(Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz) [LP] [24/192] Brother Jack McDuff - Tobacco Road - 1966/2019, FLAC (tracks)

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foobar2000 1.6.13 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
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Analyzed: Brother Jack McDuff / Tobacco Road
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR14 -1.63 dB -17.83 dB 2:06 01-Teardrops from My Eyes
DR14 -0.89 dB -18.88 dB 3:00 02-Tobacco Road
DR15 -3.41 dB -23.15 dB 3:54 03-The Shadow of Your Smile
DR17 -1.60 dB -20.62 dB 5:14 04-Can't Get Satisfied
DR13 -2.41 dB -18.38 dB 2:40 05-Blowin' in the Wind
DR13 -0.98 dB -18.39 dB 4:13 06-And the Angels Sing
DR15 -1.05 dB -21.73 dB 2:38 07-This Bitter Earth
DR14 -4.17 dB -20.25 dB 6:00 08-Alexander's Ragtime Band
DR13 -0.99 dB -17.45 dB 4:36 09-Wade in the Water
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Number of tracks: 9
Official DR value: DR14
Samplerate: 192000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 5299 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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»Imitation, assimilation, innovation.« With these three words the great Clark Terry summed up the art of leaning musical improvisation. Salvador Dalí, the artist who melted time in his colourful and bizarre works, stated radically that a person who didn’t want to copy others would never manage to accomplish anything at all.
Brother Jack McDuff did plenty of copying and refined the good old standards on his “Tobacco Road” and made them blossom anew. Jack taught himself to play the organ and went on to transform the popular melody “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” into what one might call roughened up ball house jazz, were it not for the contrary saxophone, which soars over rasping organ clusters. For Brother Jack such spiritual sounds as in “And The Angels Sing” and his somewhat slanted version of the musing, dreamy “Wade In The Water” were an absolute must. It really rocks in “Can’t Get Satisfied”, a gospel-like and delicately instrumentalised version of the blues evergreen. The organ does not necessarily always have the last word in this colourful mixture, but it is always very present as regards the sound and the distribution of the parts. And just once does McDuff let the instrument sing out on its glassy top register in “The Shadow Of Your Smile”.

Jack McDuff - organ
Fred Berry, King Kolax - trumpet (#1,2,5,7)
John Watson - trombone (#1,2,5,7)
Red Holloway - tenor saxophone (#1,2,5,7)
Danny Turner - tenor saxophone, flute (#3,4,6,8,9)
Lonnie Simmons - baritone saxophone (#1,2,5,7)
Bobby Christian - vibraphone, percussion (#1,2,5,7)
Roland Faulkner (#1,2,5,7), Calvin Green (#3,4,6,8,9) - guitar
Loyal J. Gresham - electric bass (#1,2,5,7)
Bob Guthrie (#1,2,5,7), Joe Dukes (#3,4,6,8,9) - drums
J.J. Jackson - conductor (#1,2,5,7)
Recorded at Chess Studios, Chicago, IL on August 22-23, 1966.