Brother Jack McDuff - Live! (1963) (1994) Lossless
Artist: Brother Jack McDuff - Live! Title Of Album Live! Year Of Release:1963/1994 Label (Catalog#) Prestige [PRCD 24147 2] Country: USA Genre: Jazz, Soul Jazz, Hard Bop Quality: FLAC (*tracks+.cue,log) Total Time: 01:16:49 Total Size: 504Mb(+5%)(covers)
A retitled compilation of two of Jack McDuff's live albums from the '60s, Brother Jack McDuff Live! is an outstanding album, one of the purest examples ever of quite possibly the finest Hammond B3 organ player in the world. These recordings were made with McDuff's classic lineup: Red Holloway on tenor sax and flute, Joe Dukes on drums, and a young George Benson (long before he became a star making formulaic soul-pop albums in the '70s) on guitar. This lineup is arguably the pinnacle of the often-misunderstood subgenre of soul-jazz, capable of mixing funky Booker T. & the MG's-style grooves with rippling, exploratory solos. Benson and Holloway (and Harold Vick, who sits in on a few tunes on tenor and flute) all get off some sweet solos, but McDuff is firmly in control of the set all the way. His organ playing can seem almost clichéd to the soul-jazz novice, until one realizes that these riffs became soul-jazz clichés because so many lesser players immediately copped his licks. Here, one can hear them from the source, and it's an eye-opening experience. by Stewart Mason
Personnel --------- Jack McDuff - organ Red Holloway - tenor saxophone George Benson - guitar Joe Dukes - drums Harold Vick - tenor saxophone (tracks: 7-13) ============== #1-6 recorded at the Front Room, Newark, NJ (June 5, 1963) Originally released as Brother Jack McDuff/Live! (Prestige 7274) #7-13 recorded at the Jazz Workshop, San Francisco (October 3, 1963) Originally released as The Brother Jack McDuff Quartet/Live! At the Jazz Workshop (Prestige 7286)
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