[HAM] Blindfold Test #5

OF scott195 at centurytel.net
Tue 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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