title: Sophisticated Funk
text: # Sophisticated Funk
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
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  | Source | Rating |
  | Allmusic | |
  
  Sophisticated Funk is an album by organist Jack McDuff recorded in 1976 and released on the Chess label.
  
  ## Reception
  
  The Allmusic site awarded the album 2 stars stating "This forgettable effort from Jack McDuff veers far too close to smooth jazz territory for comfort -- swapping his signature Hammond B-3 for keyboards, McDuff settles for a fusion sound suggesting a particularly tepid CTI session, with none of the swagger and groove of his most memorable records".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All compositions by Jack McDuff and Billy Jones except as indicated
  
  * "Dit Da Dit" - 6:00
  * "Ju Ju" (Billy Jones) - 6:49
  * "To Be Named Later" - 4:50
  * "Summer Dream" - 4:50
  * "Jack's Boogie" - 3:32
  * "Mini Pads" - 5:50
  * "Electric Surf Board" (Jack McDuff) - 5:17
  * "Mannix Theme" (Lalo Schifrin) - 3:26
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Jack McDuff - organ, piano, electric piano
  * Joe Farrell - saxophones, flute
  * Brian Cuomo - piano
  * Robert Banks, Walter Morris - guitar
  * Billy Jones - guitar, percussion
  * Frank Prescod - electric bass
  * Joe Corsello, Ted McKinsey, Clarence Oliver, Arnold Ramsey, Scott Schoer - drums
  * Craig Derry, Scott Saunders - congas, percussion
  