Crunch Time

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:52:40
Personnel: Hank Crawford (alto saxophone); Jimmy McGriff (organ); Melvin Sparks, Cornell Dupree (guitar); Bernard Purdie (drums). Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on November 16 & 17, 1998. Includes liner notes by Bil Millkowski. Personnel: Hank Crawford (alto saxophone); Cornell Dupree, Melvin Sparks (guitar); Jimmy McGriff (organ); Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (drums). Audio Mixer: Rudy Van Gelder. Liner Note Author: Bill Milkowski. Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (11/16/1998-11/17/1998); Vna Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (11/16/1998-11/17/1998). Editor: Rudy Van Gelder. Photographer: John Abbott . Over at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Jersey during the '90s, it was just like 1969 with soul-jazz sessions bursting forth at a more leisurely yet no less insistent clip. This could only mean that Hank Crawford and co-billed leader Jimmy McGriff were at it again, playing off the Bernard Purdie shuffle on the first two tracks, and cruising through ballads, blues, and cover tunes with the assurance of those who had the genre in their bloodstream. A high point is Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," as Crawford has the soul and restraint to make a fresh case for a slightly over-recorded contemporary tune. The instantly identifiable Cornell Dupree and mellower Melvin Sparks divide up the guitar parts, taking four tracks apiece, equally unflappable in solos and on rhythm. Not much is new here -- which may be precisely the point of the exercise -- and while these sessions do not quite rise to the truckin' heights of some other McGriff Milestone discs from this period, there is still plenty to groove to in these tracks. Bob Porter produced it -- as you knew he did. ~ Richard S. Ginell
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)