Harper (1966)

Stanley Turrentine - Let It Go (1966) {Impulse! Japan UCCU-5294 rel 2005}
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© 1966, 2005 Impulse! / Verve / Universal Japan | UCCU-5294 | Jazz The Best Series 24bit
Jazz / Soul Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone / Organ

This is by far one of the greatest examples of the Sax-Organ combo. Featuring Turrentine's then wife Shirley Scott her church bred organ style pulsates with each note,the soulful influences of Turrentine are brought to life, sharing a passsion with Scott's free wheeling hammond b-3 breakdowns, aggresively adding fuel to the rapture. Not too mention it's a classic Impulse release from another classic 50's sax man who's not John Coltrane.

After a journey busking the streets of Europe to Les Cousins Club Soho 1965 via The Hyde Park, Knebworth and Glastonbury Festivals, The Festival and Albert Halls – we arrive early April 2011 at Metropolis Studios Chiswick with one hundred and twenty guests and the one and only Roy Harper. A breathtaking performance left all who were there drained and mesmerised. Simply unrepeatable, and caught on camera…

Dick Morrissey - Here And Now And Sounding Good! (1966) {Mercury-Norma Japan NOCD5611}
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© 1966, 1995 Norma / Mercury Records | NOCD5611
Jazz / Hard Bop / Post Bop / Saxophone

Here's my third and final upload by this much underated tenor player. It's from 1966 and was reissued in Japan some years ago. Good Stuff! Saxophonist Dick Morrissey towered among the finest and most innovative British jazz musicians of his generation when he teamed with guitarist Jim Mullen to spearhead the UK fusion movement of the 1970s. Born May 9, 1940 in Horley, England, Morrissey taught himself the clarinet at age 16, later mastering all of the saxophones and the flute. In his late teens, while apprenticing as a jeweler, he played with the Original Climax Jazz Band, followed by a stint in trumpeter Gus Galbraith's septet, where alto saxophonist Pete King introduced Morrissey to his chief inspiration, Charlie Parker.