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Various Artists: Blue Funk

CD: Blue Note CDP 7243 5 21152-2

Tracks & Performers (Composers)
1 Who Dun It? - Blue Mitchell (Higgins)
2 Say It Loud (I'm Black And I'm Proud) - Lou Donaldson (Brown, Ellis)
3 Cissy Strut - John Patton (Modeliste, Neville, Nocentelli, Porter)
4 Ease Back - Grant Green (Modeliste, Neville, Nocentelli, Porter)
5 Hunk O' Funk - Jack McDuff (Jackson, McDuff)
6 Tic Tac Toe - Candido (Cropper, Dunn, Jackson, Jones)
7 Down Home Funk - Richard "Groove" Holmes (Irvine)
8 Cantaloupe Woman - Grant Green (Dixon)
9 I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing - Grant Green (Brown)
10 Don't Knock My Love - Ronnie Foster (Pickett, Shapiro)
11 If There's a Hell Below - Lou Donaldson (Mayfield)
12 Bambu - Reuben Wilson (Sparks)
13 Family Affair - Bobby Hutcherson (Stewart)

Hutcherson is on track 13 only

Personnel (Track 13 only)
Blue Mitchell (tp); Thurman Green (tb); Harold Land (ts); Bobby Hutcherson (vib); Reggie Andrews, Clarence McDonald (key); Mike Deasy (g); Arthur Lewis (?); Stix Hooper (d); King Errison (cga, bgo)

Recording Date & Location (Track 13 only)
New York City, NY, 22 December 1971

Notes
"Family Affair" is taken from an unreleased Hutcherson session. Other songs from the session: "Brother Rap" (see Blue Juice, Volume 2) and "Brown-Eyed Woman."

Commentary
Bobby's playing here leaps out; it's as soulful and alive as ever. But he has to cut his way through the slick, overdone production, which mars the final result. I can understand why Hutch elected to keep this one in the can. (It has nothing to do with his playing.) The best tracks on the compilation are Big John Patton's version of the Meters' "Cissy Strut" and Richard Groove Holmes' churning "Down Home Funk."

Track 13 only: