1972 in jazz
Musians of the Micahel Gibbs Big band, NDR jazz workshop 1972
Decade	1970s in jazz
Music	1972 in music
Standards	List of post-1950 jazz standards
See also	1971 in jazz - 1973 in jazz

1972 in jazz:

Events[link]

• Grant Green records Live at the Lighthouse at the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, California

Album releases[link]

Deaths[link]

• Kenny Dorham (August 30, 1924 - December 5, 1972)
• Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972)
• Jimmy Rushing (August 26, 1901 - June 8, 1972)

Births[link]

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External links[link]

• The Best Jazz Albums of the 1970s

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"Brother" Jack McDuff (September 17, 1926 – January 23, 2001) 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.

Career[link]

Born Eugene McDuffy in Champaign, Illinois, McDuff began playing bass, appearing in Joe Farrell's group.^[1] Encouraged by Willis Jackson in whose band he also played bass in the late 50s, McDuff moved to the organ and began to attract the attention of Prestige Records while still with Jackson's group. McDuff soon became a bandleader, leading groups featuring a young George Benson,^[2] Red Holloway on saxophone and Joe Dukes on drums.

McDuff recorded many classic albums on Prestige including his debut solo Brother Jack in 1960, The Honeydripper (1961), with tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest and guitarist Grant Green,^[2] and Brother Jack Meets The Boss (1962), featuring Gene Ammons, and Screamin’ (1962).

After his tenure at Prestige, McDuff joined the Atlantic Records label^[1] for a brief period and then in the 70s recorded for Blue Note. To Seek a New Home (1970) was recorded in England with a line-up featuring blues shouter Jimmy Witherspoon and some of Britain's top jazz musicians of the day, including Terry Smith on guitar and Dick Morrissey on tenor sax.

The decreasing interest in jazz and blues during the late 70s and 1980s meant that many jazz musicians went through a lean time and it wasn't until the late 1980s, with The Re-Entry, recorded for the Muse label in 1988, that McDuff once again began a successful period of recordings, initially for Muse, then on the Concord Jazz label from 1991.^[1] George Benson appeared on his mentor’s 1992 Colour Me Blue album.

Despite health problems, McDuff continued working and recording throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and toured Japan with Atsuko Hashimoto in 2000. "Captain" Jack McDuff, as he later became known, died of heart failure at the age of 74 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Discography[link]

As leader[link]

• In this year Jack McDuff Playeg for Beautiful People (Prestige 1960)
• Rock Candy (Prestige 1960)
• Brother Jack (Prestige 1960)
• Tough 'Duff (Original Jazz 1960)
• The Honeydripper (Original Jazz 1961)
• Goodnight, It's Time to Go (Prestige 1961)
• Steppin' Out (Prestige 1961)
• Sanctified (Prestige 1961)
• On With It (Prestige 1961)
• Mellow Gravy (Prestige 1962)
• Screamin' (Original Jazz 1962)
• Brother Jack Live! at the Jazz Workshop (Prestige 1963)
• Brother Jack McDuff Live! (Prestige 1963)
• Crash! by Jack McDuff & Kenny Burrell (Prestige 1963)
• Hallelujah Time! (Prestige 1963)
• The Midnight Sun (Prestige 1963)
• Somethin' Slick (Prestige 1963)
• Dynamic! (Prestige 1964)
• The Concert McDuff Recorded Live! (Prestige 1964)
• Silken Soul (Prestige 1964)
• I Got A Woman (Prestige 1964)
• Prelude (Prestige 1964)
• Soul Circle (Prestige 1964)
• Hot Barbeque (Prestige 1965)
• Walk On By (Prestige 1966)
• A Change Is Gonna Come (Atlantic 1966)
• Tobacco Road (Atlantic 1966)
• Do It Now! (Atlantic 1966)
• Getting Our Thing Together (Cadet 1968)
• The Natural Thing (MCA 1968)
• Double Barrelled Soul (Atlantic 1968)
• Gin And Orange (Cadet 1969)
• Down Home Style (Blue Note 1969)
• Moon Rappin' (Blue Note 1969)
• To Seek a New Home (Blue Note 1970)
• Who Knows What Tomorrow's Gonna Bring? (Blue Note 1970)
• Check This Out (Cadet 1972)
• The Heatin' System (Cadet 1972)
• The Fourth Dimension (Cadet 1974)
• Magnetic Feel (Cadet 1975)
• Sophisticated Funk (MCA 1976)
• Kisses (Sugar Hill 1982)
• The Re-Entry (32 Jazz 1988)
• Another Real Good'un (Muse 1989)
• Color Me Blue (Concord Jazz 1992)
• Hot Barbeque: Live (BGP 1993)
• Write On, Capt'n (Concord Jazz 1993)
• Live (Prestige 1994)
• The Heatin' System (Concord Jazz 1994)
• Hot BBQ (BGP 1995)
• That's The Way I Feel About It (Concord Jazz 1996)
• Jack-Pot (Red 1997)
• Bringin It Home (Concord Jazz 1999)
• Brotherly Love (Concord Jazz 2001)

