!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.
