{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = More Soul | type = studio | artist = Hank Crawford | cover = More_soul_hank_crawford_250px.jpg|border=yes | alt = | released = {{Start date|1961}} | recorded = {{Start date|1960|10|07}} | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = {{Duration|m=38|s=10}} | label = Atlantic | producer = Nesuhi Ertegun | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = The Soul Clinic | next_year = 1961 }} '''''More Soul''''' is an album by jazz saxophonist Hank Crawford. Atlantic Records released the album in 1961.<ref name="discogs" /> ''More Soul'' is Crawford's first album as a leader,<ref name="jurek" /> recorded on October 7, 1960<ref name="jazzdisco" /> while he was the music director in Ray Charles' group.<ref name="gross" /> Charles provided the arrangement for the track "The Story."<ref name="jurek" />
== Critical reception == {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="jurek" /> | rev2 = ''Penguin Guide to Jazz'' | rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="penguin" /> |rev3 = DownBeat |rev3score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Gleason">{{cite magazine|last=Gleason|first=Ralph J.|date=25 May 1961|title=Review of ''More Soul''|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/DownBeat/IDX/60s/Down-Beat-1961-05-25-28-11-IDX-28.pdf|magazine=DownBeat|access-date=22 November 2023}}</ref> }} Thom Jurek of allmusic gives the album a three-and-a-half star rating (of a possible five), noting that "[t]he material is swinging, front-ended, soul-inflected hard bop with tunes arranged by Crawford" and that "Crawford's tone as a soloist is sweet yet edgy and raw, full of emotion and warmth."<ref name="jurek" /> ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' describes the album as "sonorous and churchy in the Brother Ray mode…" and gives the album a three-star rating (of a possible four).<ref name="penguin" />
In his five-star 1961 review for ''DownBeat'', Ralph J. Gleason praised the album, saying, "I played it more than 20 times in the first 48 hours it was in my possession." He called it "one of the very best small-band albums in years and by all odds the best one this year."<ref name="Gleason" />
== Track listing == All titles arranged by Hank Crawford, except where indicated.<ref name="jurek"/> {{Track listing | title1 = Boo's Tune | writer1 = Moody | length1 = 6:41 | title2 = Angel Eyes | writer2 = Dennis, Brent | length2 = 6:34 | title3 = Four Five Six | writer3 = Crawford | length3 = 5:09 | title4 = The Story | writer4 = Moody | length4 = 4:43 | note4 = Charles, arr.<ref name="jurek"/> | title5 = Dat Dere | writer5 = Timmons, Brown | length5 = 4:53 | title6 = Misty | writer6 = Garner, Burke | length6 = 5:34 | title7 = Sister Sadie | writer7 = Silver | length7 = 4:36 }}
== Personnel == * Hank Crawford – alto saxophone, piano * David "Fathead" Newman – tenor saxophone * Leroy "Hog" Cooper – baritone saxophone * Phillip Guilbeau – trumpet * John Hunt – flugelhorn, trumpet * Edgar Willis – bass * Milt Turner – drums
== Production == * Nesuhi Ertegun – producer * Tom Dowd – engineer * Phil Iehle – engineer * Gary Kramer – liner notes * Lee Friedlander – photography * Loring Eutemey – cover design
== References == {{Refbegin}} {{Reflist|refs= * <ref name="discogs">{{Discogs release|release=838347|name=More Soul|type=album}}</ref> * <ref name="gross">{{cite interview |last=Crawford |first=Hank |interviewer=Terry Gross |title=Hank Crawford, Memphis Rhythm King |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=100139098 |work=Fresh Air |publisher=NPR |date=2 February 2009 | orig-date=1998 |accessdate=24 April 2014 |quote=The musical turning point in his life came in 1958 when Ray Charles asked him to play baritone in his band. Crawford eventually switched to alto and in 1960 became the band's music director. Three years later, he left Ray Charles to lead his own band. }}</ref> * <ref name="jazzdisco">{{Cite web | title=Atlantic Records Catalog: 1300 series | url=http://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/catalog-1300-series/#1356 | work=Jazz Discography Project | accessdate=24 April 2014 }}</ref> * <ref name="jurek">{{AllMusic | last=Jurek | first=Thom | class=album | tab=review | id=r137157 | label=More Soul: Review | accessdate=March 31, 2011 }}</ref> * <ref name="penguin">{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|orig-date = 1992|edition = 9th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0|pages = 316–317}}</ref> }} * {{AllMusic | class=album | tab=credits| id=r137157 | label=More Soul: Credits| accessdate=March 31, 2011 }} {{Refend}}
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