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Lawrence Barris

Blue Beatles – Mick Kolassa / Mark Telesca And Organissimo

by C. Michael Bailey
May 25, 2017

The Beatles songbook has been coming into blues and jazz focus over the last decade as evidenced in the recordings The Blues White Album (Telarc, 2003) and Let It Be Jazz: Connie Evingson Sings The Beatles (Summit Records, 2003). Two recent records pop to the surface reprising this interest. Mick Kolassa & ...

Organissimo: B3tles: A Soulful Tribute To The Fab Four

by C. Andrew Hovan
May 8, 2017

When one thinks of jazz cities responsible for contributing some of the music's most important artists, Detroit is always a name that pops up at the top of the list. A short list of icons who hail from the city would have to include Ron Carter, the Jones Brothers, James Carter, Pepper Adams, Louis Hayes, and ...

Organissimo: B3tles: A Soulful Tribute To The Fab Four

by Dan McClenaghan
April 6, 2017

Guitarist Grant Green was one of the early birds on this: turning Beatles tunes into soulful jazz workouts, with his I Want to Hold Your Hand (Blue Note, 1965), featuring Hammond organ master Larry Young on the B3, recorded a little over a year after the Fab Four's musical invasion of America. But it was mostly ...