As sideman[link]

• Kirk's Work by Roland Kirk (Prestige 1961)
• Grantstand by Grant Green (Blue Note 1961)
• Brother Jack Meets the Boss by Jack McDuff & Gene Ammons (Prestige 1962)
• The New Boss Guitar of George Benson With The Brother Jack McDuff Quartet by George Benson (Prestige 1964)
• The Blues is Now by Jimmy Witherspoon & Jack McDuff (Verve, 1967)
• Double Barrelled Soul by "Brother" Jack McDuff & David "Fathead" Newman (Atlantic 1968)
• Boss of the B3 by Winston Walls (Schoolkids Records 1993)
• It's About Time by Jack McDuff & Joey DeFrancesco (Concord Jazz 1996)
• (Down Home) Blues by Gene Harris & Jack McDuff (Concord Jazz 1996)
• Meeting Point by Mike Pachelli & Jack McDuff (Fullblast 1999)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jack McDuff at Allmusic
• Jack McDuff discography at Organ, Guitar, Drums
• Obituary

Grant Green (St. Louis, Missouri, June 6, 1935 – New York, January 31, 1979; some sources erroneously give the birth year as 1931^[1]) was a jazz guitarist and composer.

Recording prolifically and almost exclusively for Blue Note Records (as both leader and sideman) Green performed well in hard bop, soul jazz, bebop and Latin-tinged settings throughout his career. Critics Michael Erlewine and Ron Wynn write, "A severely underrated player during his lifetime, Grant Green is one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar ... Green's playing is immediately recognizable -- perhaps more than any other guitarist."^[2] Critic Dave Hunter described his sound as "lithe, loose, slightly bluesy and righteously groovy".^[3] He often performed in an organ trio, a small group with an organ and drummer.

Apart from Charlie Christian, Green's primary influences were saxophonists, particularly Charlie Parker, and his approach was therefore almost exclusively linear rather than chordal. The simplicity and immediacy of Green's playing, which tended to avoid chromaticism, derived from his early work playing rhythm and blues and, although at his best he achieved a synthesis of this style with bop, he was essentially a blues guitarist and returned almost exclusively to this style in his later career.^[4] Green used a Gibson ES-330, then a Gibson L7 with a Gibson McCarty pickguard/pick-up, an Epiphone Emperor (with the same pick-up) and finally had a custom built D'Aquisto. George Benson said he would turn all the bass and treble off the amp, and max the midrange. This way he could get his signature punchy, biting tone.

Biography[link]

Green was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He first performed in a professional setting at the age of 12. His influences were Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker, Ike Quebec, Lester Young, Jimmy Raney, Jimmy Smith and Miles Davis, he first played boogie-woogie before moving on to jazz. His first recordings in St. Louis were with tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest for the Delmark label. The drummer in the band was Elvin Jones, later the powerhouse behind John Coltrane. Grant recorded with Elvin again in the early Sixties. Lou Donaldson discovered Grant playing in a bar in St. Louis. After touring together with Donaldson, Grant arrived in New York around 1959-60.

