Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff – Kirk’s Work (1961/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:18 minutes | 404 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prestige
Roland Kirk, the amazing one-man saxophone section and sublime soloist, had yet to add “Rahsaan” to his name when he recorded his first album for Prestige in 1961. It wasn’t yet quite clear to many, even people at the center of the jazz community, that Kirk’s gifts went considerably beyond the ability to play three horns at once.
Gradually, it began to dawn on one and all that the man’s almost superhuman energy and dedication were matched by musicianship based as firmly in tradition as in innovation. Eventually, it became possible to accept as parts of Kirk’s kaleidoscopic expression those odd instruments the manzello and the strich, not to mention the nose flute and kirkbam that he added later. And what a tenor saxophonist. Kirk’s Work is a milestone in the brief, brilliant career of a major artist.
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Jack McDuff – The Honeydripper (1961/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:33 minutes | 429 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Prestige
The blend of Hammond organ, tenor saxophone, guitar, and drums is one of the signature small-group sounds that have come to be identified with Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey studios in the last half-century. That sound is heard here in one of the definitive “organ-tenor” sessions. The Honeydripper, a blues-heavy program of impeccable groove and feeling, marks the moment at which Jack McDuff left his new star and featured sideman status behind and became a certified leading light and star-maker in his own right. McDuff did it with a superlative group featuring the drums of stalwart Ben Dixon, the tenor sax of Ellington alum and rhythm-and-blues pioneer Jimmy Forrest, and (in one of his first New York recordings) the then-unknown guitarist Grant Green. While never a working band, this foursome displayed an instant rapport that remains a model of B-3 synchronicity.
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