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Prestige · in the Kissa Kissa racks

No Way!

No Way! cover
Recordedc. 1971
LabelPrestige
Released1971
Personnel6 credited players
Discogsmaster 168863

The record

Fender bass and Bernard Purdie's backbeat set the pocket while Cornell and Phillips split organ duties across this early-70s session. Jones sticks to lean, bluesy lines, ceding some heat to a young Grover Washington Jr. on tenor.

Session personnel

  • Jimmy Lewis — bass [fender bass]
  • Bernard Purdie — drums
  • Ivan 'Boogaloo' Joe Jones — guitar
  • Butch Cornell — organ
  • Sonny Phillips — organ, electric piano
  • Grover Washington, Jr. — tenor saxophone

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

1971Prestige · PR 10004 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file
1980Prestige · JOR2025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1984Prestige · GSL 185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
2016Concord Records — File, FLAC, Album, Reissue
2016Concord Records — File, ALAC, Album, Reissue, 16/44.1
2022Prestige · CR00476 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 180g
Prestige
Prestige · 10004 — Vinyl, LP, Album
Concord Records — File, MP3, Album, Reissue, VBR
Prestige · YPR 10004 — 8-Track Cartridge, Stereo

Follow the players

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Ivan 'Boogaloo' Joe Jones also plays on

Butch Cornell also plays on