Honeydripper [Original recording remastered]

Brother Jack McDuff, KANKAWA-????????? | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 13, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 1961
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Prestige
• ASIN: B000F8DT8W
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #112,095 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Long Live The Captain !, January 26, 2001

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Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Honeydripper (Audio CD)

I'd been toying with the idea of reviewing this CD for a while, afterall, its probably one of the most important sessions from the entire Hammond B-3 legacy, but I held off because, well to be honest, what is there to say that The Captain didn't say in the music itself ? It needs no explaining (!) If you talk to almost any legit organist who followed in Jack McDuff's shadows (and playing that style of organ of course) he or she will probably tell you how he or she learned to play by grabbing licks and basslines off this album. Though his biggest hit was ROCK CANDY and my personal favorite Jack McDuff CD is definitely LIVE (he really rocks out on Another Good'un ! ! !), this CD clearly set the standard - - and the relaxed tempo grooves (unlike Jimmy Smith's penchant for frenzy) made this easier to study.

Well, now I come back to the Honeydripper. - - Just a day ago I was informed of his passing at the age of 74, so I know that I'll be taking a trip down memory lane. Jack McDuff of course lives on... practically anytime you hear a bluesy or swinging B3 played, The Captain is going to be somewhere in there and you will hear his influence. The truth however, merely experiencing his legacy is not enough. Unless you really dig down and rediscover his music directly, you're really depriving yourself of the groove... McDuff, plain and simple, played with feel... a funk soulful bluesy toe tapping swing that few have ever managed to capture... if you're a B-3 player, you can get as fancy as you want, but if you really want to be good, you have to come to know and understand the McDuff feel... and here it is.

Long live The Captain (and The Burner !)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good recording. A classic., September 16, 2000

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Braddock Jones (Rockville, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Honeydripper (Audio CD)

"The Honeydripper", the title track, has one of those lazy, underhanded shuffle beats that drummers today just don't play. Ben Dixon really knew how to propel an organ combo, as did Grant Green (guitar). This is one of Green's first appearances on record (if not the first, at least on a major label). Right after this, Green would make a series of recordings with Lou Donaldson, Jimmy Smith, Stanley Turrentine, Lee Morgan, and others on the Blue Note label, before starting a solo career. Jimmy Forrest rounds out the group on tenor. Very good, well rounded recording.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes Yes Yes, October 20, 2007

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Barbara R. Bonanno ""Cha Cha"" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Honeydripper (Audio CD)

This is the definitive Jack McDuff album. Intense, soulful, dramatic blues laden jazz- you can smell the perfume and smoke and soul food. Better still, you can hear that organ and the whole band is the best!