BOBBY TIMMONNS (1966) The Soul Man! | Jazz | Funk / Soul | Soul Jazz | Hard Bop | Full Album

The Soul Man! by Bobby Timmons Prestige (PR 7465 / PRST 7465 / 7465) Robert Henry Timmons (December 19, 1935 – March 1, 1974) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was a sideman in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers for two periods (July 1958 to September 1959; February 1960 to June 1961), between which he was part of Cannonball Adderley’s band. Several of Timmons’ compositions written when part of these bands – including “Moanin’“, “Dat Dere“, and “This Here“ – enjoyed commercial success and brought him more attention. In the early and mid-1960s he led a series of piano trios that toured and recorded extensively. Timmons was strongly associated with the soul jazz style that he helped initiate. This link to apparently simple writing and playing, coupled with drug and alcohol addiction, led to a decline in his career. Timmons died, aged 38, from cirrhosis. Several critics have commented that his contribution to jazz remains undervalued. SOUL FUNK PLAYLIST JAZZ MUSIC PLAYLIST FULL MUSIC PLAYLISTS Publication date: 1966 Topics: Jazz, Funk / Soul, Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop, Modal Digitizing sponsor: Kahle-Austin Foundation Contributor: Internet Archive Language: English Tracklist: 1. Cut Me Loose Charlie 2. Tom Thumb 3. Ein Bahn Strasse (One Way Street) 4. Damned If I Know 5. Tenaj 6. Little Waltz Timmons wrote “a steady stream of infectious funky tunes“, stated dismissed the idea that he was deliberately a composer: “I’m a dilettante as a composer. I have never consciously sat down and tried to write a song.“ He stated that his method of composing a new song might involve “whistling, playing around with the notes, or at a club. I’ll tell one musician to play this note, another that note, and we kick it around.“ One account of the creation of “Moanin’“ was given by Golson: Timmons had the opening eight bars, which he often played between tunes, but formed the complete song only after Golson encouraged him to add a bridge. Tootie Heath reported that, when they were on tour and Timmons was addicted to heroin, the pianist would routinely lie and sometimes pull out a knife to threaten people. Carter, the bassist from that tour, stated that Timmons offered his bandmates a lot of encouragement to experiment and improve from performance to performance, and that he “was a really multi-talented person and he was just a real sweetheart, a sweetheart of a man.“ In Golson’s words, Timmons “had no ego about him, [...] He was always upbeat, never downbeat, and he never maligned anybody unless it was in a humorous way. Subscribe to my channel and share culture DAD´S A SOUL MAN 🔘 LIKE IT ✔ 🔘 SUBSCRIBE ✔ 🔘 COMMENT ✔ 🔘 SHARE ✔ ╔══╦╦╦╗╔══╦═╦═╦╦╗╔═╦══╦═╗ ║══╣║║╚╣══╣╔╣╬╠╣╚╣╦╩╗╔╣╦╝ ╠══║║║╬╠══║╚╣╗╣║╬║╩╗║║║╩╗ ╚══╩═╩═╩══╩═╩╩╩╩═╩═╝╚╝╚═╝ Dad’s a Soul Man believes this album is in the public domain. Copyright is an important issue for us. If you think your copyright is being infringed, please email us so we can handle it directly. #jazzmusic #souljazz #pianist #composer #ArtBlakey #JazzMessengers #CannonballAdderley #Moanin #DatDere #ThisHere #pianotrio #soulful #drugaddiction #alcoholaddiction #undervalued #PrestigeRecords #1960smusic #TheSoulMan