This is organ jazz blues with a feelin. Bro Jack is still the funkiest of organists. He had his own style. He always kept a great band. he gave George Benson his debut. Joe Dukes was a class drummer whom I had the pleasure of knowing was a powerhouse...I miss them both...DEARLY....Rest in Peace-both of you.
chuckle....i played this for my 86 year old mom when she was in my car....that 'ol lady holla'd YEAAAH, swayed back & forth, popping her fingers all the way to Publix !!! Love you Mrs. Tinsley
whoa! REMINDS ME OF THE LIVE JAZZ CLUBS IN THE BAY AREA.I'M 48 NOW BUT I WAS 23 THEN. WEARING ARMANI SUITS,GENUINE GATORS.HAIR LOOKING LIKE BILLY DEE'S.JUST GETTING OFF WORK AS A LADIES SHOE SALESMAN AT NORDSTROMS.HAPPYHOUR SIPPING ON MARTELL AND DANCING SOOO SUAVE TO THAT COOL,FUNKY JAZZ.
It don't get no better than this...blues at it very best. That's George Benson on guitar at 19yrs old, Red Holloway on sax and Joe Dukes on drums. I heard this band many times and they always grooved this hard....Jack pack em in everywhere he went. I love him, down to earth GENTLEMEN.......
another excellent LP is "the blues is now" (if you can find it, it's long out of print) I think it's from '63 on VERVE records. Jimmy Witherspoon, Melvin Sparks, Brother Jack McDuff....Check out "sweet slumber" "outskirts of town" and their version of "good rockin tonight" it's a top gun record and I've been hoping for years it will be released on cd. Supposedly VERVE/FORCAST is working with Mickey Hart and archiving/restoring their old catalogue for re-release. Let's pray that happens!!!! THANX
Waiting for someone to post from mcduff's album with benson....?? can't remember, but great album...now in norway, that cd's on the other side (the dark side sic..aus!)...great post! just caught defrancesco here in bergen...
did you say benson was 19 on this record? omg thats just insane i love this whole cd and benson is stunning throughout...those double stops on this track....but yeh this group really rocked..headnod footapping wonder
I'm not sure if it's been re-released or not, but you can go to tower records site on the web and look. Often they can search for it if they don't have it, they can get it if it's out there. Do yourself a favor if you find it, get the more expensive one, or preferably a japanese import of it. They make the miniature original paper l.p. cover, and use the original art, as well as a much higher quality remaster. Some are like 64-bit remasters. It's worth it, some remasters sound like crap.
Plez could u find Brother Jack McDuff - Duffin around I heard the song at a yardbirds concert and loved it and have not been able to find it any where if u do find it plez post it
I got a box of reel to reels with stuff like this at the flea market from an old black guty who said every inch of these tapes is sacred. Practice jams and other stuff taken at clubs & saloons back in the late 50s. There's 30ea 7" reels and I don't have a player. Could be unknown stuff. I got lot's of Art Blakey and Miles davis, H. Mobley, Jim Dog Almonds Flutie lateef les mccann and so on. Some looks to be from the savoy and Blue room & The Back Door & assorted nightclubs mostly St Louis and Philly. But Chicago and Detroit are listed/
