Nigel Price Organ Trio - Hit The Road

Size: 148,5 MB
Time: 63:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Jazz: Hammond Organ
Art: Front

01. Hit The Road (6:13)
02. Up Jumped Spring (7:55)
03. Chelsea Bridge (8:15)
04. Lover Man (8:40)
05. Dreamsville (7:30)
06. Go! (7:16)
07. Detour Ahead (7:18)
08. Bizzy Bee (6:37)
09. Hot Seat (Chas's Chair) (4:08)

Nigel Price, the British jazz guitarist devoted to such late guitar heroes as Wes Montgomery and Grant Green, cruises through some classic themes and compatible originals with the fine pairing of Pete Whittaker on Hammond organ and Matt Home on drums. But if Price and co tick all the boxes of this style, closer listening reveals their audacity and advanced techniques, particularly notable in the fluency with which they mix tempos and time signatures in between and sometimes within tracks. Up Jumped Spring splices two speeds of swing and fast-waltz passages; Chelsea Bridge gets a Latin feel; Lover Man is a fast samba with stop-start breaks but features some nimble swerves and a Django Reinhardt-like tone from the leader; and the delectable ballad Detour Ahead features the trio at their collective best. Saxophonist Vasilis Xenopoulos helps the band muscle through the hustling finale Hot Seat, a classic swing-to-bop gallop. This is a respectful celebration of a now-smooth tradition, but a very musical one. ~John Fordham

Hit The Road

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