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Jack McDuff

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Brother Jack McDuff, was one of the handful of leading exponents of the soul jazz style created on Hammond organ by Jimmy Smith in the late 1950s. The instrument at the heart of the soul jazz style was the Hammond B-3 organ, usually in the company of electric guitar, drums, and often tenor saxophone. The emergence of Jimmy Smith as a major star on the instrument sparked its widespread use in jazz and pop music in the early 1960s, and McDuff was among its most successful practitioners. Its initial popularity in both jazz and rock had peaked by the end of the decade, and it was later largely superseded for a time by more contemporary developments in keyboard technology, but it retained serious cult status among its devotees, and those musicians who still preferred the challenge of actually having to play everything themselves
Mitch Towne: Refuge

by Kyle Simpler
After organ trios came to prominence during the 1950s, jazz groove has never been the same. Performers like Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, and most notably Jimmy Smith introduced a new level of soul to jazz music. With Refuge, organist Mitch Towne makes a compelling debut as a leader, adding his name to a who's who of ...
Jed Levy: Faces and Places

by Jack Kenny
This is a beautiful album that is fired up right from the start. The sound of the tenor is faintly reminiscent of Warne Marsh. There is no seeking after angularity. Jed Levy's way with melody is completely natural and integrated into the quintet, though there are surprises all the way through the improvisations. Jed ...
A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazz: Part 3

by Ian Patterson
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 The third installment of A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazz--a series developed with the cooperation of the Ukrainian Institute--introduces five more highly talented jazz artists/groups from Ukraine. The vast range of personal musical identities attests to the strength, depth and originality of contemporary ...
Ain't No Sunshine

By Jack McDuff
Label: Reel to Real Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Side A: Theme From Electric Surfboard; Three Blind Mice.
Side B: Ain't No Sunshine; I'm Gdetting Sentimental Over You; Blues 1 & 8.
Side C: (Unknown); The Jolly Black Giant.
Side D: Middle Class Folk Song; 6:30 In The Morning.
Eric Frazier: That Place

by Richard J Salvucci
Eric Frazier has been at it a long time, the better part of a quarter century. He started out as a public school teacher and administrator in New York City, and became a conga drummer out of his interest in African music. He has, as the saying goes, been around, played at venues like The Knitting ...
Jeremy Monteiro Organ Quartet: Live Upon Nassim Hill

by Ian Patterson
Singaporean Jeremy Monteiro is primarily known as a pianist, having played with James Moody, Jimmy Cobb, Carmen Bradford, Charlie Haden and Ernie Watts, no less. But he is also a fine organist, an instrument he taught many moons ago. Monteiro returned to those roots with the trio Organamix, whose energy was captured on the live Kuala ...
My Conversation with Bob Berg

by Mike Brannon
This article first appeared at All About Jazz in March 2002. The probability that you've heard Bob Berg's distinctive, soulful, intelligent soloing is very high if you've heard the more contemporary work of Miles Davis, Mike Stern, Chick Corea, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Gary Burton, Randy Brecker, Jaco Pastorius and now a new version ...
A Free Form 45 Format + Davis, Rollins & Hill

by David Brown
This week, for our first hour, we'll present a free-from 45 format. Spinning singles from this box of mini platters I have right here. Reading the recently released book titled In with the In crowd, Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America" by Mike Smith, I was reminded that jazz artists in the mid-century were part of ...
The (Record Store) Day After - Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
More un-earthed gems and special edition re-issues released for Record Store Day in this set, which also focuses on two wonderful Sun Ra tribute albums produced by the Red Hot Organization. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Lettuce VIBE" VIBE (Lettuce) 0:16 ...