1967
GONNA' GET THAT BOAT * JOHNNY LYTLE * MINIT 11006 * UK
Recorded Live at Top Of The Gate New York City sometime
between August and November 1967
and first released on the Pacific Jazz album Swinging At The Gate, then
as a 45 on Pacific Jazz 88143. Gonna' Get That Boat is more Jazz
than Soul this instrumental by percussionist and singer Johnny Lytle, has
him rapping (in the old style) a narrative full of fatalism and pathos. Although
Johnny Lytle's main instrument is the vibraphone he does play xylophone
as well on this, other musicians are: Jimmy Foster, organ; Larry Gales, bass;
Josell Carter, drums; and Carlos 'Patato' Valdes, cga.
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