Lou Donaldson introduced Grant to Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records. Lion was so impressed with Grant that, rather than testing Grant as a sideman, as was the usual Blue Note practice, Lion arranged for him to record as a bandleader first. Green's initial recording session went unreleased until 2001, however, owing to a lack of confidence on Green's behalf. [1] [2]

Despite the shelving of his first session, Green's recording relationship with Lion and Blue Note was to last, with a few exceptions, throughout the Sixties. From 1961 to 1965, Grant made more appearances on Blue Note LPs, as leader or sideman, than anyone else. Grant's first issued album as a leader was Grant's First Stand. This was followed in the same year by Green Street and Grantstand. Grant was named best new star in the Down Beat critics' poll, 1962, and, as a result, his influence spread wider than New York. He often provided support to the other important musicians on Blue Note, including saxophonists Hank Mobley, Ike Quebec, Stanley Turrentine and Harold Vick, as well as organist Larry Young.

Sunday Mornin' , The Latin Bit and Feelin' the Spirit are all loose concept albums, each taking a musical theme or style: Gospel, Latin and spirituals respectively. Grant always carried off his more commercial dates with artistic success during this period. Idle Moments (1963), featuring Joe Henderson and Bobby Hutcherson, and Solid (1964), featuring the Coltrane rhythm section, are acclaimed as two of Grant's best recordings.

Many of Grant's recordings were not released during his lifetime. These include Matador, in which Grant is once again in the heavyweight company of the Coltrane rhythm section, and a series of sessions with pianist Sonny Clark. In 1966 Grant left Blue Note and recorded for several other labels, including Verve. From 1967 to 1969 Grant was, for the most part, inactive due to personal problems and the effects of heroin addiction. In 1969 Grant returned with a new funk-influenced band. His recordings from this period include the commercially successful Green is Beautiful and the soundtrack to the film The Final Comedown. Grant was also a huge influence on guitarists, from George Benson to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Still to this day guitarists try to get his signature sound, Idle Moments is considered one of the top 100 jazz albums of all time.

Grant left Blue Note again in 1974 and the subsequent recordings he made with other labels divide opinion: some consider Green to have been the 'Father of Acid Jazz' (and his late recordings have been sampled by artists including US3, A Tribe Called Quest and Public Enemy^[5]), whilst others have dismissed them (Michael Cuscuna wrote in the sleeve notes for the album Matador that "During the 1970s he made some pretty lame records").

Grant spent much of 1978 in hospital and, against the advice of doctors, went back on the road to earn some money. While in New York to play an engagement at George Benson's Breezin' Lounge, Grant collapsed in his car of a heart attack in New York City on January 31, 1979. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, and was survived by six children. Since Green's demise, his reputation has grown to legendary status and many compilations of both his earlier (post-bop/straight ahead and soul jazz) and later (funkier/dancefloor jazz) periods, exist.

Discography[link]

As leader[link]

Blue Note Records

Other labels

As sideman[link]

1959

• Jimmy Forrest - All the Gin Is Gone (Delmark)
• Jimmy Forrest - Black Forrest (Delmark)

1960

• Sam Lazar - Space Flight (Argo)
• Willie Dixon - Blues Roots Series, Vol. 12 (Chess)

1961

• Lou Donaldson - Here 'Tis (Blue Note)
• Baby Face Willette - Face to Face (Blue Note)
• Baby Face Willette - Stop and Listen (Blue Note)
• Brother Jack McDuff - The Honeydripper (Prestige)
• Stanley Turrentine - Up at "Minton's" (Blue Note)
• Dave Bailey - Reaching Out (Jazztime)
• Hank Mobley - Workout (Blue Note)
• Horace Parlan - Up & Down (Blue Note)
• Brother Jack McDuff - Steppin' Out (Prestige)
• Brother Jack McDuff - Goodnight, It's Time To Go (Prestige)
• Stanley Turrentine - ZT's Blues (Blue Note)
• Lou Donaldson - A Man with a Horn (Blue Note)
• Sonny Red/Grant Green/Barry Harris - The Mode (Jazzland)
• Sonny Red - Images (Jazzland)
• Ike Quebec - Blue and Sentimental (Blue Note)

1962

• Joe Carroll - Man with a Happy Sound (Charlie Parker Records)
• Dodo Greene - My Hour of Need (Blue Note)
• Don Wilkerson - Elder Don (Blue Note)
• Lou Donaldson - The Natural Soul (Blue Note)
• Don Wilkerson - Preach Brother! (Blue Note)

