Soul Meeting makes for a good album title, as various performers who bring lots of soul to any gathering can attest. The only thing that might make for a better
Soul Meeting than this 1960
King Curtis side would be an actual meeting of everyone that has indeed utilized this particular album title, including
Ray Charles,
Milt Jackson, and
Billy Preston. For the final comment about this album title, it should be pointed out that the Prestige two-fer reissue of this session was also entitled
Soul Meeting but contains an entire additional
King Curtis album as well. As originally released,
Soul Meeting featured a half-dozen tracks from one early fall date, the sublime
Rudy Van Gelder manning the recording controls. King Soul! had been tracked the previous spring, both albums falling into a certain category in the discography of this important rhythm and blues instrumentalist as in the stuff he did that wasn't exactly rhythm and blues. Prestige was more of a jazz label, so albums such as this are generally thought of as
King Curtis' attempts to play jazz.