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| Organ Blues [ ÉLŐ ] |
| Reuben Wilson |
| első megjelenés éve: 2002 |
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| (2002)
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| 3.821 Ft
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| 1. | Blues for McDuff
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| 2. | Please Send Me Someone to Love
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| 3. | Old Time Shuffle Blues
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| 4. | Back at the Chicken Shack
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| 5. | Honey Dripper
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| 6. | After Hours
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| 7. | Willow Weep for Me
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| 8. | Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
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Jazz
Soul-Jazz
Jazz-Funk
Recorded: Fluid, New York, New York
Rueben Wilson (Hammond B-3 organ), Arranger
Grant Green, Jr. (guitar); Melvin Butler (tenor saxophone); Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (drums)
* Preston Powell - Executive Producer, Photo Imaging, Producer
* Wayne Warnecke - Digital Mastering
Reuben's tribute to Jack McDuff, 'Blues For McDuff', provides a robust opener. It reveals classic excursions for Jazz Organ playing. 'Please Send Me Someone To Love', is nicely set in time with Reuben bending the groove to make us swing and sway. His 'Old Time Shuffle' reminds us that the beat makes all the difference in the world. It's Happy Music played with reverence and charm. Just about every Jazz Organist plays a Jimmy Smith head one time or another. It's almost irreverent to disregard the JOS factor. Reuben puts his own chickens in Jimmy's 'Back at the Chicken Shack'. It funky, it's bluesy and it's all Reuben Wilson. Since traditional Rhythm and Blues permeate this session, a perfect tune to add is 'Honey Dripper'. Here Reuben and company take us way back for some real fun. Toes be tappin' and hands be clappin'! 'After Hours' is another example of classic R & B resurrected for the lure of all Hammond organ addicts. The tune has had so many int! erpretations through the years but this one seems to want to stay in your mind. "Willow Weep For Me' is a slow, swirling ride that could be used for love making or any of many late night adventures.
Years ago when Louis Jordan sang, 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out', we all knew what he meant. The meaning may change depending upon the stock market but the feeling is always there. Reuben gives this ageless message a spirited quality and rollicking ride. Hope is the message and the Blues is the vehicle. With Reuben Wilson, the groove will continue to move forward.
Thanks goes to Reuben Wilson for this lesson in down-home music. It's REAL cause it's the Blues!
---Pete Fallico
Reuben Wilson is joined by guitarist Grant Green, Jr., tenor saxophonist Melvin Butler, and drummer Bernard Purdie for this no-frills set of soul-jazz and blues classics. (Wilson, Purdie, and Green, Jr. worked together on Masters of Groove Meet Dr. No, also on the Jazzateria label.) The four begin with a minor-key tribute to Jack McDuff ("Blues for McDuff"). A bit later they nod to another great jazz organist, Jimmy Smith, with a strutting "Back at the Chicken Shack." Other highlights include "Willow Weep for Me," "After Hours," and "Honey Dripper." Music like this is all about feel, and these musicians have plenty of it. But the preponderance of shuffle blues, it must be said, gets a tad monotonous. Even the closing track, "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," a 16-bar tune with a fair amount of harmonic movement, somehow winds up as a straight 12-bar blues during the solos, making it sound too much like everything else.
---David R. Adler, All Music Guide |
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