More Soul
More Soul is an album by jazz saxophonist Hank Crawford.[1] More Soul is Crawford's first album as a leader,[2] recorded on October 7, 1960[3] while he was the music director in Ray Charles' group.[4] Charles provided the arrangement for the track "The Story."[2] Thom Jurek of allmusic gives the album a three-and-a-half star rating (of a possible five), noting that "[t]he material is swinging, front-ended, soul-inflected hard bop with tunes arranged by Crawford" and that "Crawford's tone as a soloist is sweet yet edgy and raw, full of emotion and warmth.[5] In his five-star 1961 review for DownBeat, Ralph J. Gleason praised the album, saying, "I played it more than 20 times in the first 48 hours it was in my possession."