Iron City! is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances said to be recorded in 1967 and first released on the Cobblestone label in 1972.

The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 3 stars calling it "a fine, overlooked date that showcases some of Green's hottest, bluesiest playing" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRhe79igQEI&list=OLAK5uy_nAG43cHLUEsamLS9iCrtOfcZ0vIwfXJ1c

#GrantGreen #JazzGuitar #BigJohnPatton #HammondB3 #SoulJazz #Music #Jazz

How Long Before You're Gone? dall'album Doo-Ha! di "The Lewis Express" (con Chip Wickham)

https://thelewisexpress.bandcamp.com/track/how-long-before-youre-gone

#jazz #funky #souljazz #TheLewisExpress

Ended Wednesday and welcomed Thursday with In My Solitude an album by saxophonist Willis Jackson which was recorded in 1961 and released on the Moodsville label

Willis "Gator" Jackson (April 25, 1932 – October 25, 1987) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Born in Miami, Florida, Jackson joined Cootie Williams's band in 1948 as a teenager, and was part of it on and off until 1955.

Under his own name (Willis Jackson and His Orchestra) he recorded various rhythm-and-blues instrumentals for Atlantic Records. His most famous record for Atlantic is "Gator's Groove" (1952), with "Estrellita" as the B-side.

Jackson toured as leader of the backing band for singer Ruth Brown. Publicly they were married, but privately they never married but lived together from 1950 to 1955. Jackson joined Prestige Records in 1959, making a string of albums.. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WCkShst8ro

#WllisJackson #SoulJazz #Music #Jazz #Moodsville #RuthBrown #Gator #CootieWilliams

The Drive – Way Back Fifties

https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-drive-way-back-fifties/

Formed by the core brass section of the Heshoo Beshoo Group, Henry and Stanley Sithole, and drummer Nelson Magwaza, The Drive spread their music throughout South Africa and won numerous awards.
The hit “Way Back Fifties” is still revered in South Africa to this day.

Apartheid social engineering in South Africa resulted in increasingly restrictive […]

#70smusic #Apartheid #Jazz #SoulJazz #SouthAfrica

Night Life is the fourth album by guitarist Billy Butler which was recorded in late 1970 and released on the Prestige label the following year.

Allmusic awarded the compilation album 4½ stars stating "Butler was a versatile musician who, on ballads in particular displayed a very interesting sound, sometimes sliding between notes as if he were playing a steel guitar" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc0jHxyPBzg&list=RDxc0jHxyPBzg&start_radio=1

#BillyButler #JazzGuitar #AcidJazz #PrestigeLabel #Jazz #SoulJazz #Music

Ahhh... a banger from the not too distant past. Kitchen Sink.

#souljazz #funk #noahpeterson #jam #fat
https://open.spotify.com/track/4UuIh5qeHh4Rlagrpi4gnM?si=9xidUe2ZROmhdlFVEikeXw

https://music.apple.com/ru/song/kitchen-sink/1702966923?l=en-GB

https://youtu.be/3RAMU5ylnlE?si=G-cDTMza0SZNaYJL

Fred Jackson - Hootin' 'n' Tootin'

Although this comes from 1962 (Jackson's only session as a leader), it sounds more like later Blue Note, given the soul-jazz focus.

Regardless, lots to enjoy across the two sides.

Features Jackson (tenor), Earl Van Dyke (organ), Willie Jones (guitar), Sam Jones (bass), Wilbert Hogan (drums).

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #hardbop #souljazz #FredJackson #EarlVanDyke #WillieJones #SamJones #WilbertHogan

Everybody Loves a Lover is an album by jazz organist Shirley Scott recorded for the Impuse! label in 1964 and performed by Scott with Stanley Turrentine, Bob Cranshaw and Otis Finch. - Wikipedia

Shirley Scott and Stan The Man with that soul jazz groove on Impulse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHmOCG9YT1w&list=RDjHmOCG9YT1w&start_radio=1

#shirleyScott #StanleyTurrentine #SoulJazz #JazzOrgan #Music #Jazz #ImpulseRecords