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Larry Young: Into Somethin'
by Greg Simmons
Organist Larry Young's Into Somethin' is full of relaxed grooves, great melodies and strong performances from tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers and 1960s stalwarts Elvin Jones (drums) and Grant Green (guitar). Originally released in 1964, this record has been remastered and released on 45 RPM vinyl by Ron Rambach at Music Matters. Soul Jazz? Groove ...
Cool Blues
Label: Groove Hut Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: A Foggy Day; Here Tis; Cool Blues; Watusi Jump; Walk Wid Me; Misty; Please; Man With A Horn; Prisoner Of Love; Stardust;
The Holy Barbarian, St. Louis, 1959
By Grant Green
Label: Uptown Records (2)
Released: 2012
Track listing: Opening Credits; There Will Never Be Another You; The Holy Barbarian Blues; Caramu (Blue Caribou); Groovin' High; Deep; Out Of Nowhere; Blue Train;
RJ Spangler Trio: This Is What We Do
by Steve Bryant
Detroit has always been a home for a multitude of jazz traditions. From big band to swing, from hard bop to the avant-garde, any jazz style can be heard in a given week. The city has especially embraced the organ trio, that staple of neighborhood joints found throughout the urban landscape. Veteran drummer and bandleader RJ ...
Bobby Hutcherson: Somewhere In The Night
by Dan Bilawsky
The elder statesman of the vibraphone and the fastest gun in organ town don't seem like ideal partners on paper, but on record they gel quite well. Blue Note vibraphone icon Bobby Hutcherson and the fleet-fingered Joey DeFrancesco initially teamed up for the organist's Organic Vibes (Concord, 2006), and their chemistry was so strong that they ...
Ed Cherry: It's All Good
by Dan Bilawsky
Guitarist Ed Cherry is best known for his lengthy, decade-plus tenure with trumpet titan Dizzy Gillespie, but his work with another heavyweight of a different ilk--organist Big John Patton--is a more obvious influence on It's All Good. Cherry played the important role of Patton's guitar-playing foil during some of the legend's '90s comeback sessions and he ...
Jordan Young: Cymbal Melodies
by Dan Bilawsky
Drummer Jordan Young took the organ quartet outside of its stylistic comfort zone on his debut, Jordan Young Group (Self Produced, 2010), and continues to carve his own path within this format on this enjoyable follow-up. Young reconvenes the quartet from his first leader date, with Avi Rothbard taking the place of guitarist Yotam Silberstein, and ...
Take Five With Josh Maxey
by AAJ Staff
Meet Josh Maxey: Making a series of six albums in twelve months. Doing it without Impulse!, Blue Note, Verve, money or without playing the Village Vanguard. Eating a lot of pizza. One through five-and-a-half available: Incarnate, Approach, The Language of Sound and Spirit, Argument for the Blues, Light Cycles and Blues in the Kitchen ...
Lou Donaldson: Jazz Paths
by Josep Pedro
One of the few remaining musicians that defined the sound of jazz after the bebop musical revolution, alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson illustrates the richness and ambiguities of jazz evolution during the crucial period between the late forties and early seventies. During these intense and fascinating times of contemporary United States history, jazz exploded into a variety ...


