''Drives'' is an album by American organist
Lonnie Smith Lonnie Smith may refer to:
* Lonnie Smith (baseball) (born 1955), American baseball player
* Lonnie Smith (boxer) (born 1962), American boxer
* Lonnie Smith (organist) (1942–2021), American organist
* Lonnie Liston Smith (born 1940), American jaz ...
recorded in 1970 and released on the
Blue Note
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label.
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accessed November 24, 2010
Reception
The
Allmusic
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review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Lonnie Smith had the raw skills, imagination, and versatility to play burning originals, bluesy covers of R&B and pop, or skillful adaptations of conventional jazz pieces and show tunes. Why he never established himself as a consistent performer remains a mystery, but this 1970 reissue shows why he excited so many people during his rise".
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Track listing
:''All compositions by Lonnie Smith except as indicated''
# "Twenty-Five Miles" - 5:36
# "Spinning Wheel" (
David Clayton-Thomas
David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry Thomsett, 13 September 1941) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas has been inducte ...
) - 7:30
# "Seven Steps to Heaven" (
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of music ...
,
Victor Feldman
Victor Stanley Feldman (7 April 1934 – 12 May 1987) was an English jazz musician who played mainly piano, vibraphone, and percussion. He began performing professionally during childhood, eventually earning acclaim in the UK jazz scene as ...
) - 5:43
# "Psychedelic Pi" - 6:30
# "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (
Don Kirkpatrick, Keith Knox) - 10:46
*Recorded at
Rudy Van Gelder Studio
The Van Gelder Studio is a recording studio at 445 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, United States. Following the use of his parents' home at 25 Prospect Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey, for the original studio, Rudy Van Gelder (1924†...
, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on January 2, 1970
Personnel
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Lonnie Smith Lonnie Smith may refer to:
* Lonnie Smith (baseball) (born 1955), American baseball player
* Lonnie Smith (boxer) (born 1962), American boxer
* Lonnie Smith (organist) (1942–2021), American organist
* Lonnie Liston Smith (born 1940), American jaz ...
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organ
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* Organ (biology), a part of an organism
Musical instruments
* Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone
** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument
** Hammond ...
*Dave Hubbard -
tenor saxophone
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Ronnie Cuber
Ronald Edward Cuber (December 25, 1941 – October 7, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. He also played in Latin, pop, rock, and blues sessions. In addition to his primary instrument, baritone sax, he played tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet ...
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baritone saxophone
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*
Larry McGee
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Larry may refer to the following:
People Arts and entertainment
*Larry D. Alexander, American artist/writer
*Larry Boone, ...
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guitar
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*Joe Dukes -
drums
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Uses in other media
Alternative hip-hop group
A Tribe Called Quest
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sampled the drum break to Smith's cover of "
Spinning Wheel
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" in their 1990 song "
Can I Kick It?
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", off their album
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
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.
References
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Blue Note Records albums
Lonnie Smith (organist) albums
1970 albums
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio
Albums produced by Francis Wolff