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Jazz organist ‘Brother’ Jack McDuff (born Eugene McDuffy in 1926 September 17, 1926 – January 23, 2001) was second only to the infamous Jimmy Smith in terms of fame and the impact he made with the King of keyboard instruments - the Hammond B-3 Organ. Self-taught on the organ, he recorded with Willis Jackson & Roland Kirk in the late ’50s and early ’60s, cutting high calibre souljazz dates for Prestige Records, and later Argo / Cadet. Blue Note and Verve Records. McDuff can also take the credit for launching the career of a particularly gifted young jazz guitarist when he recruited George Benson to his own quartet, which resulted in Benson's first solo deal in the mid 1960’s.
‘Live At Parnells’ is made up of 15 tracks selected from a week-long engagement in June 1982, featuring Danny Wollinski on sax, guitarist Henry Johnson and Garrick King on the drums. Stylistically, Jack and his group cover a lot of ground, especially for an organ quartet – from beautifully old school funky, gritty blues with tracks like Walkin’ The Dog & Blues 1 & 8, jazz standards like April In Paris, and A Night In Tunisia through to some frenetic and distinctly edgy fast paced jazz fusion type numbers - Make It Good and Untitled D Minor - and this reflects how Jack's ears were open to the newer, freer sounds that had developed in jazz and reflected in some of his recordings as ‘The Heatin’ System’ – as several tracks have modal and fusion touches that sound remarkably current.
Listeners will still hear in places, remnants of the original tapes imperfections, but that just adds to the magic...
Tracklist
3LP Tracklist
LP1
A1.Make It Good
A2. Untitled D Minor
A3. Déjà vu
B1. Fly Away
B2. Another Real Goodun’
LP2
C1. Blues In The Night
C2. Satin Doll
D1. A Night In Tunisia
D2. Killer Joe
LP3
E1. Greensleeves
E2. Take The A Train
E3. Wives & Lovers
F1. Walkin’ The Dog
F2. Lover Man
F3. Blues 1 & 8
CD Tracklist
CD 1
1. Make It Good
2. Untitled D Minor
3. Deja vu
4. Fly Away
5. Another Real Goodun’
6. Blues In The Night
7. Satin Doll
8. A Night In Tunisia
CD 2
1. Killer Joe
2. Greensleeves
3. Take The A Train
4. Wives & Lovers
5. Walkin’ The Dog
6. Lover Man
7. Blues 1 & 8
Soundwave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivYFzlapYTA