Jack McDuff - Down Home Style
Released - 1969
Recording and Session Information
Memphis, TN, June 10, 1969
Jay Arnold, tenor sax; Brother Jack McDuff, organ; Charlie Freeman, guitar; unknown, electric bass; Sammy Greason, drums; unidentified large band, #2,3,6.
4467 The Vibrator
4468 Down Home Style
4469 Memphis In June
4470 Theme From Electric Surfboard
4471 It's All A Joke
4472 Butter (For Yo Popcorn)
4473 Groovin' (On A Sunday Afternoon)
4474 As She Walked Away
Track Listing
| Side One | ||
| Title | Author | Recording Date |
| The Vibrator | Jack McDuff | June 10 1969 |
| Down Home Style | Jack McDuff | June 10 1969 |
| Memphis in June | Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster | June 10 1969 |
| Theme from Electric Surfboard | Jack McDuff | June 10 1969 |
| Side Two | ||
| It's All a Joke | Jack McDuff | June 10 1969 |
| Butter (For Yo Popcorn) | Jack McDuff | June 10 1969 |
| Groovin' | Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere | June 10 1969 |
| As She Walked Away | Jack McDuff | June 10 1969 |
Liner Notes
Get into conversations with people in all walks of life: get them to talk about the current musical trend. What they dig, and why. Believe me, after a short survey the word that would be uppermost in your mind would be confusion. You can't pick minds apart, musical roots are usually there: some strong, some weak. But the fact remains, as a talent, believe what you're saying musically, like really believe, and you've got to have a dedicated following.
Brother Jack McDuff deserves the moniker brother, because brother (the kinsman of a common family) fits his being, his music, his Down Home Style. You can feel a sanctified man at work in listening to Jack McDuff, you can feel religion in his playing, it comes from within, his strength, his honesty. Brother Jack McDuff's "Down Home Style" HAS GOT to bring joy to many.
The Spirituals are the mother of the blues and the blues are the mother of jazz. If you reach out and inject this feeling to your followers you enter into a love being, and baby you have now been labeled with soul.
Soulful are the musical patterns you will find in this album. Rhythmic patterns may change in the selection of tunes, but Brother Jack McDuff hag got it all covered in "Down Home Style," he'll get to you whether your listening or dancing. In fact, the selections here would be beautiful to lay on your guests should you have a "party happening."
I can't think of any musical instrument that possesses a fuller sound than the organ. The played chord can linger; a musician can pick it apart with improvisations. Watch the facial expressions of the organist working with a group of fine jazz musicians. It's a deep, happy, serene look, like everything is right with the world, a good get-together.
Brother Jack McDuff loves to play. Being that I'm a jazz D.J., I love to listen. At this writing I'm currently presenting a jazz show nightly on WMJR from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, after spending the last eleven years deep into jazz presenting these beautiful sounds on radio and in jazz clubs in New York City.
Every hamlet in these United States is in dire need of good musical exposure; but, unfortunately it's not happening. It's like depriving the majority of the people on earth from the good they get from the sun, the air.
In "Down Home Style" Brother Jack McDuff is trying to do what every musician would like to do: develop a picture in the listener's mind. Of what he feels, he knows, he senses. He wants you to share his feelings, both good and bad. Take you along on his personal musical journey, that's what jazz is really all about.
When you get soul brothers together for a soul session, the outcome can only be a good get-together..."Down Home Style".
ALAN GRANT
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