| Check This Out | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Recorded | 1972 | |||
| Venue | The Mandrake Club, Berkeley, California | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Cadet CA 50024 | |||
| Producer | Esmond Edwards | |||
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Check This Out is a live album by organist Jack McDuff recorded in Berkeley, California in 1972 and released on the Cadet label. [1] [2]
Eugene McDuff, known professionally as "Brother" Jack McDuff or "Captain" Jack McDuff, was an American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who was most prominent during the hard bop and soul jazz era of the 1960s, often performing with an organ trio. He is also credited with giving guitarist George Benson his first break.
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2010 census recorded a population of 112,580.
Cadet Records was an American record label that began as Argo Records in 1955 as the jazz subsidiary of Chess Records. Argo changed its name in 1965 to Cadet to avoid confusion with the similarly named label in the UK. Cadet stopped releasing records around 1974, when its artists were moved to Chess.
