LOU DONALDSON - Sassy Soul Strut (1973) lp | 24bits-192hz | FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Sassy Soul Strut pairs Lou Donaldson with arranger George Butler to create a smooth, unabashedly commercial session some distance removed from the saxophonist's classic soul-jazz efforts. Emphasizing electric instruments and radio-friendly rhythms, the album nevertheless plays to Donaldson's strengths, focusing more on mood and texture and less on funk. Opening with a gutbucket rendition of Quincy Jones immortal "The Streetbeater" (far better known as the theme to television's Sanford and Son), Sassy Soul Strut quickly settles comfortably into a light, accessible mode too lively to dismiss as smooth jazz but too mellow to pass as anything else. Butler's arrangements haven't dated particularly well, but the record's too innocuous and good-natured to qualify as an outright failure. It's simply forgettable, nothing more and nothing less. Jason Ankeny
Tracklist :
1     Sanford And Son Theme 7:02
Quincy Jones    
2     Pillow Talk 3:51
Sylvia Robinson    
3     Sassy Soul Strut 4:37
Lou Donaldson    
4     Good Morning Heartache 2:33
Ervin Drake / Dan Fisher / Irene Higginbotham
5     City, Country, City 9:08
Lou Donaldson    
6     This Is Happiness 5:20
Tadd Dameron    
7     Inner Space 6:52
Lou Donaldson
Credits :
Alto Saxophone – Lou Donaldson
Electric Guitar – David Spinozza, John Tropea
Electric Piano – Horace Ott
Electric Piano, Piano, Organ – Paul Griffin
Producer, Arranged By, Conductor – Horace Ott