Good Friday Blues (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP BF30 but the album brims with

but the album brims with funky grooves from start to finish with the breezy “Aw Shucks

Chrisette Michele

For this 1961 release

a Pitchfork “Best New Music” review and a Rolling Stone “Album of the Month” mention

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

Good Friday Blues (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP BF30 but the album brims withRecorded in the wee hours of Good Friday 1960, this impromptu Pacific Jazz session captured the easy going alchemy of The Modest Jazz Trio featuring Jim Hall on guitar, Red Mitchell on piano, and Red Kelly on bass. It would be the trios sole album, a sublimely swinging set highlighted by the title track. This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl