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It's Uptown

The George Benson Quartet

Recorded	1966
Label	Columbia
Released	1966
Personnel	4 credited players
Discogs	master 220031

The record

Cut for Columbia with a working combo, this date lets Cuber's baritone growl against a churning organ groove while the guitarist keeps his lines lean. Harlem after dark, played tight and unhurried.

Session personnel

Ronnie Cuber — baritone saxophone
Jimmy Lovelace — drums
George Benson — guitar
Lonnie Smith — organ

Contemporary reception

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

Pressings

Columbia issued this in 1966 in mono, CL 2525, and stereo, CS 9325, and those US copies are the ones to look at. A German CBS stereo, S 62 817, carries the same year, as do the UK's mono BPG 62817 and stereo SBPG 62817. The 1975 and 1976 US copies of CS 9325 are later plant pressings rather than remasters, and we list no audiophile reissue at all.

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 24 pressings on file.

1966	Columbia · CL 2525 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1966	CBS · S 62 817 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1966	CBS · SBPG 62817 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1966	CBS · BPG 62817 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1966	Columbia · CL 2525 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono
1966	Columbia · CS 9325 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1966	Columbia · CS 9325 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Export
1966	Columbia · CS 9325 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing
1966	Columbia · CS 9325 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1968	CBS · CL 2525 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1971	Columbia — STEREO
1974	CBS/Sony · SOPM-178 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1975	Columbia · CS 9325 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1976	Columbia · CS 9325 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue, Santa Maria Press