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Jimmy Ponder: Steel City Soul
by AAJ Staff
Producer Lance Goler calls Jimmy Ponder one of “a handful of players who can hold a torch to Wes." Some would laugh, but there are a number of parallels. Jimmy plays with his thumb, and, like Wes, spent a lot of time playing guitar- organ “bar music". While Blue Note and Prestige recorded this music extensively ...
Jimmy Ponder: Steel City Soul
by Douglas Payne
Despite sterling work over the last three decades with such luminaries as Johnny Hodges, Lou Donaldson, Jimmy McGriff and Stanley Turrentine and a baker's dozen albums on his own since 1973, talented Pittsburgh-based guitarist Jimmy Ponder has yet to receive his due. The guitarist clearly recalls Wes Montgomery because he too plays the guitar with his ...
