[HAM] Blindfold Test #5Toussaint saint49 at bellsouth.netWed Feb 28 04:33:31 CST 2007
This was one of my favorite recordings when I was in college, thanx for resurrecting it Scott~ I'm taking the fifth on this one yawl~ "T" ----- Original Message ----- From: "OF" <scott195 at centurytel.net> To: "The Hammond Forum" <hammond at zeni.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:47 PM Subject: [HAM] Blindfold Test #5 > [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! > > -- > Subscription Options/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.zeni.net/hf/ > Hammond-Leslie FAQ: http://theatreorgans.com/hammond/faq/ > HammondWiki: http://www.dairiki.org/HammondWiki/ > hammond at zk3.dec.com archives: http://zk3.hammondforum.com/ >
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