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Opus de Funk: Johnny "Hammond" Smith
by Derek Taylor
Individuality was a prized commodity during the soul jazz organ boom that bridged the Fifties and Sixties. With so many ensembles exploding like popcorn kernels in the cultural kettles of numerous North American cities, the critical slight of “a dime a dozen” carried more clout than most of the artists wanted to admit. ...
Chuck Wayne: Morning Mist
by Russell Moon
What a find! Guitarist Chuck Wayne was a member of George Shearing's original quintet, and he played on Shearing's 1949 breakthrough hit “September in the Rain." For much of the '50s he was Tony Bennett's musical director. He later was a staff musician for CBS television and radio. 1964's Morning Mist was one of ...
The Jaki Byard Quartet with Joe Farrell: The Last From Lennie's
by David Rickert
If anyone wanted to record a history of jazz piano, it could have been done by Jaki Byard, an incredibly versatile pianist who could play virtually any style. However, Byard was too cagey to have approached a project of that magnitude, preferring to meld his influences within the space of a single composition. Utilizing a method ...
Richard "Groove" Holmes: On Basie's Bandstand
by David Rickert
Soul jazz was never in short supply during the mid to late sixties, occupying slots in juke boxes next to Aretha Franklin and James Brown and filling clubs such as Count Basie’s lounge in Harlem. On many a night these small and noisy joints were excellent places to catch master organists such as Richard “Groove” Holmes ...
Prelude
By Jack McDuff
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: A Kettle Of Fish; Candlelight; Put On A Happy Face; Prelude; Mean To Me; Carry Me Home; Easy
Living; Oh Look At Me Now; Dig Cousin Will; Theme From The Carpetbaggers; Theme From The
Pink Panther; You
Bacalao
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Last Train From Overbrook/ Sometimes I
The J.J. Johnson Memorial Album
By J.J. Johnson
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. I Mean You, 2. Elysee, 3.Blue Mode (take 1), 4.Chazzanova, 5. Blue 'N'Boogie, 6. Bag's Groove,
7. Laura, 8. Hymn to the Orient, 9. Horace, 10. Pinnacles, 11. Jaylock, 12. Concepts in Blue, 13.
Misty, 14.What's New, 15. Nature Boy, 16. Soft Wings.
Fine And Mellow
By Gene Ammons
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Lady Sings the Blues/ Play Me/ Ben/ Fly Me/ Fuzz/ Fine and Mellow/ Strange Fruit/ Big Bad Jug/ God
Bless the Child/ Tin Shack Out Back/ Lady Mama/ I Can
Tenor Madness
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Tenor Madness; When Your Lover Has Gone; Paul's Pal; My Reverie; The
Most Beautiful Girl in the World. (Total Time 35:06).
On Basie's Bandstand
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Back Home Again in Indiana
2. Moanin'
3. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
4. Rifftide
5. This Here
6. Nica's Dream
7. Night Train
