Sweet and Soulful Sounds is an album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label.[1]
The AllMusic review by Stewart Mason awarded the album 4 stars stating: "Sweet and Soulful Sounds, from 1962, is a most atypical record for Bobby Timmons. Long thought of only as a funky piano player in the style that Ramsey Lewis would later make commercially successful, Timmons could also play prettily, as he does on this ballad-heavy set... This is an unusual record for Bobby Timmons, but a great one".[2]
- All compositions by Bobby Timmons except as indicated
- "The Sweetest Sounds" (Richard Rodgers) – 4:56
- "Turn Left" – 5:26
- "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday) – 5:01
- "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) – 4:35
- "Another Live One" – 4:10
- "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 5:59
- "Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 3:38
- "Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 5:49
- Recorded at Plaza Sound Studio in New York City by Ray Fowler on June 18, 1962 (tracks 3, 4 & 7) and June 19, 1962 (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6 & 8).