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| 1. | Deja Vu
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| 2. | Memorial Day
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| 3. | What Love Has Joined
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| 4. | South Philly Groove
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| 5. | On the Stairs
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| 6. | The Closer I Get to You
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| 7. | The Summit
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| 8. | Pick Up the Pieces
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Jazz
Charles Earland
Bob DeVos - Guitar
Eric Alexander - Sax (Tenor)
Jim Rotondi - Trumpet
Joey DeFrancesco - Organ (Hammond)
Pat Martino - Guitar
Vince Ector - Drums, Producer
* J. Flint - Photography
* Joe Fields - Executive Producer
* Keiji Obata - Design
* Maureen Sickler - Assistant Engineer
* Rudy Van Gelder - Engineer, Mastering, Mixing
The difference between a 'memorial' and 'tribute' may seem trivial but the fact of the matter is a memorial looks back to the past, where a tribute is very much of the present. Here is a collection sidemen who knew, loved and worked with the Mighty Burner himself, Charles Earland. Guitarist Pat Martino, who played some of his earliest gigs with Charles' band, is on hand along with Joey DeFrancesco, the heir apparent to the Earland crown. Earland's regular band alumni Eric Alexander, James Rotondi, Bob DeVos, Vince Ector and Kevin Jones round out the ensemble. Rather than look back with tear-filled eyes, this group has decided to pay tribute to the musical legacy Charles left behind which is very much alive and as vibrant today as it was when Charles was at the keyboard. "Keepers of the Flame" is an appropriate title - for these musicians keep the sound of the Mighty Burner at high heat and burning brightly for all to enjoy.
Charles Earland
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: May 24, 1941 in Philadelphia, PA
Died: Dec 11, 1999 in Kansas City, MO
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop, Jazz Blues, Mainstream Jazz
Charles Earland came into his own at the tail end of the great 1960s wave of soul-jazz organists, gaining a large following and much airplay with a series of albums for the the Prestige label. While heavily indebted to Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff, Earland came armed with his own swinging, technically agile, light-textured sound on the keyboard and one of the best walking-bass pedal techniques in the business. Though not an innovative player in his field, Earland burned with the best of them when he was on.
Earland actually started his musical experiences surreptitiously on his father's alto sax as a kid, and when he was in high school, he played baritone in a band that also featured fellow Philadelphians Pat Martino on guitar, Lew Tabackin on tenor, and yes, Frankie Avalon on trumpet. After playing in the Temple University band, he toured as a tenor player with McGriff for three years, became infatuated with McGriff's organ playing, and started learning the Hammond B-3 at intermission breaks. When McGriff let him go, Earland switched to the organ permanently, forming a trio with Martino and drummer Bobby Durham. He made his first recordings for Choice in 1966, then joined Lou Donaldson for two years (1968-69) and two albums before being signed as a solo artist to Prestige. Earland's first album for Prestige, Black Talk!, became a best-selling classic of the soul-jazz genre; a surprisingly effective cover of the Spiral Starecase's pop/rock hit "More Today Than Yesterday" from that LP received saturation airplay on jazz radio in 1969. He recorded eight more albums for Prestige, one of which featured a young unknown Philadelphian named Grover Washington, Jr., then switched to Muse before landing contracts with Mercury and Columbia. By this time, the organ trio genre had gone into eclipse, and in the spirit of the times, Earland acquired some synthesizers and converted to pop/disco in collaboration with his wife, singer/songwriter Sheryl Kendrick. Kendrick's death from sickle-cell anemia in 1985 left Earland desolate, and he stopped playing for awhile, but a gig at the Chickrick House on Chicago's South Side in the late '80s brought him out of his grief and back to the Hammond B-3. Two excellent albums in the old soul-jazz groove for Milestone followed, and the '90s found him returning to the Muse label. Earland died of heart failure on December 11, 1999, the morning after playing a gig in Kansas City; he was 58.
--- Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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