Down Home Style

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Down Home Style
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Studio album by
Brother Jack McDuff
Released1969
RecordedJune 10, 1969
Genre Jazz
Length38:59
Label Blue Note
Producer Lew Futterman, Larry Rogers
Brother Jack McDuff chronology
Gin and Orange
(1968)		Down Home Style
(1969)		 Moon Rappin'
(1969)

Down Home Style is an album by American organist Brother Jack McDuff recorded in 1969 and released on the Blue Note label. [1]

Jack McDuff American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader

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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.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 4 stars and stated "A set of gritty electric funk and soulful blues, Down Home Style is an excellent showcase for Brother Jack McDuff's gripping, funky style... the record is designed as a showcase for McDuff's wild, intoxicating Hammond organ, and he runs with the it, demonstrating every one of his tricks". [2]

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Track listing

All compositions by Jack McDuff except as indicated
  1. "The Vibrator" - 4:48
  2. "Down Home Style" - 5:06
  3. "Memphis in June" (Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster) - 4:16
  4. "Theme from Electric Surfboard" - 3:34
  5. "It's All a Joke" - 3:48
  6. "Butter (For Yo Popcorn)" - 4:08
  7. "Groovin'" (Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere) - 5:18
  8. "As She Walked Away" - 8:01

Personnel

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References

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