Soul Circle

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Soul Circle
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Studio album by
Jack McDuff
Released1968
RecordedJuly 1964, late 1965 and February 1966
New York City
Genre Soul jazz
Label Prestige
PR 7567
Producer Lew Futterman
Jack McDuff chronology
The Midnight Sun
(1963-66)		Soul Circle
(1968)		 I Got a Woman
(1964-66)
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Soul Circle is an album by organist Jack McDuff recorded between 1964 and 1966 and released on the Prestige label. [2]

Jack McDuff American musician

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.

Prestige Records American jazz record label

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under subsidiaries. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars. [1]

Track listing

All compositions by Jack McDuff except as indicated

  1. "More" (Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero) - 6:28
  2. "Lew's Piece" - 8:20
  3. "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) - 4:50
  4. "That's When We Thought of Love" (Harold Ousley) - 4:22
  5. "Opus de Funk" (Horace Silver) - 6:55

Personnel

Hammond organ electric organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Various models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to specify a variety of sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated sound by creating an electric current from rotating a metal tonewheel near an electromagnetic pickup, and then strengthening the signal with an amplifier so it can drive a speaker cabinet. Around two million Hammond organs have been manufactured. The organ is commonly used with, and associated with, the Leslie speaker.

Red Holloway American jazz tenor saxophonist

James Wesley "Red" Holloway was an American jazz saxophonist.

Harold Lomax Ousley was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist.

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References

  1. 1 2 Allmusic Review, January 21, 2013
  2. ↑ Jack McDuff discography accessed January 21, 2013
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