[HAM] Blindfold Test #7 Already

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I just felt like it. Those with long memories may remember this cut from 
here, years back. You're disqualified if you remember who played it. 
Buddies of mine who have been by the house recently (ahem) are also 
disqualified. But this is one I find terrifically exciting, and it's too 
damn fast to be believed. Let me say again, it's not really a contest, it's 
a good excuse to put up some good old, obscure organ jazz. This old vinyl 
cleaned up well.

OK, it can't be Jimmy Smith because he just didn't play this way. It's not 
Jack McDuff or Groove Holmes either, because they just didn't have the 
chops to do this. (And I'd like to meet anyone who does.) Well, actually, 
Groove almost achieved this speed on "On the Street Where You Live," but 
only once. The player is less well-known compared to the above, but 
certainly not unheard of. Another thing that's unfair about this BF Test is 
that this player's records don't usually sound like this, that is, the 
playing. After we ID the tune, if somebody reminds me, I will tell you how 
I can recognize this player real quick. He does something when he comps 
that most jazz organists do not, but old-time players did it a lot. That's 
no help as a hint for you, but it does it for me.

The tune begins "Latin" at a breakneck pace, with the bridge played in 
straight-ahead time, and then the solos are straight-ahead all the way 
after that. By now the tempo is at breakneck++. The sax soloist is Houston 
Person, I don't mind revealing, and you can hear him think twice before 
going ahead with his solo after the first phrase, but he makes it through. 
The whole point of this clip is the ridiculous organ solo beginning at 
2:02. Besides the intelligent harmonizations of the changes (with lots of 
blues licks thrown in), and the really distinctive staccato touch, I really 
love this solo. Besides, it's exciting. Will he fall the rest of the way 
downstairs? Tune in and see.

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