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Percy France: Live from the West End

by Daniel Gould
August 27, 2026

 If you know Percy France, most likely you are a fan of “greasy" organ jazz, particularly on Blue Note Records during their classic era. He was an integral part of Jimmy Smith's Home Cookin' (1959) and Freddie Roach's Down to Earth (1962). Or perhaps you came to jazz through r&b acts like the Bill Doggett combo. The ...

The First Generation 1965-1974

by John Kelman
March 18, 2021

What do guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Jon Mark, Harvey Mandel and Freddy Robinson, reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalists John Almond, Ray Warleigh, Alan Skidmore, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Red Holloway and Ernie Watts, bassists John McVie, Jack Bruce, Andy Fraser, Tony Reeves, Stephen Thompson and Larry Taylor, drummers Mick Fleetwood, Keef Hartley, Aynsley Dunbar, Jon Hiseman and Collin ...

Big John Patton: Along Came John - 1963

by Marc Davis
January 26, 2016

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 ...

Take Five with Jimmy Bennington

by AAJ Staff
January 15, 2015

Meet Jimmy Bennington: Jimmy Bennington was born May 22, 1970 in Columbus, OH. Mentored by late Coltrane drummer Elvin Jones, Bennington celebrates 25 years in the music field in 2015. Jimmy has performed and recorded with many artists including David Haney, Perry Robinson, Julian Priester, Steve Cohn, Ed Schuller, Daniel Carter, Ken Filiano, and Fred ...

Glawdys N’Dee: Lyannaj

by Hrayr Attarian
October 15, 2012

The term “world music" takes a new meaning with singer Glawdys N'Dee's debut, Lyannaj, which means to connect or unite in solidarity--and unite, she does. The Guadeloupean-born, Parisian-educated and Chicago-based N'Dee brings together, in three languages--Creole, French and English--various musical styles of the African Diaspora, from Caribbean rhythms to jazz, and from gospel to the blues. ...

A Hoot - Fred Jackson

April 15, 2010

Tenor sax man Fred Jackson released only one album as a leader, but it was a fine one. Jackson got his start playing in Little Richard's band in the early 1950s. Later, he toured with rhythm-and-blues vocalist Lloyd Price, who was most famous for the single “Stagger Lee," and he also recorded with B.B King. In ...

Silver 'n Wood

By Horace Silver

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1976
Track listing: The Tranquilizer Suite Part 1 Keep On Gettin Up ; The Tranquilizer Suite Part 2 Slow Down ; The Tranquilizer Suite Part 3 Time And Effort ; The Tranquilizer Suite Part 4 Perseverance And Endurance ; The Process Of Creation Suite Part 1 Motivation ; The Process Of Creation Suite Part 2 Activation ; The Process Of Creation Suite Part 3 Assimilation ; The Process Of Creation Suite Part 4 Creation .

Dippin' In The Bag / Hootin' 'N Tootin'

By Fred Jackson

Label: Unknown label
Released: 1962

Hootin' 'N Tootin'

By Fred Jackson

Label: Unknown label
Released: 1962