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Organ Jazz Wave Dominates 1950s Album Scene
Leonard Feather surveys early Hammond organ albums from 1950s pioneers. He highlights Eddie Baccus’s Feel Real introducing a young blind organist from Lawndale, N C, with Roland Kirk connection, Jimmy Smith’s Back at the Chicken Shack and his Down Beat poll, Stanley Turrentine’s Minor Chant, Jackie Davis’s The Happy Hammond Organ, Joe Bucci’s Wild About Basie, and Brubeck’s Bossa Nova USA while noting varied cultural impact and brief tracks.
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Eddie Baccus
Smash
Lawndale
N.C
Roland Kirk
Kirk
Baccus
Chicken Shack
Blue Note
Jimmy Smith
Smith
Bill Davis
Stanley Turrentine
Smith- Turrentine
Jackie Davis
Warner Brothers
Davis