Brother Jack McDUFF - A Change Is Gonna Come 1966 (REPOST)

Brother Jack McDUFF - A Change Is Gonna Come 1966 (REPOST)
Label: Atlantic
VINYL LP

Blues

Eugene McDuffy, 17 September 1926, Champaign, Illinois, USA, d. 25 January 2001, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. McDuff adopted a professional name that reflected the racial consciousness of the 60s. Self-taught on piano, he became adept on the Hammond organ, an instrument associated with the church and hence with black music at its most heated. He took time out from touring to study music in Cincinnati, Ohio before linking up with various R&B bands from 1948. McDuff formed his own jazz group in 1954, playing throughout the Midwest, often in association with saxophonist Johnny Griffin. In 1957, he broke up the unit and left music, but returned the following year as a bass player.
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A marvelous bandleader and organist as well as capable arranger, "Brother" Jack McDuff has one of the funkiest, most soulful styles of all time on the Hammond B-3. His rock-solid basslines and blues-drenched solos are balanced by clever, almost pianistic melodies and interesting progressions and phrases. McDuff began as a bassist playing with Denny Zeitlin and Joe Farrell. He studied privately in Cincinnati and worked with Johnny Griffin in Chicago. He taught himself organ and piano in the mid-'50s, and began gaining attention working with Willis Jackson in the late '50s and early '60s, cutting high caliber soul-jazz dates for Prestige. McDuff made his recording debut as a leader for Prestige in 1960, playing in a studio pickup band with Jimmy Forrest. They made a pair of outstanding albums: Tough Duff and The Honeydripper. McDuff organized his own band the next year, featuring Harold Vick and drummer Joe Dukes. Things took off when McDuff hired a young guitarist named George Benson. They were among the most popular combos of the mid-'60s and made several excellent albums. McDuff's later groups at Atlantic and Cadet didn't equal the level of the Benson band, while later dates for Verve and Cadet were uneven, though generally good. McDuff experimented with electronic keyboards and fusion during the '70s, then in the '80s got back in the groove with the Muse session Cap'n Jack. While his health fluctuated throughout the '90s, McDuff released several discs on the Concord Jazz label before succumbing to heart failure on January 23, 2001, at the age of 74.
By Ron Wynn and Bob Porter, All Music Guide.
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Part 1

01.DOWN IN THE VALLEY
02.A CHANGE IS GONNA COME
03.HOTCHA
04.WHAT'D I SAY
05.NO TEARS

Part 2

06.GONNA HANG ME UP A SIGN
07.MINHA SAUDADE
08.SAME OLD, SAME OLD
09.CAN'T FIND THE KEYHOLE BLUES
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