Jimmy McGriff

These records represent three different ways of hooking jazz up with pop music. Ellis'
band plays straight jazz, but wraps it in a hyped-up package which (Ellis and Columbia
Records hope) will give it popularity beyond the jazz audience. McGriff comes out of the
funky-tough organ school (the sound of his organ has all the clamor and sweat of a black
after-hours club in it) with a rhythm section that combines the best of Stax/hard-... More >