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Reception

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reviewer Bill Dahl stated "This hugely influential jazz-laced R&B quartet plays their classic two-part instrumentals and several more groovers".

Track listing

# " Honky Tonk (Part 1)" (Bill Doggett, Billy Butler, Clifford Scott, Shep Shepherd) – 3:04 # "Honky Tonk (Part 2)" (Doggett, Butler, Scott, Shepherd) – 2:36 # "

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) – 2:44 # "Honky Tonk Number Three" (Doggett, Butler, Scott, Shepherd) – 2:44 # "Leaps and Bounds" (Scott, Ellis, Butler, Shepherd) – 5:30 *Recorded in Cincinnati, OH on May 19, 1954 (track 4), September 18, 1956 (track 11), October 12, 1956 (tracks 5 & 10) and October 29, 1956 (tracks 6-8), and New York City, NY on January 12, 1956 (track 9), June 16, 1956 (tracks 1-3)

Personnel

– organ * Clifford Scott – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone (tracks 1-3 & 5-11) *Irving "Skinny" Brown – tenor saxophone (track 4) *Clifford Bush (track 4), Billy Butler (tracks 1-3 & 5-11), John Faire (tracks 5-8, 10 & 11) – guitar *Edwyn Conley (tracks 5-8 & 10), Al Lucas (track 9), Carl Pruitt (tracks 1-3), Clarence Mack (track 4) - bass *

Shep Shepherd Berisford Shepherd, professionally known as Shep Shepherd (January 19, 1917 – November 25, 2018), was an American multi-instrumental jazz musician, composer and singer. Beginnings Shepherd's father Charlie Shepherd was an engineer from the Wes ...

– drums * Tommy Brown – vocals, maracas, claves (tracks 6-8)

References

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