Blue Note

It Just Got To Be

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Recorded	1963
Label	Blue Note
Catalog	ST-84120
Released	1963
Personnel	7 credited players
Discogs	master 362345

The record

Gene Harris has a way of making a standard sound like it is being worked out at the keyboard as you listen, and Stella By Starlight and The Nearness Of You get exactly that treatment. Andrew Simpkins and Bill Dowdy keep the trio light on its feet; Blue 'N Boogie is where they lean in. Alfred Lion produced, Reid Miles did the cover. Blue Note ST-84120.

Tracks

One For Renee
Stella By Starlight
It Just Got To Be
If I Were A Bell
Blue 'N Boogie
The Nearness Of You
Real Gene
South Of The Border

Session personnel

Reid Miles — Artwork By [Cover Design]
Andrew Simpkins — Bass
Bill Dowdy — Drums
Francis Wolff — Photography By
Gene Harris — Piano
Alfred Lion — Producer
The Three Sounds

Contemporary reception

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

Pressings

1963	Blue Note · BLP 4120 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · deep groove; RVG stamp
1963	Blue Note · ST-84120 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · deep groove; RVG stamp; Plastylite ear
1993	Blue Note · 84120 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp; laminated sleeve
—	Blue Note · BLP 4120 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono · RVG stamp
—	Blue Note · BST 84120 — Vinyl, LP, Repress, Stereo · RVG stamp
1963	Blue Note · ST-84120 — Vinyl LP Album Stereo
1966	Blue Note · BST 84120 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1966	Blue Note · BST 84120 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1970	Blue Note · BST 84120 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1994	Blue Note · TOCJ-4120 — CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo
2003	Blue Note · TOCJ-9527 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Paper Sleeve
—	Blue Note · BST 84120 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
—	Blue Note · TOCJ-4120 — CD, Album, Reissue, Repress, Stereo