!971 album released by Jimmy Hammond (John Robert Smith) from Louisville, Kentucky. Producer Creed Taylor planned "Wild horses rock steady" to be a crossover album, with strings and horns, and a full of jazz stars acting as sidemen. Soulful Hammond B3 organ thundering around over jazz-funk and rock.
Johnny Hammond - Hammond B3 organ, electric piano.
Bob Mann, George Benson, Melvin Sparks, Eric Gale - guitar.
Grover Washington Jr., Harold Vick - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone.
Peper Adams - baritone saxophone.
Wayne Andre - trombone.
Al DeRisi, Snooky Young - trumpet, flugelhorn.
Gene Orloff, Joe Malin, Emanuel Green, Harry Katzman, Paul Gershman, Max Pollikoff, Julius Held, Julius Brand - violin.
Ron Carter - bass.
Airto Moreira, Omar Clay - percussion.
Billy Cobham - drums.
Rock steady.
Who is Sylvia?
Peace train.
I don't know how to love him.
It's impossible.
Wild horses.
