Big Wheel Posted March 8, 2003 Report Posted March 8, 2003 AMG makes this virtually unknown organist sound pretty damned impressive. Does the playing on "Feel Real" live up to the hype? Quote
Soul Stream Posted March 8, 2003 Report Posted March 8, 2003 This is an O.K album. The review overstates the case IMHO. If you want to hip yourself to an obscure organist. Check out Sam Lazar. His 3 lps for ARGO are wonderful. He's a guy NOBODY seems to remember. Do yourself a favor, take the money you were going to buy the Baccus CD for at www.dustygroove.com and instead buy "Playback" by Sam Lazar. It's much, much better IHHO. Others may disagree. Quote
mikeb Posted March 8, 2003 Report Posted March 8, 2003 I, for one, will agree with you, Soul Stream. Baccus' album is good, but Lazar has more soul, IMHO. Looked for a couple of years for SL's "Soul Merchant" on Argo. It was worth the wait to me! "Playback" is great. "Space Flight" is Lazar's other release, featuring Grant Green and with Willie Dixon (!!) on bass. Not up to the level of the other two, I think, but not bad by any means. Quote
JSngry Posted March 8, 2003 Report Posted March 8, 2003 This is a really wack idea, and I seriously doubt it could possibly be true, but some of Baccus' licks sound a LOT like Rahsaan's. Dorthaan Kirk wrote the liners, and I think Rahsaan produced the date for Smash (a Mercury subsidiary) during the time when he himselfwas signed to Mercury. I have a temptation every time I hear it (and I like it a bit more than y'all) to think that it's Rahsaan doing an organ record under a pseudonym! No way that could be, but it WOULD be sort of a Kirk-esque thing to do, no? Quote
Soul Stream Posted March 8, 2003 Report Posted March 8, 2003 In all honesty, I'll have to give this another spin. Haven't ever really listened too much to it. By the way, I heard Eddie's son is in Pieces of A Dream. Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted March 8, 2003 Report Posted March 8, 2003 This is a really wack idea, and I seriously doubt it could possibly be true, but some of Baccus' licks sound a LOT like Rahsaan's. Dorthaan Kirk wrote the liners, and I think Rahsaan produced the date for Smash (a Mercury subsidiary) during the time when he himselfwas signed to Mercury. I have a temptation every time I hear it (and I like it a bit more than y'all) to think that it's Rahsaan doing an organ record under a pseudonym! No way that could be, but it WOULD be sort of a Kirk-esque thing to do, no? That would be totally crazy. Why couldn't he do it? It's not that hard to play organ! Quote
Soul Stream Posted March 8, 2003 Report Posted March 8, 2003 I was looking for this today to give it another listen. Now I remember selling it. Well, guess I didn't dig it that much. I was going through a "purge if you don't listen to it" campaign a while back. The Baccuss fell victim to it. Quote
JSngry Posted March 8, 2003 Report Posted March 8, 2003 That would be totally crazy. Why couldn't he do it? It's not that hard to play organ! Well, if anybody would or COULD do it, it would be Rahsaan, he of the gifts far beyond mortal men. But seriously, Baccus was from, where, Cleveland? Toledo? Somewhere in Ohio...same as Rahsaan. Interesting to hear the common linkage there, maybe sort of a regional dialect of sorts. You don't hear that today as much as you once did. Quote
Soul Stream Posted March 9, 2003 Report Posted March 9, 2003 I did find this (it was hidden.) Gave it a spin. Have to say I was wrong. Baccus was a really gifted and unique organist. I liked it quite a bit when I listened this morning. Good stuff. Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted March 9, 2003 Report Posted March 9, 2003 I'll have to dig this out and listen again myself. What happened to this cat anyhow? Quote
Bill Fenohr Posted March 9, 2003 Report Posted March 9, 2003 B3er, Your dad probably caught Eddie back in the day as he used to play the Trop. three or four times a year. I can remember him coming in with Joe DiOrio(sp?) and Wilbur Campbell. Quote
mikeb Posted March 10, 2003 Report Posted March 10, 2003 According to the notes for this album, Baccus was from N.C., but went to school in Columbus, Ohio, and played with Kirk out of Cleveland for awhile. Quote
jodigrind Posted March 10, 2003 Report Posted March 10, 2003 Interesting find--Eddie Baccus appears as "blind pianist" in the recent movie "Antwoine Fisher". I would be interested to hear how this came to be. Quote
JSngry Posted March 10, 2003 Report Posted March 10, 2003 According to the notes for this album, Baccus was from N.C., but went to school in Columbus, Ohio, and played with Kirk out of Cleveland for awhile. Yeah, which leads to the question about the occasional similarities in his and Rahsaan's style, who influenced whom? Or maybe even, who influenced THEM? These "regional dialects" are really intriguing sometimes. A similar question could be asked about Trane & Jimmy Smith in the Philly days. Ultimately, I think it's a "community" thing, but you know SOMEBODY had to have laid down the roots in a particular area. Stuff just don't happen out of thin air, does it? Oh, for a time machine... Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted March 10, 2003 Report Posted March 10, 2003 Interesting find--Eddie Baccus appears as "blind pianist" in the recent movie "Antwoine Fisher". I would be interested to hear how this came to be. Where does Antwone Fisher take place? Maybe someone in the screenwriting process was a jazz nut, but determined that they couldn't have a jazz organist 'cos that would be too weird. Quote
jodigrind Posted March 10, 2003 Report Posted March 10, 2003 The scenes took place in Cleveland. Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted March 10, 2003 Report Posted March 10, 2003 That's too coincedental to be just a coincedence. Someone involved in the writing of that movie must be a jazz nut! Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted January 23, 2008 Report Posted January 23, 2008 He's still active: Interesting clip. Swung very well that band. MG Quote
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