Artist: Pete Yellin
Album: It's the Right Thing
Genre: Jazz-Funk
Label: P-Vine Records
Released: 1973/2007
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- You Are the Sunshine of My Life (4:25)
- Norma (5:41)
- It's the Right Thing (9:27)
- Tojo (6:32)
- My Friend (5:29)
- Softly as in the Morning Sunrise (5:32)
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- Personnel:
- Pete Yellin - alto saxophone, flute
- Mario Rivera - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute
- Barry Rogers - trombone
- Hal Galper - electric piano
- Jack Wilkins, Roland Prince - acoustic guitar
- Clint Houston - acoustic bass, Fender bass
- Darryl Washington, David Lee Jr. - drums
- Lawrence Killian - congas
- Angel Allende - percussion
It's the Right Thing pairs saxophonist Pete Yellin with electric pianist Hal Galper for a shimmering set of laser-focused jazz-funk grooves. Yellin solos on both alto and flute, and his lighter-than-air tone is perfectly complemented by Galper's warm, rich support--for all the mainstream appeal of the production, however, darker undercurrents ripple below the surface of the melodies, enriching the scope and depth of the performance as a whole. Like so many Mainstream Records sessions from the mid-Seventies, much of the material originates from the charts, most notably a lovely cover of Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," but It's the Right Thing never veers too close to pop for its own good--righteous stuff.
Review by Jason Ankeny