{{about|the album by Andy Bey|the philosophy book|Edmund Husserl}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Experience and Judgment | type = studio | artist = Andy Bey | cover = Experience and Judgement.jpg | alt = | released = 1974 | recorded = July 26 and September 19, 1973<ref name="Atlanticbey">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/catalog-1600-series/#sd-1654 Atlantic Records Catalog: 1600 series] accessed September 14, 2015</ref> | studio = Regent Sound Studios, New York City | genre = Soul-funk, jazz | length = 41:43 | label = Atlantic | producer = William S. Fischer | chronology = Andy Bey | prev_title = 'Round Midnight | prev_year = 1965 | next_title = As Time Goes By | next_year = 1991 }}
'''''Experience and Judgment''''' is an album by vocalist and pianist Andy Bey recorded in 1973 and released on the Atlantic label.<ref name="Atlanticbey"/>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }} AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars, with its review by Rob Theakston stating: "It's soul soothing music that's been played with great reverence by the rare soul and funk community for years and rightly so, as Bey captures the essence of the soul world brilliantly, and fuses it into something that is uniquely his own".<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Rob |last=Theakston |class=album |id=mw0000046451 |title=''Experience and Judgment'' – Review |accessdate=September 14, 2015}}</ref>
== Track listing == Information based on the album's liner notes. All compositions by Andy Bey except as indicated.<ref name="EJAndy">Bey, Andy. ''Experience and Judgement'' (Album Notes). Atlantic. 1974.</ref>
# "Celestial Blues" – 3:24 # "Experience" – 2:57 # "Judgment" – 2:58 # "I Know This Love Can't Be Wrong" (Pat Evans, Bill Fischer) – 4:22 # "Hibiscus" – 4:39 # "You Should've Seen the Way" (Evans, Fischer) – 2:31 # "Tune Up" – 4:11 # "Rosemary Blue" (Howard Greenfield, Neil Sedaka) – 3:24 # "Being Uptight" – 3:05 # "A Place Where Love Is" (Evans, Fischer) – 4:38 # "Trust Us to Find the Way" (Fischer) – 2:39 # "The Power of My Mind" (Evans, Fischer) – 2:55
== Personnel == Information based on the Atlantic Records Jazz Disco Archives<ref name="Atlanticbey"/> and the album's Liner Notes.<ref name="EJAndy"/> *Andy Bey – vocals (all tracks), acoustic piano (2–3, 8–9) *Wilbur Bascomb – electric bass (all tracks) *Selwart Clarke – violin, viola (1, 4–7, 10–12) *George Davis – additional guitar (all tracks), guitar solo (4, 7, 9) *Bill Fischer – percussion (all tracks), electric piano, organ, harpsichord, synthesizer (1, 4–7, 10–12), additional keyboards (2–3, 8–9) *Richard Resnicoff – guitar solo (3), additional guitar (2–3, 8–9) *Buddy Williams – drums (1, 4–7, 10–12) *Jimmy Young – drums (2–3, 8–9)
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