Reuben Wilson - Got To Get Your Own (Soul/Jazz)

1 What the People Gon' Say

 2 In the Booth, In the Back, In the Corner, In the Dark

 3 Back Rub

 4 Tight Money

 5 Stoned Out Of My Mind

 6 Together (You & Me)

 7 Got to Get Your Own 

 Reuben Wilson is best known for the series of gently grooving soul jazz LPs that he cut for Blue Note in the late `60s and early `70s, but GOT TO GET YOUR OWN, his sole outing for Chess Records' notoriously eccentric Cadet imprint, is arguably the highlight of his catalogue. It's a unique outing that sees Wilson discarding the straight-ahead grooves of his Blue Note material for a more baroque psychedelic sound, featuring fiercely distorted organ workouts and unstoppable ensemble playing from legendary session men like JB saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis and funky drummer Bernard Purdie. A standout funk session from organist Reuben Wilson, a hammond player best known for his Blue Note albums of the early 70s, who steps out wonderfully here in a rare date for Chess Records. The setting is quite unique, a mixture of Wilson's soaring organ