Artist: Brother Jack McDuff
Album: A Change Is Gonna Come
Genre: Soul-Jazz, Jazz-Funk
Label: Atlantic/Warner Japan/WEA/Rhino
Released: 1966/2012
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Down In The Valley (2:19)
- A Change Is Gonna Come (3:07)
- Hotcha (3:34)
- What'd I Say (2:35)
- No Tears (4:43)
- Gonna Hang Me Up A Sign (2:36)
- Minha Saudade (5:52)
- Same Old, Same Old (4:20)
- Can't Find The Keyhole Blues (7:16)
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- Personnel:
- Jack McDuff - org
- Johnny Grimes, Harold Johnson - tp
- Richard Harris - tb
- Danny Turner - as
- George Coleman, Arthur Clarke - ts
- Buddy Lucas - bars
- James Oliver - g
- Cornell Dupree - g, cga
- Jimmy Tyrell - b
- Bernard Purdie or Joe Dukes - d
- Warren Smith - perc
Features 24 bit remastering and comes with a mini-description. A sweet Atlantic soul groover from Brother Jack McDuff – and a set that has him tightening up his Hammond sound from his earlier years at Prestige Records! The tunes here are short and punched-up – almost instrumental soul numbers in their construction, but still filled with plenty of jazz – thanks to Jack's mad solos on organ, and some killer drums from Joe Dukes and Bernard Purdie! Other players include George Coleman on tenor, Cornell Dupree on guitar, and Buddy Lucas on baritone sax – and arrangements are by JJ Jackson and Jack himself.
This album is an elegant mix of soul and sambas, interspersed with a pair of distinctly blues-focused pieces. Jack McDuff's Hammond B-3 organ surges and trills and rocks, at times seeming to talk as the lead instrument on renditions of works as different as Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" and Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come." His calls and responses with the five-man brass section on several of the tracks here comprise another highlight, but even the slow numbers, such as "No Tears," offer virtuoso playing by McDuff. The tempo and texture shifts throughout keep this record continually interesting to the listener, and the range of influences, from jazz to gospel with side trips into the blues (culminating with a seven-minute epic in the latter genre), gives a lot of great playing for everybody.