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Mike LeDonne belongs to an elite group of musicians those who
have mastered the piano AND the organ while creating original
voices for each. However, here on It's All Your Fault, LeDonne
sits down at the organ, puts his foot on the pedals and lays down
some of the hippest organ licks you're likely to hear. Two groups
are featured on this recording. Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet has
had the rare opportunity to play and record together for twenty
years and counting. They had no difficulty integrating their sound
into this all-star big band put together by Mike and his preferred
arranger and conductor, Dennis Mackrel. Recorded in the famed Van
Gelder Studio and actually using the original Hammond C-3 organ
that Jimmy Smith et al. used for their recordings, the music
within this recording is adventurous. It's a continuation of the
groove that was established years ago by organists interacting
with big bands and it reveals to us the Blues, the Rhythm &
Blues and the Jazz that Mike heard coming up through the jazz
ranks.
MIKE LEDONNE, organ
With: Jim Snidero, Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein, Jon Faddis,
Steve Davis, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth and others.
Big band arrangements and conducting by Dennis Mackrel
TRACKS: It's All Your Fault Matador Rock With
You Still Party Time Bags and Brown Biggest Part of Me
Blues for Jed
Its
All Your Fault
Rock
with You
Party
Time
Bags
and Brown
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