[HAM] Blindfold Test #5OF scott195 at centurytel.netTue Feb 27 21:47:33 CST 2007
[also posted to "Organ-ized"] OK jazz organ aficionados and finger-poppers, It's time to play Organfreak's Jazz Organ Blindfold Test again! I'm reaching way back into my obscure dusty piles this time-- this one is hard to guess. I used my usual 'pop-and-click-remover,' but the record is over forty years old, so it doesn't sound like the CDs you're used to. This is an interesting original tune in Gm by the leader. I have played it myself, for years, in my own groups. The bridge is quaintly-sixties-Lady-Madonna-ish, but the rest of it is hip as hell, especially the super-cool ending. WOW! This organist and composer is close to being forgotten now, which is one reason I bring him up. OK, it's a "him." The record was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, and the organ sounds like JOS's old organ from the fifties that had the famously-broken percussion. This one's hard, as I said, so here are a few more hints: It is NOT: Jimmy Smith Jack McDuff Jimmy McGriff Jimmy Dean Ethel Smith Medeski Fat Frank down at the Elbow Room The full 8 minutes, 7.76 MBs. <http://www.organfreak.com/listen/BlindfoldTestNo5-full.mp3> A lower-quality version with the sax and guitar solos cut out, 3.9 MBs. <http://www.organfreak.com/listen/BlindfoldTestNo5-edit.mp3> Even if you can't guess, lemme know how you like it!
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