To Seek a New Home

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To Seek a New Home
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Studio album by
Brother Jack McDuff
Released1970
RecordedMarch 23-26, 1970
Genre Jazz
Length33:12
Label Blue Note
Brother Jack McDuff chronology
Moon Rappin'
(1969)		To Seek a New Home
(1970)		 Who Knows What Tomorrow's Gonna Bring?
(1970)

To Seek a New Home is an album by American organist Brother Jack McDuff recorded in England in 1970 and released on the Blue Note label. [1]

Jack McDuff American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader

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.

Blue Note Records American record label

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derives its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz. Although the original company did not record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars. [2]

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Track listing

All compositions by Jack McDuff except as indicated
  1. "Yellow Wednesday" - 6:35
  2. "Come and Carry Me Home" - 4:48
  3. "Mystic John" - 5:11
  4. "Hunk O' Funk" (J.J. Jackson, McDuff) - 6:20
  5. "Seven Keys for Seven Doors" - 10:18
  • Recorded at Island Studios, London, England on March 23 (track 2), March 24 (track 3), March 25 (track 5), and March 26 (tracks 1 & 4), 1970.

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Trombone type of brass instrument

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References

  1. ↑ Blue Note Records discography accessed December 3, 2010
  2. 1 2 Allmusic Review accessed December 3, 2010
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