Houston Person
Album: Houston Express
Rating: * * * * 1/2
Release Date: April 1971
Recording Date: 08.- 09.04.1971
Label: Prestige

Tracklist:
1 Young Gifted and Black 		 
2 The Houston Express 		Ott 	 
3 Lift Every Voice 		 
4 Enjoy 			Ott 	 
5 Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) 		Strong, Whitfield 	 
6 (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People 	Record 	 
7 Chains of Love 					VanWalls

AMG Review by Richie Unterberger
As period soul-jazz goes, this is considerably above the average. 
It's funky, but not in the bland crossover sense; there's a sense of jazz ensemble 
discipline to the arrangements, but it's still R&B-based enough to groove to. 
Cecil Bridgewater (trumpet), Billy Butler (guitar), Bernard Purdie (drums), and Motown 
bassist Gerry Jemmott are among the more notable contributors to this 1971 session. 
(This and the 1970 LP, Person to Person, were combined onto one CD reissue in 1996, 
Legends of Acid Jazz.)

Credits:
Cecil Bridgewater 	Trumpet
Garnett Brown 		Trombone
Billy Butler 		Guitar
Buddy Caldwell 		Conga
Babe Clark 		Brass
Paul Griffin 		Piano, Piano (Electric)
Ernie Hayes 		Organ, Piano (Electric)
Jack Jeffers 		Trombone
Gerald Jemmott 		Bass (Electric)
Money Johnson 		Trumpet
Thad Jones 		Trumpet
Horace Ott 		Arranger, Conductor
Houston Person 		Sax (Tenor)
Bernard Pretty Purdie 	Drums
Ernie Royal 		Trumpet
Harold Vick 		Flute, Sax (Tenor)
Jimmy Watson 		Organ