Re: ^Groove^

[bpb@bpbsn.cca.rockwell.com (Brad Baker)]

>>>>> "Gilles" == Gilles Bacon <gilles@netcom.com> writes:


    Gilles> Is the FAQ near ready?  I'd love to see it regardless!


The FAQ is nearly ready. I'm waiting on a couple of things, one of
which is the all-important discography.

The (in)Complete Discography includes Every Recording Ever Made That
Has Hammond Organ As A Major Instrument. I don't know if it will fit
in the FAQ but i'm going to include it, at least initially.

The Essential Discography is the one that the submitter gives a 4*
rating, presuming that's his best rating. Does this get included as a
separate entry? I don't know yet.


Well, here goes. I'm a chicken. I'll withold my complete rating of
them for the moment and just indicate the 4* selections. Please feel
free to argue them any way you wish. I enjoy most of these immensely.
My own criteria in rating was to pick selections that a new-comer to
the Hammond might respond well to, and not someone quite so fanatical
about _that sound_.



Category: Jazz
  
      Count Basie:
        "Super Chief", Columbia 31224
      
      Milt Buckner:
        "Rockin' Again", Jamie (919 N. Broad St. Phil. PA 19123) 5012
      
      Barbara Dennerlein
        "Straight Ahead", enja R1 79608, dist. by Rhino

      Bill Doggett:
        "Bill Doggett and His Combo Play", Starday (1900 Elm Hill Pike,
        Nashville, TN 37210), 3023.
      
      Charles Earland:
        "Infant Eyes", Muse 5181
        "Kharma", Prestige (dist by Fantasy), 10095
        "Living Black!", Prestige, 10009
*       "Mama Roots", Muse MR5156
      
      Joey DeFrancesco:
*       "Reboppin'", Columbia, CK 48624
*       "Live at the Five Spot", Columbia, CK 53805
        "All About My Girl", Muse, 5528
        
      Groove Holmes:
        "Soul Message", Prestige, 17435
      
      Jack McDuff:
        "The Honeydripper", Prestige, OJC-222
        "Hot Barbecue", Prestige, 7422
        "Grant Stand", w/Grant Green, Bluenote, 84085
        "George Benson, Jack McDuff", w/George Benson, Prestige P-24072
*       "Stitt Meets Brother Jack", w/Sonny Stitt, Prestige PR7244
      
      Jimmy McGriff
        "The Countdown", Milestone (dist. by Fantasy), 9116
        "Skywalk", Milestone, 9126
        "Soul Survivors", Milestone, 9142
      
      John Medeski (Medeski, Martin, & Wood):
        "It's a Jungle In Here", Gramavision, R2 79495
      
      Don Patterson:
        "The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson", Prestige, 7331
        "Hip Cake Walk", Prestige, 7349
      
      John Patton:
        "Got a Good Thing Goin'", Bluenote 4229
*       "Let 'em Roll", Bluenote, BST84239
*       "The Natural Soul", w/Lou Donaldson, Bluenote, 84108
      
      Shirley Scott:
        "A Chip Off The Old Block", w/Stanley Turrentine, Bluenote, 84150
        "Common Touch", w/Stanley Turrentine, Bluenote, 84315
*       "Hustlin'", w/Stanley Turrentine, Bluenote, 84162
        "Superstition", Cadet, CA50036
      
      Jimmy Smith:
        "A New Sound, A New Star", Bluenote, BST81514
        "Back at the Chicken Shack", Bluenote, 84117
        "Best Of Jimmy Smith", Bluenote, 91140
        "Best of Jimmy Smith", Verve VG-8721
        "Bucket!", Bluenote, 84235
        "Cool Blues", Bluenote, LT1054
*       "Crazy! Baby", Bluenote 84030
        "Home Cookin'", Bluenote, 84050
*       "House Party", Bluenote 46546
*       "Organ Grinder Swing, Verve, 2074, 825675-2
*       "Prayer Meetin'", Bluenote, 84164
        "Rockin' the Boat", Bluenote, 84141
*       "The Sermon", Bluenote, 46097
*       "Sum Serious Blues", Milestone MCD 9207-2
        "The Master", Bluenote, CDP 7243 8 30451 2 9
      
      Lonnie Smith:
        "Willow Weep For Me", w/George Benson, CBS, S-63533
      
      Fats Waller:
       "A Legendary Performer", RCA, 2904
      
      Larry Young:
        "Contrasts", Bluenote, 84266
*       "Unity", Bluenote, 84221
      
      Baby Face Willette:
        "Here Tis'", w/Lou Donaldson, Bluenote, 84066

Regards,

Bradley Baker
bpb@mlb.cca.rockwell.com