Soul Meeting Review by Eugene Chadbourne
...As originally released, Soul Meeting featured a half-dozen tracks from one early fall date, the sublime Rudy Van Gelder manning the recording controls. King Soul! had been tracked the previous spring, both albums falling into a certain category in the discography of this important rhythm and blues instrumentalist as in the stuff he did that wasn't exactly rhythm and blues. Prestige was more of a jazz label, so albums such as this are generally thought of as King Curtis' attempts to play jazz.
Patterns of accepted critical thought regarding this situation eventually shifted when genres such as acid jazz and hip-hop lifted ideas as well as entire passages from the soul-jazz many of the players that traipsed through Van Gelder's studios were into...
https://www.allmusic.com/album/soul-meeting-mw0001059852
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8izT9IYGs&list=RDKK8izT9IYGs&start_radio=1
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