Hard Bop & Soul Jazz 1954–1966: Clifford Brown, Hank Mobley, Jimmy Smith & Lou Donaldson

Seventy minutes of hard bop and soul jazz from 1954 to 1966. It opens with Clifford Brown and Max Roach's Joy Spring and Miles Davis's Blue In Green, picks up with John Jenkins and Cliff Jordan's Blue Jay, then settles into the groove: Johnny Hammond, Lou Donaldson's Gravy Train, Don Wilkerson's Dem Tambourines and Jimmy Smith's Back At The Chicken Shack. Bill Evans and Hank Mobley follow, and it closes on the organ of Johnny "Hammond" Smith and John Patton's The Turnaround.

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