''Natural Soul'' (subtitled ''Natural Woman'') is an album by American saxophonist

Buddy Terry Edlin "Buddy" Terry (January 30, 1941 - November 29, 2019) was an American jazz musician and alto/tenor sax player. He was born in Newark, New Jersey. In the 1960s and 1970s Terry made albums for Prestige Records and Mainstream Records. He played w ...

recorded in 1967 and released on the

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label.Prestige Records catalog: 7500 series
accessed October 1, 2015

Reception

The

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site awarded the album 3 stars.Allmusic listing
accessed October 1, 2015

Track listing

All compositions by Buddy Terry except as noted # " A Natural Woman" (

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) – 3:30 # "Natural Soul (Sunday Go to Meeting Blues)" – 6:00 # "Pedro, the One Arm Bandit" – 5:37 # "Don't Be So Mean" – 5:35 # "The Revealing Time" – 12:35 # "Quiet Days and Lonely Nights" – 7:35

Personnel

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tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

, flute * Larry Young – piano,

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Eddie Gladden Eddie Gladden (December 6, 1937 – September 30, 2003) was an American jazz drummer. Career Gladden played professionally from 1962 in his hometown of Newark. In 1972 he began working with James Moody. During the rest of his career he worked ...

– drums *

Woody Shaw Woody Herman Shaw Jr. (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger, band leader, and educator. Shaw is widely known as one of the 20th century's most important and influentia ...

– trumpet,

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...

(tracks 2, 4 & 5) * Joe Thomas – tenor saxophone, flute (track 1) *Robbie Porter –

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass saxophone, bass. It is the lowe ...

(tracks 1 & 2) * Jiggs Chase – organ (track 1) *Wally Richardson – guitar (tracks 1 & 2) * Jimmy Lewis – electric bass (track 1) *The Terry Girls – vocals (track 1)

References

{{Authority control Prestige Records albums Buddy Terry albums 1968 albums Albums produced by Cal Lampley Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio