Total Response


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FieldValue
nameTotal Response
typeAlbum
artistHorace Silver Quintet/Sextet With Vocals
coverTotal Response.JPG
releasedApril 1972
recordedNovember 15, 1970 (#1, 2, 6, 9)
January 29, 1971 (#3–5, 7, 8)
studioVan Gelder, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
genreJazz
length40:47
labelBlue Note
BST 84368
producerFrancis Wolff, George Butler
chronologyHorace Silver
prev_titleThat Healin' Feelin'
prev_year1970
next_titleAll
next_year1972
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| name = Total Response | type = Album | artist = Horace Silver Quintet/Sextet With Vocals | cover = Total Response.JPG | alt = | released = April 1972 | recorded = November 15, 1970 (#1, 2, 6, 9) January 29, 1971 (#3–5, 7, 8) | venue = | studio = Van Gelder, Englewood Cliffs, NJ | genre = Jazz | length = 40:47 | label = Blue Note BST 84368 | producer = Francis Wolff, George Butler | chronology = Horace Silver | prev_title = That Healin' Feelin' | prev_year = 1970 | next_title = All | next_year = 1972 Total Response (subtitled The United States of Mind Phase 2) is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, released on the Blue Note label in 1972 and featuring performances by Silver with Cecil Bridgewater, Harold Vick, Richie Resnicoff, Bob Cranshaw and Mickey Roker, with vocals by Salome Bey and Andy Bey. In 2004, it was included as the second of a trilogy of albums compiled on CD as The United States of Mind.

Reception

|rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = The AllMusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine called the album a "sprawling, incoherent, and just plain weird mess of funk, fusion, soul-jazz, African spirituality, and hippie mysticism".

Track listing

All compositions by Horace Silver

  1. "Acid, Pot or Pills" - 4:26
  2. "What Kind of Animal Am I" - 3:38
  3. "Won't You Open up Your Senses" - 3:56
  4. "I've Had a Little Talk" - 3:46
  5. "Soul Searching" - 4:15
  6. "Big Business" - 5:22
  7. "I'm Aware of the Animals Within Me" - 3:45
  8. "Old Mother Nature Calls" - 6:17
  9. "Total Response" - 5:22

Personnel

References

References

  1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=mEUEAAAAMBAJ&dq=horace+84368&pg=PA64 ''Billboard'' Apr 29, 1972]
  2. [http://www.jazzdisco.org/horace-silver/catalog/#blue-note-bst-84368 Horace Silver discography] accessed November 24, 2009.
  3. West, Michael J.. (24 September 2021). "JazzTimes 10: Essential Horace Silver Recordings".
  4. Erlewine, S. T. [{{AllMusic

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