1963

• Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious! (Blue Note)
• Jimmy Smith - I'm Movin' On (Blue Note)
• Jimmy Smith - Special Guests (Blue Note Japan)
• Booker Ervin - Back from the Gig (Blue Note)
• Herbie Hancock - My Point of View (Blue Note)
• Horace Parlan - Happy Frame of Mind (Blue Note)
• "Big" John Patton - Along Came John (Blue Note)
• Gloria Coleman - Soul Sisters (Impulse!)
• Harold Vick - Steppin' Out! (Blue Note)
• "Big" John Patton - Blue John (Blue Note)
• Don Wilkerson - Shoutin' (Blue Note)
• George Braith - Two Souls in One (Blue Note)
• Mary Lou Williams - Black Christ of the Andes (Saba/MPS)
• George Braith - Soulstream (Blue Note)
• Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker (Blue Note)

1964

• Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land (Blue Note)
• George Braith - Extension (Blue Note)
• "Big" John Patton - The Way I Feel (Blue Note)
• Larry Young - Into Somethin' (Blue Note)
• Donald Byrd - I'm Tryin' to Get Home (Blue Note)

1965

• Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis - Joe's Blues (Verve)
• Grassella Oliphant - The Grass Is Greener (Atlantic)
• "Big" John Patton - Oh Baby! (Blue Note)
• Lou Donaldson - Musty Rusty (Cadet)
• Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis - Wings and Things (Verve)
• "Big" John Patton - Let 'em Roll (Blue Note)

1966

• George Braith - Laughing Souls (Prestige)
• "Big" John Patton - Got a Good Thing Goin' (Blue Note)
• Art Blakey - Hold On, I'm Coming (Limelight)
• Stanley Turrentine - Rough 'n' Tumble (Blue Note)

1969

• Rusty Bryant - Returns (Prestige)
• Charles Kynard - The Soul Brotherhood (Prestige)
• Reuben Wilson - Love Bug (Blue Note)
• Don Patterson - Brother-4 (Prestige)
• Don Patterson - Donnybrook (Prestige)
• Don Patterson - Tune Up! (Prestige)

1970

• Charles Kynard - Afro-Disiac (Prestige)
• Fats Theus - Black Out (CTI)
• Houston Person - Person to Person! (Prestige)

1973

• Houston Person - The Real Thing (Eastbound)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Great Jazz Guitar Players: Grant Green
• Grant Green discography at MusicBrainz
• Grant Green Pages
• The Grant Green Tone
• Grant Green Discography Project
• Evergreen - Grant Green Tribute Page
• German Grant Green site with fully illustrated discography
• Grant Green discography with cover photos

Shirley Scott (March 14, 1934 – March 10, 2002)^[1] was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist. She was most known for working with her husband, Stanley Turrentine, and with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. She was known as 'Queen of the Organ'.^[1]

Biography[link]

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Scott was an admirer of Jimmy Smith, and played piano and trumpet before moving to the Hammond organ, her main instrument, though on occasion she still played piano. In the 1950s she became known for her work (1956–1959) with the saxophone player Eddie Davis, particularly on the song "In the Kitchen". She was married to Stanley Turrentine and played with him from 1960 to 1969. Later, she led her own group, mostly a trio. Saxophonist Harold Vick often played with her.

In the 1980s, she became a jazz educator and became a highly known and respected member of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's jazz community.^[2]

Scott died of heart failure in 2002,^[1] which was hastened by the diet drug fen-phen. Scott won an $8 million settlement in February 2000 against American Home Products, the manufacturers of the drug cocktail.^[2]

Selected discography[link]

As leader[link]

