Mo' Greens Please is the second album by American organist Freddie Roach

Freddie Roach (organist)

See Freddie Roach for the boxer.Freddie Roach is a soul jazz Hammond B3 organist born in the Bronx, New York. He was one of a handful of legendary jazz organists that made history in the 1960s, the golden era of the Hammond organ...

 recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 4 stars and stated "for all its stylistic detours the album hangs together beautifully -- each of the players is at the top of his respective game, and in particular Roach attacks the organ with all the passion and flair of his most incendiary outings".

Track listing

All compositions by Freddie Roach except as indicated

1. "Baby Don't You Cry"
2. "Party Time"
3. "Blues in the Front Room
4. "I Know"
5. "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
   Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
   "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby" is a 1944 Louis Jordan song, released as the B-side of single with "G.I. Jive". "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" reached #1 on the US folk/country charts. The Louis Jordan recording also peaked at number two for three weeks on the pop chart and peaked at...
   
   " (Louis Jordan
   Louis Jordan
   Louis Thomas Jordan was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the...
   
   )
6. "Googa Mooga"
7. "Nada Bossa"
8. "Mo' Greens Please"
9. "Unchained Melody
   Unchained Melody
   "Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It has become one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages....
   
   " (Alex North
   Alex North
   Alex North was an American composer who wrote the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernist scores written in Hollywood ....
   
   , Hy Zaret
   Hy Zaret
   Hy Zaret was an American Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century.-Biography:...
   
   )
10. "Two Different Worlds"
    • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on January 21 (tracks 1-5) and March 11 (tracks 6-10), 1963.

Personnel

• Freddie Roach
  Freddie Roach (organist)
  See Freddie Roach for the boxer.Freddie Roach is a soul jazz Hammond B3 organist born in the Bronx, New York. He was one of a handful of legendary jazz organists that made history in the 1960s, the golden era of the Hammond organ...
  
   - organ
  Electronic organ
  An electronic organ is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally, it was designed to imitate the sound of pipe organs, theatre organs, band sounds, or orchestral sounds....
  
  
• Conrad Lester - tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
   (tracks 6-10)
• Kenny Burrell
  Kenny Burrell
  Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell is an American jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians.-Biography:...
  
   (tracks 1-5), Eddie Wright (tracks 6-10) - guitar
  Guitar
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• Clarence Johnston - drums
  Drum kit
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