Robert Kennedy - Closer To Home

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:05
Size: 144.4 MB
Styles: B3 Organ jazz
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[4:00] 1. Wild Bill
[5:59] 2. Dat Dere
[5:26] 3. Robert's Reflection
[6:09] 4. Come On, Come In
[5:44] 5. Do You Know A Good Thing (When You See One)
[6:27] 6. Sista Rissy
[6:35] 7. Rakin' And Scrapin'
[8:21] 8. Carrot Cake
[6:55] 9. Sandu
[7:25] 10. Alligator Strut

Hammond B-3 Organ: Robert Kennedy; Guitar: Terrence Brewer; Tenor Saxophone: Ben Torres; Drums: Cody Rhodes. Recorded by Heidi Trefethen at Ten Ones Studio, San Francisco, July 8-9, 2017.

“Closer to Home” is Robert Kennedy’s second full-length album as leader of a Hammond-organ jazz combo. With a core of hard bop and soul jazz standards, this release nods to gospel, straight-ahead, and jazz/rock while celebrating blues as the foundation of jazz. This mix of standards and original tunes features Kennedy on organ, award-winning San Francisco guitarist Terrence Brewer, and on drums Cody Rhodes of Geographer and Christopher Owens’s Curls. On seven of its ten tunes, the album also includes Grammy-winning tenor saxophonist Ben Torres of the Pacific Mambo Orchestra.

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Robert Kennedy Trio - Big Shoes

Size: 132,1 MB
Time: 56:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz: Hammond Organ
Art: Front

Tracklist:
01. Long Strides (5:39)
02. Pleasant Company Expected (7:02)
03. Root Bound (6:22)
04. Radio Blues (6:16)
05. Upper Market (4:57)
06. Big Shoes (6:26)
07. Never Speak Your Name (6:30)
08. Love And Youth And Spring (6:08)
09. Lambadame (7:11)

Big Shoes is Robert Kennedy’s first release as the leader of a jazz trio in the classic organ / guitar / drums format. With Robert's original compositions as vehicles for improvisation and trio interplay, the album features Mason Razavi on guitar and Cody Rhodes on drums as well as Robert on Hammond B-3 organ. The music here is centered in straight-ahead jazz, and ranges from the bossa nova of the opening track “Long Strides” and the ballad / samba of “Never Speak Your Name” to the modern-jazz duo number between Robert and Cody “Lambadame.” Along the way the trio visits bebop numbers “Upper Market” and “Love and Youth and Spring,” slow and soulful “Radio Blues,” the jazz waltz “Pleasant Company Expected,” the New-Orleans flavored title track “Big Shoes,” and the funky “Root Bound.” In the driver's seat at the Hammond organ, Robert is inspired by a deep feeling of musical freedom and responsibility, and the album’s title Big Shoes is his celebration of that feeling.

Big Shoes

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