Wild Horses Rock Steady is an album by jazz organist Johnny Hammond recorded for the Kudu label (a subsidiary of CTI Records) in 1971.Payne, D. Kudu Records discography accessed April 30, 2013Johnny "Hammond" Smith discography accessed April 30, 2013
Reception
The Allmusic site awarded the album 3½ stars stating "Johnny Hammond's 1972 soul-jazz beauty is another stunning example of great creativity at Creed Taylor's Kudu label through the mid-'70s".Jurek, T. Allmusic listing accessed April 30, 2013.
Track listing "Rock Steady" (Aretha Franklin) – 6:48 "Who Is Sylvia?" (Galt MacDermot) – 7:25 "Peace Train" (Cat Stevens) – 4:31 "I Don't Know How to Love Him" (Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber) – 7:35 "It's Impossible" (Armando Manzanero, Sid Wayne) – 5:27 "Wild Horses" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 6:26
Personnel Johnny Hammond - organ, electric piano Al DeRisi, Snooky Young - trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 3, 4 & 6) Wayne Andre - trombone (tracks 4 & 6) Grover Washington, Jr. - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone (tracks 1–3, 5 & 6) Harold Vick - tenor saxophone (tracks 3 & 6) Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone (tracks 3, 4 & 6) George Benson (tracks 4 & 5), Eric Gale (tracks 1, 2 & 6), Bob Mann (tracks 3, 4 & 6), Melvin Sparks (tracks 1, 4 & 6) - guitar Ron Carter - double bass, electric bass Billy Cobham (tracks 2–6), Bernard Purdie (track 1) - drums Omar Clay (tracks 1 & 2), Airto Moreira (tracks 1, 2 & 4–6) - percussion Julius Brand, Paul Gershman, Emanuel Green, Julius Held, Harry Katzman, Joe Malin, Gene Orloff, Max Polikoff - violin (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5) Bob James - arranger, conductor
Production Creed Taylor – producer Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
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