LP-702

Milt Buckner – Midnight Mood

Released 1962

Recording and Session Information

Milt Buckner, organ; Johnny Pate, bass; Maurice Sinclaire, drums
Chicago, March 1961

I Almost Lost My Mind
I'm Just A Lucky So And So
If I Should Lose You
I've Got The World On A String
One For My Baby
Cocktails For Two
Little White Lies
There Is No Greater Love
Love Is The Thing
Baby Baby All The Time
A Sunday Kind Of Love
Bouncing At Dawn

Track Listing

I Almost Lost My Mind	Ivory Joe Hunter	March 1961
I'm Just A Lucky So And So	Ellington, David	March 1961
If I Should Lose You	Robin, Rainger	March 1961
I've Got The World On A String	Arlen, Koehler	March 1961
One For My Baby	Arlen, Mercer	March 1961
Cocktails For Two	Coslow, Johnston	March 1961
Little White Lies	Donaldson	March 1961
There Is No Greater Love	Jones, Symes	March 1961
Love Is The Thing	Young, Washington	March 1961
Baby Baby All The Time	Bobby Troup	March 1961
A Sunday Kind Of Love	Leonard, Belle, Rhodes, Prima	March 1961
Bouncing At Dawn	Buckner	March 1961

Liner Notes

ENOUGH praise has been heaped upon Milt Buckner to more than last a life time, and another, and another. His story has been written and rewritten. We can only project him in another phase of music, another mood.

This is Milt in a subdued, romantic profile, music for early listening music for late listening, "Midnight Mood" is music for "squares" for "hippies", for 'tsquare hippies", any way you interpret it, it's the kind of thing you can put on the turntable and relax.

From Joe Hunter's I Almost Lost My Mind to Milt's own composition, Bouncing At Dawn, it's sheer delight to hear mood pattern after mood pattern, sometimes haunting, sometimes vibrant, sometimes whimsical. Here is a musician who has gone through many changes during his long musical tenure, but always unselfishly trying to please his audiences, playing to the "people", a musicians' musician, and so another page is added to Milt Buckner's book of immortal "Musicana", and not the last.

Ralph Bass