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Blues for Mr. T
By Greg Skaff
Label: Khaeon World Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Baku (Skaff) - 6:22
2. Rambler (Skaff) - 7:31
3. Super 80 (Skaff) - 6:06
4. Blues for Mr. T (Skaff) - 7:11
5. Delphia (Hubbard) - 6:27
6. Inception (Tyner) - 9:13
7. Poundcake (Skaff) - 7:15
8. Isfahan (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 6:45
9. Highway (Skaff) - 7:34
Greg Skaff: Blues for Mr. T
by C. Michael Bailey
This year has seen an organ renaissance. Organ jazz had its genesis in Fred Longshaw, who performed with a reed organ on the 1925 Bessie Smith recording of "St. Louis Blues." Fats Waller was a pipe organ virtuoso. Count Basie introduced the organ into swing music, giving way to Wild Bill Davis, who predicted Jimmy Smith ...
Greg Skaff: Blues For Mr. T
by David A. Orthmann
Greg Skaff’s second disc as a leader charts an impressive course between the familiar, agreeable parameters of soul-jazz and a more open ended, blowing-based approach. The guitarist, Hammond B-3 organist Mike LeDonne, and drummer Joe Farnsworth (all of whom frequently play in various bands at Smoke, a club in New York City that serves as a ...
Greg Skaff: Blues for Mr. T
by Elliott Simon
There seems to be an increased appetite among jazz fans of late for the inherent soulful funkiness of a Hammond B3 organ/guitar trio. With Manhattan's club Smoke holding B3 nights each Tuesday, this genre that peaked during the ‘60s and ‘70s is back in a big way. From the first cut on guitarist Greg Skaff's Blues ...
