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As the Blue Note Records house drummer during the early ’60s, Ben Dixon played on many of the most influential and enduring sessions in the soul-jazz canon, including landmark dates alongside Grant Green, Lou Donaldson, and Big John Patton. Born in Gaffney, SC, on Christmas Day, 1934, Dixonspent the majority of his adolescence in Washington, D.C. An avowed disciple of jazz giants Charlie Parker and Art Tatum, he was most profoundly influenced by Max Roach and began playing drums while living with his father in Buffalo, NY. A much-touted basketball prospect, Dixon attended Central State University on a full athletic scholarship but nevertheless chose music over sports, and began gigging professionally in 1955 in support of Buck Hill and Shirley Horn
Big John Patton: Along Came John - 1963
by Marc Davis
If you like Booker T and MG's, you'll love Big John Patton's Along Came John. It is, without a doubt, the funkiest, bluesiest, most soulful organ jazz record of all time, bar none. And that includes everything ever done by the legendary Jimmy Smith. Along Came John is a great party record, and once ...
The Little and Big of Florian Ross
by C. Michael Bailey
German pianist/composer Florian Ross has been making provocative music since his early Naxos Jazz recordings. He is a rolling stone, moving from one format to the next, always bringing something new and leaving something newer. Florian Ross Elektrio Wheels and Wires Fuhrwerk- Musik 2013 The organ trio, ...
Charlie Apicella & Iron City: The Business
by Edward Blanco
Guitarist Charlie Apicella & Iron City get down to the gritty business of delivering variations of funk and soul jazz on The Business, a well-crafted, vibrant grind of guitar-organ sounds supported by percussion and saxophone voices in an exciting quintet format. Though Apicella's playing style has been compared to that of Wes Montgomery, he also has ...
Sunday Mornin'
By Grant Green
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Freedom March, Sunday Morning, Exodus, God Bless the Child, Come Sunrise, So What,
Tracin' Tracey (bonus track).
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