Reggae (album)

Reggae is an album by flautist Herbie Mann with the Tommy McCook Band recorded in London in 1973 and released on the Atlantic label.^[1]

Reggae
Studio album by Herbie Mann
Released	1973
Recorded	1973
Studio	Advision, London
Genre	Jazz
Length	38:44
Label	Atlantic SD 1655
Producer	Geoffrey Haslam
Herbie Mann chronology
London Underground (1973) Reggae (1973) First Light (1973)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars stating, inaccurately: "Despite its title, most of the music on this album is not actually reggae but a mixture of jazz, R&B and pop. Flutist Herbie Mann, guitarists Mick Taylor and Albert Lee and keyboardist Pat Rebillot combine with the eight-piece Tommy McCook band to create some spirited and danceable (if a bit dated) music... The results are fun if not all that substantial".^[2]

Track listing

1. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 7:44
2. "Rivers of Babylon" (Brenton Dowe, Trevor McNaughton) - 4:42
3. "Swinging Shepherd Blues" (Kenny Jacobson, Moe Koffman, Rhoda Roberts) - 8:19
4. "My Girl" (Smokey Robinson, Ronald White) - 17:59

Personnel

• Herbie Mann - flute
• Bobby Ellis - trumpet
• Tommy McCook - tenor saxophone
• Gladstone Anderson - piano
• Winston Wright - organ
• Pat Rebillot - piano, clavinet
• Hux Brown, Rod Bryan, Albert Lee, Mick Taylor - guitar
• Jackie Jackson - bass
• Michael Richard - drums

Technical

• Gary Martin - engineer
• Ahmet Ertegun - executive producer
• Don Brautigam - cover illustration

References

1. Atlantic Records Catalog: 1600 series accessed August 31, 2015
2. Yanow, Scott. Reggae – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 935. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.