Peak chart positions : KOR (Gaon Music Charts) JPN (Oricon) TW (Taiwan) US World (Billboard Album) #6.

The 3 Sounds is an album by American pianist Gene Harris recorded in 1971 and released on the Blue Note label. Although it is titled after Harris' group The Three Sounds the album is usually recognised as a solo effort as none of the other original members of the group participated in the recording. All tracks written by Monk Higgins except as indicated.

It Just Got to Be (1960) Contents. overall the album has a warm, relaxed vibe that makes the romanticism particularly welcoming. Now's the Time" (Parker) - 5:43. Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 5:34. Here We Come" (Gene Harris) - 4:36. Just Squeeze Me" (Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines) - 4:20

Home The Three Sounds Catalog - album index, Discography - session index. The Three Sounds Catalog. The 3 Sounds (Blue Note BLP 1600). Gene Harris, piano; Andrew Simpkins, bass; Bill Dowdy, drums. Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, September 16, 1958. Gene Harris And The Three Sounds - Live At The 'It Club', Volume 2 (Blue Note 7243 5 23997 2 7). Gene Harris, piano; Henry Franklin, bass, electric bass, sand blocks, jawbone bass, electric bass Carl Burnett, drums, congas, tambourine drums Monk Higgins, cabasa, claves, jawbone, vibraslap. You Got To Play The Game. United Artists Studios, Los Angeles, CA, August 3, 1971.

From 1956 to 1970, he played in The Three Sounds trio with bassist Andy Simpkins and drummer Bill Dowdy. He was mostly retired to Boise, Idaho when Ray Brown convinced him to go back on tour in the early 1980s. He played with the Ray Brown Trio and then led his own groups, recording mostly on Concord Records, until his death from kidney failure in 2000. Gene's Ode to Billy Joe is known as a jazz classic. View full artist profile. Play all. The Three Sounds.

Here is something really special for the weekend. But remember, brothers and sisters, you can still stand tall. Just be thankful for what you’ve got. -– It’s also worth listening the killer 12 inch version of this classic song and check you tube for the disco version as well.

The Three Sounds song "Put On Train", from the 1971 Gene Harris album The 3 Sounds was featured as the prominent background sample in the hip-hop group Beastie Boys song "What Comes Around" on their 1989 album Paul's Boutique. It previously stated here that this sample came from the Three Sounds album Live at the It Club, recorded in 1970, however this was not released (on Live at the It Club Vol. 2) until 2000. 1958: Introducing the 3 Sounds (Blue Note). 1958: Introducing the 3 Sounds Vol. 2 (Blue Note)  . 1960: It Just Got to Be (Blue Note). 1960: Blue Hour (Blue Note) with Stanley Turrentine. 1961: Here We Come (Blue Note).

It sounds like you’re lying in a field somewhere with somebody who you’re crazy about, or floating down a river on a summer’s day. Patrice Rushen: Number One, 1982. Chosen by Róisín Murphy. Music sounds and feels different outside in nature than it does in a room. It’s got one of the all-time great intros from any track ever. The whole band is going at the beginning and it just keeps going up and up and up, and then it just goes into the track. It gives you a real, tangible lift. The song has this incredibly light touch – I associate these light, bouncy grooves with summer. Megan Thee Stallion is a female rapper from Texas and this is my favourite track from the album she dropped a few months ago. It’s a strip-club song: my friends and I twerk to it. Every single party, it’s guaranteed to get the girls moving.