Soul Box
Studio album by
Grover Washington Jr.
Released1973
RecordedMarch 1973
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
GenreJazz
Length33:00 Soul Box Vol. 1
35:18 Soul Box Vol. 2
68:18 Verve CD
LabelKudu Records
KU-12/13
ProducerCreed Taylor
Grover Washington Jr. chronology
All the King's Horses
(1972)		 Soul Box
(1973)		 Mister Magic
(1975)
Alternative cover
Verve CD reissue
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]

Soul Box is the third studio album by American saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. The project was originally divided in two LPs, both released in 1973 on Kudu Records with quite identical covers as Soul Box Vol. 1 (KU-12) and Soul Box Vol. 2 (KU-13), then issued as a 2-LP set as KUX-1213. Both albums were recorded during March 1973 with the same personnel. With the rising of CD's Soul Box Vol. 1 & Soul Box Vol. 2 were reissued on CD by Motown in the early 1990s. Unfortunately Vol. 2 was mastered incorrectly with a totally wrong track separation. Original tracks #1 + #2 were combined into 1 single track of 17 minutes, track #3 was cut as track #2 and track #4 was cut as track #3. Subsequently a totally wrong printing on the CD and the back cover of the CD was performed: The CD contained & listed only 3 tracks. The printed titles were not matching the corresponding tracks and were stated with wrong durations, not matching the original songs of the LP. It took until 2008, when the two volumes were released on one CD by Verve/GRP Records to get the tracks right again with their track separations and title durations back to the original recordings from the Kudu LP's.

Track listing

Soul Box Vol. 1

  1. "Aubrey" (David Gates) – 3:44
  2. "Masterpiece" (Norman Whitfield) – 13:20
  3. "Trouble Man" (Marvin Gaye) – 15:56

Soul Box Vol. 2

  1. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder) – 6:03
  2. "Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) – 11:11
  3. "Medley: Easy Living/Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger)/(Everett Robbins, Porter Grainger) – 9:56
  4. "Taurian Matador" (Billy Cobham Jr.) – 8:08

Motown 2*CD reissue

Soul Box Vol. 1

  1. "Aubrey" (David Gates) – 3:44
  2. "Masterpiece" (Norman Whitfield) – 13:22
  3. "Trouble Man" (Marvin Gaye) – 15:54

Soul Box Vol. 2 (with incorrect track mastering & listing)

  1. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder) – 17:23
  2. "Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) – 9:59
  3. "Medley: Easy Living/'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do/Taurian Matador" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger)/(Everett Robbins, Porter Grainger/Billy Cobham Jr.) – 12:10


Verve 1*CD reissue

  1. "Aubrey" (David Gates) – 3:44
  2. "Masterpiece" (Norman Whitfield) – 13:20
  3. "Trouble Man" (Marvin Gaye) – 15:56
  4. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Wonder) – 6:03
  5. "Don't Explain" (Herzog Jr., Holiday) – 11:11
  6. "Medley: Easy Living/Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do" (Robin, Rainger)/(Everett Robbins, Grainger) – 9:56
  7. "Taurian Matador" (Billy Cobham Jr.) – 8:08

Personnel

Band

Brass Section

Woodwind Section

Strings

  • Seymour Barab, Charles McCracken and George Ricci – cello
  • Ron Carter – double bass
  • Alfred Brown, Theodore Israel and Emanuel Vardi – viola
  • Harry Cykman, Max Ellen, Paul Gershman, Emanuel Green, Harold Kohon, Charles Libove, Harry Lookofsky, Joe Malin, Gene Orloff, David Nadien and Elliot Rosoff – violin

Vocals

  • William Eaton, Eileen Gilbert, Barbara Massey, Randolph Peyton, Maeretha Stewart and Bernard Thacker

Production

  • Creed Taylor – producer
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
  • Kevin Reeves – CD mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
  • Kyle Benson – A&R coordinator
  • Andy Kman – production coordinator
  • Hollis King – art direction
  • Bob Ciano – album design
  • Isabelle Wong – design
  • David A. Leffel – album painting
  • Harry Weinger – reissue supervisor

References

  1. ↑ Soul Box at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 203. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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