/coolbeans -------------------------------------------------------------------------------