Face to Face
by Baby Face Willette
- Type: Album
- Released: July 1961
- Label: Blue Note
- Country: United States
- Length: 55:03
- Community rating: 3.97/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Organist 'Baby Face' Willette's debut album for Blue Note Records features a quartet including Grant Green on guitar and Fred Jackson on drums. The session highlights his gospel-inflected approach to the Hammond organ, yielding a deeply rhythmic, hard-swinging set indicative of the era's soul jazz movement.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, improvisation, party, rhythmic
Tracklist
- Swingin' At Sugar Ray's (6:35)
- Goin' Down (7:24)
- Whatever Lola Wants (7:21)
- Face To Face (6:17)
- Somethin' Strange (6:42)
- High 'N Low (7:07)
- Face To Face (6:52)
- Somethin' Strange (6:41)
Credits
- Baby Face Willette - primary artist, organ, written-by
- Reid Miles - design [cover]
- Ben Dixon - drums
- Grant Green - guitar
- Robert Levin - liner notes
- Francis Wolff - photography by [cover photo]
- Alfred Lion - producer
- Rudy Van Gelder - recorded by
- Fred Jackson - tenor saxophone
- Frank Loesser - written by [miscredited]
- Jerry Ross - written-by [uncredited]
- Richard Adler - written-by [uncredited]
- 'Baby Face' Willette - Primary Artist