It Just Got to Be
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Studio album by The Three Sounds | ||||
Released | June 1963[1] | |||
Recorded | December 13–14, 1960 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 38:27 original LP 47:28 CD reissue | |||
Label | Blue Note BST 84120 | |||
Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
The Three Sounds chronology | ||||
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It Just Got to Be is an album by the jazz group The Three Sounds with performances recorded in 1960. It was released on the Blue Note label in 1963.[2] It was reissued on CD only in Japan, with two bonus tracks.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 3 stars stating, "The performances throughout the record are predictably swinging and enjoyable, even if they find the trio taking no stylistic chances. That lack of adventure doesn't matter, though — the Three Sounds excel at making unpretentious, unabashedly enjoyable mainstream jazz, and there's something endearing about their ability to produce a body of work of consistently high quality".[3]
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Track listing
- All compositions by Gene Harris except as indicated
- "One for Renee" - 3:04
- "Stella by Starlight" (Washington, Young) - 5:32
- "It Just Got to Be" - 5:15
- "If I Were a Bell" (Loesser) - 5:36
- "Blue 'n' Boogie" (Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) - 5:20
- "The Nearness of You" (Carmichael, Washington) - 5:49
- "Real Gene" - 3:35
- "South of the Border" (Kennedy, Carr) - 4:16
Bonus tracks on CD reissue:
- "Girl Next Door" - 4:35
- "This Is the Way 'Tis" - 4:26
Recorded on December 13 (3-4, 8) and December 14 (1-2, 5-7), 1960.
Personnel
- Gene Harris - piano
- Andrew Simpkins - double bass
- Bill Dowdy - drums
References
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albums
- Branching Out (and Nat Adderley, 1958)
- Introducing the 3 Sounds (1958)
- Bottoms Up! (1958–59)
- LD + 3 (and Lou Donaldson, 1959)
- Good Deal (1959)
- Blue Hour (and Stanley Turrentine, 1960)
- Feelin' Good (1960)
- Here We Come (1960)
- It Just Got to Be (1960)
- Moods (1960)
- Hey There (1961)
- Babe's Blues (1961–62)
- Anita O'Day & the Three Sounds (1962)
- Black Orchid (1962)
- Standards (1959/62)
- Blue Genes (1962)
- Out of This World (1962)
- The Three Sounds Play Jazz on Broadway (1962)
- Some Like It Modern (1963)
- Live at the Living Room (1964)
- Beautiful Friendship (1965)
- Three Moods (1965)
- Today's Sounds (1966)
- Vibrations (1966)
- Live at the Lighthouse (1967)
- Coldwater Flat (and Oliver Nelson, 1968)
- Elegant Soul (1968)
- Soul Symphony (1969)
- Live at the 'It Club' (Gene Harris & The Three Sounds, 1970)
- The 3 Sounds (Gene Harris, 1971)
- Gene Harris of the Three Sounds (Gene Harris, 1972)