Push Push (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Push Push
Type = studio
Artist = Herbie Mann


Released = 1971
Recorded =
Genre = Jazz, R&B, rock, funk
Length = 48:16
Label = Atlantic
Producer = Arif Mardin
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:fxfyxqwgldhe link]
Last album = "Memphis Two-Step"
(1970)
This album = "Push Push"
(1971)
Next album = "Hold On, I'm Coming"
(1972)

"Push Push" is a 1971 album by jazz flautist Herbie Mann (1930 – 2003), which features Duane Allman. The record explored a range of popular genres, such as R&B, rock and funk music to create what "Allmusic" calls a "generally appealing, melodic and danceable" album with an "impressive crew of musicians." [ [http://www.fye.com/Push-Push-Soul-Jazz_stcVVproductId369652VVcatId458997VVviewprod.htm "Push Push" at fye.com] ]

Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute and was a prominent jazz flautist during the 1960s. By the early 1970s, Mann had a number of songs cross over to the pop charts, which was rather rare for a jazz musician. A 1998 interview reported that "At least 25 Herbie Mann albums have made the top 200 pop charts, success denied most of his jazz peers." [ [http://www.jimnewsom.com/hm-articles.html 1998 interview] ]

Personnel

Other performers on the album included Cornell Dupree, David Spinoza (guitar), Gene Bianca (harp), Richard Tee (piano, electric piano, organ), Chuck Rainey, Jerry Jemmott, Donald "Duck" Dunn (bass), Bernard Purdie, Al Jackson, Jr. (drums), and Ralph MacDonald (percussion). The engineer was Jimmy Douglass and the producer was Turkish-American music producer Arif Mardin (1932 - 2006).

Track listing

# "Push Push"
# "What's Going On"
# "Spirit In The Dark"
# "Man's Hope"
# "If"
# "Never Can Say Goodbye"
# "What'd I Say"
# "Funky Nassau"

ee also

*1971 in music

References