Freddie Roach - All Thats Good '1964/2014

Tracks list

 All thats good, and plenty more – as the sets one of the most unusual
records ever from free-thinking Hammond player Freddie Roach! Roach was always
one of the more righteous talents of his generation – but here, he takes
things even further, but playing in a with voices style thats similar to some of
Donald Byrd and Max Roachs experiments with Coleridge Perkinson!

Roach still uses plenty of Hammond on the set – in the lead of a group
that includes Conrad Lester on tenor and Calvin Newborn on guitar – but
the record also features three singers adding in some soulful vocal choruses
with the instrumentation – not in a vocal jazz way, but more in a
spiritual tone that really adds a lot to the sound! Roach both wrote most of the
work and the notes for the set – definitely one of the more intellectual
Hammond players of his day – and titles include All Thats Good, Blues For
007, Cloud 788, Journeyman, and Loie.


Tracks:

01 - Journeyman
02 - All Thats Good
03 - Blues For 007
04 - Busted
05 - Cloud 788
06 - Loie

Personnel:

Freddie Roach - organ
Conrad Lester - tenor saxophone
Calvin Newborn - guitar
Clarence Johnston - drums
with
Marvin Robinson, Phyllis Smith, Willie Tate - voices

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