Heavy Sounds is an album by American jazz drummer Elvin Jones and bassist Richard Davis recorded in 1967 and released on the Impulse!
Davis recalled: "No discussion, no editing, no plan, I just started playing the melody, and there he was... and I just thought there was some very brotherly thing about that particular piece.
"[3] Thiele then suggested that the two musicians return to the studio the following day, and Jones invited saxophonist Frank Foster and pianist Billy Greene to join them.
"[4] The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings called the album "a series of feature spots, stitched together with some suspect ensemble-play.
"[6] In a review for Flophouse Magazine, François van de Linde referred to the album as "a peculiar but delicious hodgepodge of styles" and wrote: "No plastic people on Heavy Sounds.