All Artists:Jack Mcduff Title:Honeydripper Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label:Prestige Original Release Date: 1/1/1961 Re-Release Date: 6/13/2006 Album Type: Original recording remastered Genres:Jazz, Pop Styles:Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo, Bebop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC:888072300354
"This is the definitive Jack McDuff album. Intense, soulful, dramatic blues laden jazz- you can smell the perfume and smoke and soul food. Better still, you can hear that organ and the whole band is the best!"
HONEY DRIP
Lester L. Carter | PHILA , PA | 06/06/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"These cats are cookin'. I took a chance because I like the original Honeydripper by Joe Liggins. Brother Jack on that big B3 is fat bottom. This is the kind of disc I like to wake up to. Gets the juices flowing. Try it, you'll like it."
Slammin album
mistermaxxx@yahoo.com | usa | 07/24/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"brother Jack tore up the Hammond and he has Grant Green on the Axe getting down. the title cut is tight and I dig Dink's blues and Mr. Lucky. very smooth and smoking Album from Brother Jack Mcduff and crew. one of those albums that i just groove to in the summer time."
Whap !
Jazzcat | Genoa, Italy Italy | 08/03/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)
"As anyone knows organ albun are focused on the blues (jazzy blues) because the organ has a particular strong voice and the right attitude for the blues. So the program legitimatly opens with a nice swinging blues "Whap!" with a line that incorporates some beautiful bebop typical accents. A really nice blues with solos that are perfectly balanced. The bebop sophistication and the blues earthly feeling mixed together with great taste. The McDuff tone on the organ change from one tune to the other, he toyed a little bit wth registers for sure. Let's listen to the sound he has in the second tune (compared to the mighty sound Jack had in "Whap!), the beautiful ballad "I want a little girl"... it seems almost a toy-organ ... nice. It surely helps Jack tells the story of this "little" girl he wanted .. The title track, obviously another blues, shout the word swing. Listen to the wonderful drum work of Ben Dixon. This kind of drumplay would make Mickey Mouse swing! Stellar, for real. It is peculiar the use of the Forrest horn. He often plays riffs to the entire track while Jack solos. It is a nice effect. Grant Green th guitar player was at his first recording if I remember well, but he was mature. He played here with personality and autority. "Dink's blues" is another ... you're right, another blues not too different from the title track to be honest. Almost the same tempo, the same riffs, more or less the same drumplay. The program goes on with a swingin version of Mancini's "Mr Lucky". Honestly a breath of fresh air after all those blues tunes. But the last tune is still another blues, it has a couple of strange changes in the middle, I should have my guitar to say exactly what the're doing, but it's nothing major. Just a couple of variations from the blues form which does not change the substance anyway ... the line is nice but anyway is still another blues (the title is self explanatory "Blues and tonic"). 4 blues on 6 tunes .. surely you have to know this. It is a great collection of organ blues tunes like many organ albums. Generally organ players played some Parker tunes to vary a little bit the program still remaining really near the blues form (I'm talking about Scrapple, DonnaLee, Ornithology) but Jack here didn't do this. It's a shame, I'd like it. Anyway... you have to judge a thing for it is. In the organ blues history, this is a nice record."
Track Listings (6) - Disc #1
