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| 1. | N'Orleans
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| 2. | Too Damn Hot
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| 3. | Back Track
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| 4. | The Whip
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| 5. | Silver Serenade
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| 6. | Track 9
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| 7. | One Cylinder
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| 8. | Someday My Prince Will Come
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| 9. | Your Mama's Got a Complex
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| 10. | Evil Turn
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Jazz
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Fukushi Tainaka - Drums
Gregory Hutchinson - Drums
Peter Bernstein - Guitar
Rodney Jones - Guitar (Rhythm)
* Matt Balitsaris - Engineer, Producer
Hammond B-3 boss Dr. Lonnie Smith ends up on yet another new label with Too Damn Hot!, the follow-up to his thoroughly enjoyable -- if curious -- Boogaloo to Beck outing from 2003. This studio set places the organist in the company of two fine guitarists -- Peter Bernstein (lead) and Rodney Jones (rhythm), and alternating drummers Greg Hutchinson and Fukushi Tainaka. The two-guitar format is lovely in that it presents a wide array of colors and harmonic textures to the proceedings. The material is a compendium of new soul-jazz originals like the title track, which is a sultry slow burner with killer chorded solos by Smith, and "The Whip," a slippery funky hard bopper that recalls Johnny Patton's sessions with Grant Green. There are two covers present here as well, a fine version of Horace Silver's ballad "Silver Serenade" and a whimsical read of "Someday My Prince Will Come." The album's final cut, "Evil Turn," cooks like mad in stunning bop fashion. This is a keeper and Smith's best record of the decade so far.
---Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Ballads, Crossover Jazz, Fusion, Hard Bop, Jazz Blues, Jazz-Funk, Post-Bop, Soul-Jazz
Organist Lonnie Smith has often been confused with keyboardist/pianist Lonnie Liston Smith -- and, in fact, more than a few retailers have wrongly assumed that they're one and the same. In the mid-'60s, the Hammond hero earned recognition for his membership in George Benson's classic quartet before going on to play with Lou Donaldson (contributing some memorable solos to the alto saxman's hit 1967 album Alligator Bogaloo) and recording enjoyable dates of his own for Blue Note. For all their accessibility and commercial appeal, funk-influenced Smith sessions like 1968's Think and 1970's Drives showed that he could be quite imaginative. Smith, who later became Dr. Lonnie Smith (for "no particular reason", the same reason he gives for why he always wears a turban), remained an inspired representative of soul-jazz and did some solid work with Donaldson in the '90s.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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