The Database Book

Freddie Roach - The Soul Book / Mocha Motion! (1998) {BGP Records CDBGPD 122 rec 1966-1967}
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© 1966-67, 1998 BGR Records / Prestige / Ace Records | CDBGPD 122
Jazz / Soul Jazz / Organ Hammond B-3

As Freddie Roach's Blue Note career progressed, his work increasingly celebrated contemporary black culture, and accordingly developed a greater interest in funky, jukebox-ready grooves, a stylistic departure from his initial melodic finesse. Roach took both interests with him to Prestige, as demonstrated on The Soul Book/Mocha Motion, a U.K.-only two-fer compiling his first two albums for the label. Roach definitely brings the hard funk on parts of The Soul Book, but there's a laid-back, even meditative quality to others, which is surprising since his liner notes seem to suggest a concept album about the urban grit of Harlem.