Organ trios and quartets appear to be back in vogue. We've got at least two on Tyneside and no doubt most other cities in the western world have their share not least Philly where Ector was raised before moving to NY C.
Recorded live at The Side Door Jazz Club in Old Lyme, Connecticut - a town with a population of only 7,628 which can, nevertheless, support a jazz club recognised by DownBeat as "one of the world's 106 great jazz venues" - it's an out and swinger.
Four of the nine tracks are Ector originals the other five are by Don Patterson, Dizzy, Benny Carter, Bacharach and Vinnie Barrett/Bobby Eli. The Organatomy Trio+ do them all justice.
Bianchi, we're told endorses Viscount organs and the company certainly get there money's worth out of him here. Joey DeFrancesco lives! Indeed, prior to his passing, it was the late Joey who encouraged Ector to release this recording, made on the brink of the pandemic in 2020.
Jones and Bollenbeck have wailing solos - cutting edge when the heat is on, lyrical and melodic when it cools - Benny Carter's The Courtship is exquisite.
Ector drives things along nicely. If you like organ jazz, and who doesn't? this is one to checkout - BANDCAMP. Lance
South Philly Groove; Sister Ruth; The Courtship; Con Alma; Love Won't Let me Wait; Renewal Revisited; Dex Blues; Wives and Lovers; Reprise and Thanks.
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