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I'm sorry, I guessed wrong what shitty band this is....it's even worse than Little River Band (if that's possible) IT'S DR. HOOK!!!! (WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN)...the crappiest song in the world only next to "The Pina Colada Song" by Rupert Holmes....

I bought a Lonnie Smith 8 track of "Think" and when I put it in...the tape itself is some crappy Little River Band album! Damn 8 tracks!

Does anybody have a 66, 67, 68, 69 or 70 readers poll? I'd like to know the results of the organists for those years. I'm curious is Patton every rose higher. Especially after albums like Let Em Roll, That Certain Feeling, Accent on the Blues and Understanding came out.

Jimmy dominated that catagory fooooorever. And rightly so. I mean the gap between number one and number two was huge for many, many years. I don't think any other single musician dominated their catagory throughout their career as much as Jimmy did. I was actually surprised at how many votes Shirley Scott got at number two. And Jack McDuff was right in the mix too. Right on Brother Jack!

...also from my 1965 issue of Dowbeat... ...the Ad Lib section which tells what's happening in each of the major jazz cities... Pittsburgh- Organ trios continue to be the rage among Pittsburgh's young jazz fans, who flocked to The Hurricane in early November to hear Shirley Scott with Stanley Turrentine's group followed the next week by Grant Green's group with John Patton and Ben Dixon. ....oh those were the days I guess...

Yeah, I guess so...but you would have thought at least Into Something and Grant's "Talkin' About" albums would have put him past Clare Fischer...

Well, if you think about it...Larry Young put out UNITY in 1965 and placed 2 spots behind Clare Fischer for chissakes! So, I'm not surprised John placed so low. As a matter of fact, previously I had heard he had never placed in a Downbeat poll....so, I'm not sure if he ever placed again or if I was misinformed.

Place Votes 1. Jimmy Smith 3705 2. Shirley Scott 488 3. Jack McDuff 185 4. Wild Bill Davis 154 5. Clare Fischer (wtf?) 154 6. Count Basie (?) 119 7. Larry Young 112 8. Don Patterson 86 9. Groove Holmes 68 10. Freddie Roach 56 11. Ray Charles (?) 50 12. Jimmy McGriff 39 13. Mel Rhyne 39 14. Joe Mooney (wtf?) 37 15. Earl Grant 36 16. John Patton 36 Pretty interesting. According to the magazine, Larry Young, Don Patterson, Jimmy McGriff, Mel Rhyne and John Patton had never even been in the top results until that year!

I thought Joey Defrancesco had Larry Young's organ? The one Larry used on Emergency? I remember Joey saying something about it had the same broken key, ect.... I can't remember where I saw this. O.K...now where is Don Patterson's organ!!!

Suit & Tie Guy, I don't know who you are...but if you were a girl, I'd marry you. Couldn't agree more on all counts. And Swedish Lullabye..never heard it...but sounds awesome.

Does Mark Murphy still have a hideous mullet?

Well, it's not vinyl...but it's close....an 8 track of Jimmy Smith's "Open House."

Johnny Hammond Smith is such a badass that doesn't get talked about enough. He had it all!!!!!

It's so amazing what they do on The Tackle....I mean that head...based on that tune. You'd never guess, 'cause those guys are such geniuses. Rhythmic, harmonic genius in action. Once they get through that crazy head, they're just burning up What Is This Thing Called Love.

WOWWWWWW!!!!! THANKS!!!!!! That's just incredible.

GA, that first cut...The Tackle... is a contrafact of "What Is This Thing Called Love", so once you get past the head, ...the rest of the song might be more fun to listen to if you think of it that way.

The notes of Giant Steps come to life. Really interesting to see the sheet music along with the music.

Up for air... Put this on again this morning and am maybe even more appreciative a year later after it's release. Truely wonderful. Hutcherson and DeFrancesco are such a great pairing, and George Coleman. I hope these guys team up again soon for a recording. A real masterpiece.

Has no one but me heard this recording? I guess it really did fly under the radar, but I would have thought somebody else on the board might have it.

...oh yeah...I actually always forget there's a Hammond Zone. It' so far down on the screen, I think it and misc. non-political don't show up on my computer screen right away that I just forget about it. Sorry 'bout that! I'm not familiar with Frank Perowski, but I REALLY dig him on this.

Ben Perowski the drummer made a recording a few years back with his Tenor/Clarinetist father Frank and organist Sam Yahel called "Bop On Pop" (probably sold 10 copies). This has been one of my favorite new release organ records of the last few years imho. All the players just get down to business in a purely professional way and the empathy between them wonderful. It's just a set of standards...some bop, blues, ballads, ect...but the playing is just superb. Sam Yahel has made plenty of recordings, but I think this one really opened my eyes to what a real monster he is since it's in very tradition organ tradition of which I'm more familiar with There's nothing over the top or "amazing" in a 'the incredible jimmy smith' kind of way in what he's doing. But the 'craft' (I hate using that word) is at a very high level. Definately more along the lines of Patton on some of his later things and Larry Young on "I want to Hold Your Hand." Subtle swing, thoughtful accompanyment and harmonically intriguing soloing on his part. Anyway, I've really dug this CD for quite a while and thought I'd share it with you guys....

Bad sound? I don't hear that from the Select at all.... Considering what you have already the Select will really fill a lot of holes for you. The Way I Feel, Oh Baby, That Certain Feeling and Understanding. DUDE, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR. YOU'RE THE PERFECT CANDIDATE TO GET THE SELECT! You're really missing out on some GREAT music right now.

It's hard to make someone like a musician's style. I guess I would just suggest listening to it on it's own without measuring it against anything else. It is a classic. Earland has a distinctive and hard-driving style all his own. I'm a real fan of this record and what Earland does is on it downright masterful imho. The Age Of Aquarius is my favorite cut outside of his hit More Today Than Yesterday. Give it a chance to sink in.

John said Pharoah played pretty "inside" on those gigs....

They did play together in the mid 80's at a place called Sparky J's in Newark (it was once the famous organ room The Key Club). The trio was John Patton, Pharaoh Sanders and George Brown on drums. Patton and Sanders were good friends in that they lived in the same building during this time and had a day to day relationship.