Thursday, December 24, 2009

Milt Buckner - Please Mr. Organ Player




Milt Buckner - Please Mr. Organ Player - Argo LP 670 (Argo First Pressing, Mono)

Milt Buckner - Organ
James Campbell - Alto Saxophone
Reggie Boyd - Guitar
Richard Evans - Bass
Maurice Sinclaire - Drums

Recorded - May 26 &27 1960, Ter-Mar Recording Studios, Chicago

Engineer: Ron Malo
Supervision: Jack Tracy
Cover Photo and Design: Don Bronstein

Released: December 19, 1960 (per Billboard)

Just doing some housekeeping on this holiday eve by posting the remaining Argo sides of Milt Buckner that I acquired several weeks ago. We've got a similar set up to the previous 'Mighty High' date but don't think this session is quite as effective as we've got the relatively obscure Reggie Boyd on guitar instead of Kenny Burrell. But the legendary producer/arranger Richard Evans makes an appearance here on bass. Listening to these lost Argo Sides over the last few weeks, I've come to the determination that Buckner essentially plays the organ like a piano (ie his 'locked hands technique') ; sounds different from a typical jazz organ approach like Jimmy Smith's; interesting, but got annoying over time as well.

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6 comments:

  1. sunbopDecember 28, 2009 at 8:54 AM

    thanks again

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  2. troodsJanuary 3, 2010 at 4:32 PM

    thank you so much.

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  3. chuDecember 26, 2010 at 9:23 AM

    Milt Buckner - Please, Mr. Organ Player

    Thanks for this one. Nice-sounding rip.

    Burrell is a jazz giant, but Boyd brings a grittier more R&B-ish quality to the proceedings (Buck 'N The Blues for example), which I thought was quite effective.

    Otherwise this second album is similar to the first, except that it is much shorter, under 29 minutes. Yet they left off one track from this session that remains unissued (This Here), and which may have perished in the Universal fire a few years ago, since other Argo material from the same period was affected.

    As for Buckner's organ style, he is one of the pre-Smith organists, like for example Wild Bill Davis. They had a different approach to playing the organ. Jimmy Smith changed it all, and he has not been called the Coltrane of the organ for nothing!

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  4. JazzrealitiesApril 24, 2011 at 8:47 AM

    This one is no longer available. Can you make a re-upload? Would be fine.
    jazzrealities

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  5. FunkbackAugust 28, 2011 at 3:10 PM

    I as being an organ toter myself love to hear the original tones played the way they should, and You my man are doing a cultural rescue mission by preserving them digitally this way. Your rips always stand out as warm and pleasing to the ears. This one however seems to have been deleted for some reason. When You find the time please consider a repost/re-upload for us fans of the pre-Smith era organists!
    Cheers!
    /Funkback

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  6. PrestontwAugust 28, 2011 at 4:32 PM

    Thanks, new link posted.

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