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A Good Git-Together is a 1959 studio album by Jon Hendricks. It was Hendricks’ first solo album, and featured Cannonball Adderley and Wes Montgomery.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated:”On various tracks, Jon Hendricks’ first album as a leader, released in 1959, features such major sidemen as altoist Pony Poindexter, guitarist Wes Montgomery, and both Nat and Cannonball Adderley. Hendricks — who was riding high in Lambert, Hendricks & Ross at the time — is in superb form on such numbers as “I’m Gonna Shout (Everything Started in the House of the Lord),” a couple of songs that Hendricks had written for Louis Jordan, Randy Weston’s “Pretty Strange,” “Social Call,” and the jubilant “A Good Git-Together.””

Track listing
“Everything Started in the House of the Lord” – 1:03
“Music in the Air” (Gigi Gryce) – 3:58
“Feed Me” – 3:50
“I’ll Die Happy” – 2:22
“Pretty Strange” (Randy Weston) – 2:53
“The Shouter” (Gildo Mahones) – 5:03
“Minor Catastrophe” – 5:21
“Social Call” (Gryce) – 2:22
“Out of the Past” (Benny Golson) – 4:55
“A Good Git-Together” – 3:41
“I’m Gonna Shout (Everything Started in the House of the Lord)” – 2:26
All songs written by Jon Hendricks, collaborators indicated.

Personnel
Jon Hendricks – vocals
Nat Adderley – cornet (2, 5, 6, 8, 9)
Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone (2, 5, 6, 8, 9)
Pony Poindexter – alto saxophone, vocals (1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 11)
Wes Montgomery – guitar
Gildo Mahones – piano
Ike Isaacs – double bass (1, 4, 7)
Monk Montgomery – double bass (2, 3, 5, 6, 8–11)
Walter Bolden – drums (2, 3, 5, 6, 8–11)
Jimmy Wormworth – drums (1, 4, 7)

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Released: 1959
Recorded: 1959
Length: 62:43
Label: Pacific Jazz
Producer: Richard Bock