• 1958: Shirley's Sounds (Prestige Records) - with George Duvivier, George Tucker, and Arthur Edgehill
• 1958: Workin' (Prestige)
• 1959: Soul Searching (Prestige)
• 1960: Mucho, Mucho (Prestige)
• 1961: Hip Soul (Prestige)
• 1961: Shirley Scott plays Horace Silver (Prestige)
• 1961: Blue Seven (Prestige)
• 1961: Hip Twist (Prestige)
• 1962: Sweet Soul (Prestige)
• 1963: The Soul Is Willing (Prestige)
• 1963: Soul Shoutin' (Prestige)
• 1964: Blue Flames (Prestige)
• 1963: For Members Only (Impulse!)
• 1964: Great Scott!! (Impulse!)
• 1964: Everybody Loves a Lover (Impulse!)
• 1964: Queen of the Organ (Impulse!)
• 1965: Latin Shadows (Impulse!)
• 1965: Blue Seven (Prestige)
• 1966: On a Clear Day (Impulse!)
• 1966: Roll 'Em (Impulse!)
• 1967: Soul Duo (Impulse!)
• 1967: Girl Talk (Impulse!)
• 1968: Soul Song (Atlantic)
• 1970: Something (Atlantic)
• 1971: Mystical Lady (Cadet)
• 1972: Lean on Me (Cadet)
• 1973: Superstition (Cadet)
• 1974: One for Me (Strata-East Records, with Jimmy Hopps, Harold Vick, Billy Higgins)
• 1992: Blues Everywhere (Candid)

With Stanley Turrentine

• 1961: Dearly Beloved (Blue Note)
• 1963: Never Let Me Go (Blue Note)
• 1963: A Chip Off the Old Block (Blue Note)
• 1964: Hustlin' (Blue Note)
• 1966: Let It Go (Impulse!)
• 1968: Common Touch (Blue Note)

As sidewoman[link]

• 1957: Count Basie presents the Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis trio (Roulette)
• 1958: Joe Newman Soft swingin' jazz (Coral)
• 1958: The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook Vols. 1&2 (Prestige 7141 & 7161)
• 1958: The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis trio (Roost)
• 1958: The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis trio (Roulette)
• 1977: Al Grey Live at Travelers lounge (Travelers)
• 1981: Al Grey / Jimmy Forrest quintet Live at Rick's (Aviva)

References[link]

External links[link]

• All Music discography
• Shirley Scott discography by Doug Payne
• BBC Radio 2
• Shirley Scott's last filmed public performance, playing with Joey DeFrancesco at an organ summit in her honor in 1999.

Ronnie Foster (born May 12, 1950) is an American funk and soul-jazz organist, and record producer. His albums recorded for Blue Note Records in the 1970s has obtained a cult following after the emergence of acid-jazz.^[1]

Biography[link]

Born in Buffalo, New York, Foster has performed as a sideman with a wide range of musicians. He frequently worked with guitarist George Benson, including playing electric piano, mini-moog, and composing the composition "Lady" on Benson's 1976 album Breezin'. Foster has also played organ with Chet Atkins, Grant Green , Grover Washington, Jr., Stanley Turrentine, Roberta Flack, Earl Klugh, Harvey Mason, Jimmy Smith, and Stevie Wonder.^[1]

Discography[link]

• The Two Headed Freap (Blue Note, 1972)
• Sweet Revival (Blue Note, 1972)
• Ronnie Foster Live: Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux (Blue Note, 1973)
• On the Avenue (Blue Note, 1974)
• Cheshire Cat (Blue Note, 1975)
• Love Satellite (Columbia, 1978)
• Delight (Columbia, 1979)
• The Racer (Pro Jazz, 1986)^[2]

As sideman[link]

This section requires expansion.

With Chet Atkins

• Street Dreams (Columbia, 1986)

With George Benson

• Good King Bad (CTI, 1975)
• In Concert-Carnegie Hall (CTI, 1975)
• Breezin' (Warner Bros., 1976)
• In Flight (Warner Bros., 1977)
• Livin' Inside Your Love (Warner Bros., 1979)
• Weekend in L.A. (Warner Bros., 1977)

With Chayanne

• Chayanne (CBS, 1987)
• Chayanne (CBS, 1988)

With Grant Green

• Alive! (Blue Note, 1970)
• Live at Club Mozambique (Blue Note, 1971)

With The Jacksons

• Trumph (Epic, 1980)

With Robbie Robertson

• Storyville (Geffen, 1991)

With Stanley Turrentine

• Wonderland (Blue Note, 1986)

With Stevie Wonder

• Songs in the Key of Life (Tamla, 1976)

References[link]