Trio '65: Vinyl LP Billy Valentine Kansas City born Hammond B3

Kansas City born Hammond B3 organ dynamo Big John Patton made a stellar run of soul jazz albums for Blue Note thru the 1960s but Let ‘Em Roll stands among the finest with Patton adding vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson to a standard organ trio line-up with guitarist Grant Green and drummer Otis Finch

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The album presented 4 diverse original compositions including the hit song “Cantaloupe Island” performed a deeply attuned quartet featuring Freddie Hubbard on trumpet

Band on The Wall - Manchester Feb 1979

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Trio '65: Vinyl LP Billy Valentine Kansas City born Hammond B3There's scarcely a more towering figure in modern jazz save Miles and Coltrane than Bill Evans. His relaxed and emotional style at the piano would prove influential to not only his peers but to generations of pianists who would follow him. It also doesn't hurt that he appeared on (and had great influence over the direction of) Kind Of Blue and that two of his trios LPs from the Village Vanguard in 1961 are both stone cold classics. Evans is joined