| | Deep Blue Organ Trio Deep Blue Bruise CD Deep Blue Organ Trio Discography of CDs
 (3 Customer Reviews)
 |
|
Our Price: $12.29  CDFor Sale Usually ships in 1-2 days
|  |
Philadelphia jazz singer Lou Lanza had an excellent point when he asserted that jazz improvisers who ignore rock and R&B songs "are cutting themselves off from a lot of worthwhile material." Lanza wasn't suggesting that jazz artists should totally give up the Tin Pan Alley standards they've been performing all these years -- actually, he's done plenty of Cole Porter and Irving Berlin gems himself -- but he was saying that if you're going to use popular songs as vehicles for jazz expression, there is no reason not to interpret Sting, Billy Joel or Prince along with Harry Warren and George Gershwin. And if Deep Blue Bruise is any indication, the members of the Deep Blue Organ Trio -- leader/organist Chris Foreman, guitarist Bobby Broom and drummer Greg Rockingham -- feel the same way. While Deep Blue Bruise is definitely an album of instrumental jazz, only a few of the songs on this soul-jazz/hard bop/post-bop disc were actually written as jazz instrumentals. Joe Henderson's "Granted" and Broom's exuberant title track were jazz instrumentals from birth, but most of the songs on this 2004 date started out in popular music -- and that is true of "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" and "These Foolish Things" (both from Tin Pan Alley) as well as Prince's "Raspberry Beret," the Doors' "Light My Fire" and Earth, Wind & Fire's "Can't Hide Love." What the Deep Blue Organ Trio does to these songs isn't smooth jazz or NAC music; this is a passionate, hard-swinging organ combo in the Jimmy Smith/Richard "Groove" Holmes/Shirley Scott/Jack McDuff tradition, and a real improviser's mentality prevails whether the Chicago threesome is tackling Ervin Drake's "It Was a Very Good Year" or the Isaac Hayes tune "Café Regio's." Although not innovative by 21st century standards, Deep Blue Bruise is a satisfying, noteworthy effort that die-hard Hammond B-3 enthusiasts will appreciate. ~ Alex Henderson
Organist Chris Foreman is a Chicago legend who Peter Margasak of The Chicago Reader called "Chicago's most exciting and under-recorded organist." Guitarist Bobby Broom is featured on this CD -- his bio lists Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis and Dr. John as pre
Liner Note Author: Bob Porter.
Recording information: Riverside Studio, Chicago, IL (04/12/2004-04/14/2004).
Photographer: Frank Warren.
Deep Blue Organ Trio: Chris Foreman (Hammond b-3 organ); Greg Rockingham (drums); Bobby Broom.
Personnel: Bobby Broom (guitar).
Deep Blue Organ Trio Deep Blue Bruise Songs Deep Blue Bruise Music Review Purchase Deep Blue Bruise CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Mike LeDonne Smokin' Out Loud CD (2004)
Deep Blue Bruise album
 $13.85  
| | Dr Lonnie Smith Too Damn Hot CD (2004)
Deep Blue Bruise CD music
$13.45 
| | Joey Defrancesco Legacy CD (2005)
Deep Blue Bruise music CDs
$7.09
| | Jimmy Ponder What's New CD (2005)
Deep Blue Bruise songs
$13.85
| | Deep Blue Organ Trio Goin' To Town: Live At The Green Mill CD (2006)
Deep Blue Bruise album
$12.29
| | Deep Blue Organ Trio Folk Music CD (2007)
Deep Blue Bruise CD music
$13.85 
The Deep Blue Organ Trio call their third album Folk Music -- and they're right; the rootsy, bluesy soul-jazz that they crank out on this CD is kind of a folk music in its way, a handed-down tradition that appeals to the man in the street as opposed to the pundits in the towers. They adhere 110 percent to the style that once was a fixture at inner-city bars ...
| | Hazel Dickens Hazel & Alice CD (1973)
Deep Blue Bruise music CDs
$14.35 
| | Grace Jones Island Life CD (1985) Greatest Hits
Deep Blue Bruise songs
$6.49 
| | Frigg Brecht CD (1999)
Deep Blue Bruise album
$14.75
Principally recorded live at The Knitting Factory, New York, New York on October 21, 1998.
Frigg, the German group led by composer/guitarist Bert Wrede, ...
| | Acama Tibetan Temple Bells CD (1995)
Deep Blue Bruise CD music
$9.39
Additional Tracks
| | Fall Room To Live CD (1983)
Deep Blue Bruise music CDs
$7.39
| | Fred Hess Ninth Street Park CD (2003)
Deep Blue Bruise songs
$15.75
| | Sondre Lerche Two Way Monologue CD (2004) Bonus Track; Japan
Deep Blue Bruise album
$39.09
Norway's Sondre Lerche was still ...
| | Merrol Ray Stanley CD (2009)
Deep Blue Bruise CD music
$18.99
Small towns and blue collars have given rise to more aspiring songwriters than space or time allows most of us to explore. But when it comes to sifting through the various offerings, what speaks to most fans is music that is honest, gut-wrenching, born of highs and lows revealing a real-world understanding.Merrol Ray is one of those Texas voices and personalities so flavored by his past that most folks have at least heard of him before they hear him sing. His name is synonymous with northeast Texas music - so much so that most everyone refers to him by both his first and last moniker. It's not just "Merrol" - it's Merrol Ray.As Texas clichés go about those born and bred here, Merrol is larger than life with a voice that bellows a soothing but captivating tone. "I used to go in where Merrol Ray used to work, and you could always hear him from anywhere in the store," says friend and fellow musician Wendy McNeal. His voice is unmistakable.That voice finds its inspiration in mainly rock and southern rock, a little punk and metal from his "awareness" teen years in the early-to-mid 1980s, plus honest (did I use that word again?) Americana country. Merrol's "desert island" CD list includes Zeppelin, Skynyrd, and Chris Knight."I used to sit and listen to my mother's records, like Buddy Holly and the Buck Owens Christmas albums. I distinctly remember studying Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Cosmos Factory' album cover dreamin' of those guitars and amps and how cool it all was. I couldn't have been more than five-years-old," Merrol says.Of his influences (dead or alive), Merrol Ray would most like to play with Hendrix and write with David Gilmour. " 'Time' by Pink Floyd is probably the greatest song ever written. The way it builds is genius and the meaning of the song hits home, I don't care who you are."Having recorded or shared the stage with Dan Baird (Georgia Satellites), Shooter Jennings and Pure Prairie League to name a few, Merrol said the band he played with that rubbed off on him the most was Back Porch Mary. "They're just bad, man. You gotta see 'em live!"Blossom, Texas, in the late 1970s to mid 80s was little more than a stoplight, hardware store, open-air produce market and a school. But his experiences growing up there, son and descendant of a "long line of feedmill workers" (as he recounts on "Bloodline") made him who he is today."There wasn't much else to do except during sports season. And if somebody was a musician or even had a guitar, Blossom was so small you knew about it. Even though I did like most kids and couldn't wait to leave, it's such a part of who I am I can't deny it," he said. "I don't want to."No doubt the neighbors had fodder to talk about across the backyard fence as Merrol Ray grew up, as the autobiographical song "Dancin' Hard" illustrates:"I made a lot of trouble when I was young. Momma didn't know all the things I'd done. All the townfolk said that boy he's a card. But my momma knew I was dancin' hard."As founding member of the band "Miles from Nowhere" - winner of the 2006 Shiner (Beer) Records Rising Star ...
|
|
|
25205 
buttons below to play song samples
Adobe Flash
Email a Friend
