I want to don a suit and go to a restaurant with an elegantly dressed woman, drink old fashioneds and listen to this music. Call me Don Draper. While only a child, I have fond memories of the sophistication of the 60’s. This was the soundtrack.
Grew up listening to Jimmy Smith, Bro. Jack McDuff and the likes of others. Had the privileged to perform this kinda stuff with Clifford Scott and the Scottans, Haines City, Florida. On a good night, Professor Ronald G. Coleman would assemble some of his students, and perform! Thank You for the experience (Clifford, Matt, Curt,Jimmy, Snooky, Larry, Sparkman and Coleman)
It just doesn’t get any better than this group of amazing jazz musicians. These soulful sounds will never be outdated and only get better with time. Too bad most of today’s generation of young people have no clue as to what REAL music sounds like. However, using their language, this bluesy jazz is “dope.”
This is great music ! I grew up listening to this when my aunts & uncles came over for the holidays they would laugh dance get drunk and have a good time and nobody ever got SHOT. Peace to everyone.
Nothing matches these days. The Groove, the Funk, the Jazzy Greasy-Beat is no more! One of the very best B-3/Alto groups playing their hearts and soul out! And then the very elegantly drumming by Jimmie Smith pushing it swingingly along! These 4 Giants are by far the best. Just great stuff, so Dig folks, Enjoy & Cheers to these fabulous Jazz artists!
@@barbaraverveniotis5108 Mine also Barbara. They’re only a handful jazz-clubs left. I do watch the SmallsLive channel here on RU-vid with some great groups. Then Covid isn’t helping the performing arts scene. The world is changing rapidly. Be well, toodeloo’s & Cheers!
@@barbaraverveniotis5108 Live Jazz lives. Boston, NY, NOLA, Chicago, Memphis I'm sure Austin, NJ, LA. etc. Many diverse live venues, including in our hearland, lnclude jazz artists, great and small.
@@barbaraverveniotis5108 truly sad we continue to lose the legendary masters; the consolation is, their works are well preserved and available AND many, many torches have been passed.
EVERYONE in this group is STELLAR! The chemistry and "groovilisity" among the musicians is audibly palpable. Crawford and McGriff have been musical heroes forever, but I was taken to school on drummer Jimmy Smith. Don't know where guitarist Bob DeVos came from, but that guy's a keeper! So sorry at least half this ensemble is gone now. The audience here probably had no idea what they'd just witnessed...thanks for posting!
Allen Blasco Spot on Allen. The “forest’ of these great Jazz-talents are surely thinning out rather fast. It was the very best of Jazz times. Dig & Cheers!
This is jazz at its finest and one might say it just doesn't get any better than this. If this doesn't make you feel good just listening, I don't know what does, just more of this!
Hank Crawford is a GREAT VIRTUOSO ON THE ALTO SAX! A master of blues and swing, one of the truly original voices to arise on this instrument since the coming of BIRD!!!
I can't imagine the jam sessions in haven with so many great musicians there such as Jimmy, Miles, Ray Brown and Ray Charles, to just name a few, as well as the heavenly host. Wow !!! Too much to think about, brain overload.
This is incredible. Mc Griff playing Count Basie on the piano and kicking incredible bass at the same time on the B3. So much class. I used to see him often in California...dynamics, swing, feel, he had it all. Quite possibly the greatest Hammond organist who has ever lived.
It's foolish to characterize the musical affinity of a. Musician moreover any organist as better or best as it is a false. Or adjunct comparison to state music is a bit more. Deep than competition and stats. The artform is replete with nuanced. And varied life improving and validating aspects Of cathartic wisdom introspection into the vast repository of knowledge within the subconscious we know things that might otherwise never surface or occur Anyway in short a musical rhythm and l. Body of sound is a conduit for the radical energies of people to be culminated iinto an exponentially growing and solidifying wave of. Good energy. If you ebb and flow. In the groove not too aggressive nor apathetic allow the music to tell you when to. Push or allow the law of music to. Breathe and eventually even a novice can learn this. Simply by playing integrally and then pause to let the muses inform the magic I laugh at people who make such. Asinine comparison. There are actually multitudes of. Dynamite organ virtuoso in our world nowadays but all are almost for sure influenced by Jimmy Joey d'francesco Lonnie smith John medeski Barbara dennerlein TheHe organ demands to be played
Just love watching the drummer; he drums. so effortlessly and keeps the great beat. All of them are great ! I keep finding myself coming back to this session. Wish I was there jamming with them. Thanks for posting. They all look like they are having the time of their life, enjoying every note.
There was a Jazz dive on Washington Blvd & La Brea in LA where many of these same cats would groove... 'The Parisian Room... 'now a US Post Office Ray Charles Station
There is the beat, the groove, nothing but the immense power of that insistent beat. Add the fine tone, taste, skill, ideas and character of the artists in communion, well., that's it!.
Always a buzz when either Jimmy comin' to Scullers, Regattabar and Boston/Cambridge area clubs.. 1369 Jazz Club would annually have weeklong "organ orgy" : McGriff, Smth, Holmes, Patterson, Lonnie- a different legend every night. Very special indeed.
