Funky Butt (album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Funky Butt
| type = Studio album
| artist = Arnett Cobb
| cover = Funky Butt (album).jpg
| alt =
| released = 1981
| recorded = January 22, 1980
| venue =
| studio = The Big Apple Studio, NYC
| genre = Jazz
| length = 60:05 CD release with additional tracks
| label = Progressive
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| producer = Gus P. Statiras
| chronology = Arnett Cobb
| prev_title = Live at Sandy's!
| prev_year = 1978
| next_title = Arnett Cobb Live
| next_year = 1982
}}
Funky Butt is an album by saxophonist Arnett Cobb which was recorded in 1980 and released on the Progressive label.[https://www.jazzology.com/item_detail.php?id=PCD-7054 Jazzology: Progressive Records discography], accessed November 28, 2017[https://www.jazzdisco.org/arnett-cobb/catalog/#arnett-cobb-funky-butt Arnett Cobb catalog] accessed November 28, 2017 The 2014 CD reissue included three additional alternate takes.
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "Arnett Cobb, a tenor from the 1940s who fused together some of the most exciting aspects of swing and early R&B, is in typically exuberant form on this quartet set ... Cobb is warm on the ballads but the stomps are what make this record most memorable".{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000869424 |title= Arnett Cobb: Funky Butt – Review |accessdate=November 28, 2017}}
Track listing
- "Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Count Basie) – 4:32
- "Satin Doll, (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer) – 5:56
- "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Carroll) – 4:09
- "Funky Butt" – 5:48
- "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:25
- "September in the Rain" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 5:53
- "Isfahan" (Strayhorn) – 6:10
- "Radium Springs Swings" (James Newton) – 4:46
- "Jumpin' at the Woodside" [Take 1] (Count Basie) – 4:27 Additional track on CD release
- "Funky Butt Blues" [Take 1] (Cobb) – 7:25 Additional track on CD release
- "I Got Rhythm" [Take 2] (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 4:34 Additional track on CD release