Champion Jack Dupree's great 1958 album 'Blues From The Gutter'(ATLANTIC) with Pete Brown(alto sax); Larry Dale(guitar); Wendell Marshall(bass) & Willie Jones(drums):
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Just been listening to the new disc by multi-saxophonist James Carter, a musician I know Jazzrook appreciates and whose disc will also surely appeal to Elmo. Carter leads a trio with organist Gerard Gibbs on organ which re-visits the work of Django Reinhart to whom he had previously paid tribute on the 1990s album "Chasin' the gypsy."
What is great about this record is that it is the group I saw at the Club De Minuit at Vienne a few years back. This is the after hours club which tends to specialise the more specialist, hardcore jazz musicians as well as promoting young talent. The gig was crammed to the rafters with fans and Carter whipped the audience up in to a frenzy. It was the best gig at Vienne that year by a country mile and I would have to argue one of the best gigs I have seen in the last five years. The band paid homage to Reinhart but the music seemed to come from all directions taking in influences from Count Basie, James Brown funk, Albert Ayler and the more the orthodox organ tradition jazz. This record replicates the experience at live concert at Newport Jazz Festival . The music is incredible, the flow of ideas from Carter's tenor, alto and soprano seemingly endless.
Listening to this again, the music does display an unbooted ethos which is really rare these days. It really reminded me of players like Illinois Jacquet and particularly Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, especially in the way that the organ was employed. Oddly, the influence of Coltrane seemed to have been totally by-passed and there is certainly a tremendous debt owed by Carter to the generations of musicians who emerged in the 1930s-50s in the wake of Coleman Hawkins . The amusing element of this is how be manages to make this style connect with the parallel influence of more "outside" players such as Albert Ayler and David Murray. The audience reaction at Vienne was quite staggering as the more ferocious and risk taking the solos, the more they lapped it up.
I think that organ jazz groups come with a large element of expectation from their audience given the heritage stemming back to the likes of Jimmy Smith. It is a style of jazz where the demands from the audience are to get funky and produce music that it at once greasy and groovy. This record scores on all levels for me although I would argue that you would have to be particularly curmudgeonly not to really enjoy this disc which is great fun!Comment
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This whole album was released on you tube a few days ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ilih3Klb8Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
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Champion Jack Dupree with King Curtis(tenor sax); Cornell Dupree(guitar); Jerry Jemmott(bass) & Oliver Jackson(drums) at Montreux, June 17, 1971.
Two months later King Curtis(1934-71) was stabbed to death at 50 West 86th Street, New York.
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John McLaughlin - Devotion
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‘Not so Dukish’ - Johnny Hodges
Johnny Hodges featuring Ben Webster with Roy Eldridge, Ray Nance, Jimmy Hamilton, Lawrence Brown, Billy Strayhorn, Jimmy Woode, Sam Woodyard
Verve (1958)Comment
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‘Groove’ - The Complete Legendary 1961 Sessions
Ben Webster with Richard 'Groove' Holmes, Les McCann, Lawrence 'Tricky' Lofton, George Freeman, Herbie Lewis & Ron Jefferson
Pacific Jazz (1961)Comment
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‘A Sure Thing’ - Blue Mitchell
Blue Mitchell with Clark Terry, Julius Watkins, Jerome Richardson, Jimmy Heath, Wynton Kelly, Sam Jones & Albert Heath
Riverside (1962)Comment
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Red Rodney with Ira Sullivan, Tommy Flanagan, Oscar Pettiford & Philly Joe Jones playing 'Star Eyes' from 1957:
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‘Glide On’ - Bill Jennings
Bill Jennings with Jack McDuff, Al Jennings, Wendell Marshall & Alvin Johnson
Prestige (1960)Comment
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Red Rodney with Chris Potter(18!), Bill Watrous, Derek Smith, Bill Crow & Ed Soph in May 1989:
& https://heliocentricworlds.blogspot....rokee.html?m=1
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