Gadd Gang - Way Back Home

Digital Crate Digging Continues during Jazz Appreciation Month. We're checking out the Gadd Gang - with their version of the Crusaders Way Back Home. Check out the players and the track.

Cornell Dupree -  Guitar
Steve Gadd - Drums
Richard Tee - Piano
Ronnie Cuber - Saxophone
Eddie Gomez - Bass

 

King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale

Sunday Jazz Continues..checking out saxophonist  King Curtis - with his version of Procol Harum 's A Whiter Shade of Pale..This was recorded in 1970  Live at the  Fillmore West in San Francisco

...organ player Billy Preston, bassist Jerry Jemmott, guitarist Cornell Dupree, Pancho Morales (percussion), drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie and The Memphis Horns helped him put it down..check it out!!

"Memphis Soul Stew" (live) King Curtis & The Kingpins

Digital Crate Digging Continues...digging real deep for this....checking out King Curtis and The Kingpins....this is real soul music..with a jazz/ funk twist to it

.....King Curtis on saxophone...Jerry Jemont on bass..Cornell Dupree on guitar...Truman Thomas on the organ...and the original "funky drummer" ..sampled by a lot of hip hop producers...the one and only Bernard Purdie...check this out...