Search - Artist/Band: Jack McDuff

• Name: Jack McDuff
• Birthday: 09/17/1926
• Birth Place: Champaign, IL
• Died: 01/23/2001
• Decades Active: 1960,1970,1980
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Hard Bop, Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz
• Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Earnest, Earthy, Energetic, Fun, Greasy, Party/Celebratory, Passionate, Playful, Refined/Mannered, Rousing, Stylish, Cheerful, Confident, Dramatic, Exuberant, Freewheeling, Literate, Lively, Organic, Rambunctious, Searching, Slick, Sophisticated, Stately, Street-Smart, Uplifting, Warm, Witty

Title	Release
The Prestige Years W	04/06/2004
The Best of the Concord Years W	03/25/2003
The Last Goodun'	07/30/2002
As Real as It Gets	04/02/2002
Funk Pie	01/01/2002
Last Date with Jack McDuff	06/20/2001
Soulful Drums [2001] WA	2001
Silken Soul WA	09/12/2000
Tobacco Road/Do It Now! WA	07/11/2000
A Change Is Gonna Come/Double Barrelled Soul WA	06/08/1999
Bringin' It Home	02/02/1999
Jack-Pot	06/24/1997
Legends of Acid Jazz WA	06/23/1997
That's the Way I Feel About It WA	1997
Hot BBQ WA	03/03/1995
It's About Time WA	1995
The Heatin' System [Concord] WA	1994
Write On, Capt'n	1993
Color Me Blue WA	1992
Another Real Good'un WA	1990
The Re-Entry	03/1988
Who Knows What Tomorrow's Gonna Bring? WA	12/01/1970
Down Home Style WA	1969
Gin and Orange WA	1969
Moon Rappin'	1969
The Natural Thing	1968
Double Barrelled Soul WA	08/1967
Tobacco Road WA	04/1967
A Change Is Gonna Come	05/1966
Hot Barbeque WA	10/19/1965
Prelude WA	12/24/1964
Screamin'	10/23/1962
Brother Jack Meets the Boss WA	01/23/1962
The Honeydripper WA	02/03/1961
Brother Jack (Legends of Acid Jazz) WA	1961
Tough 'Duff WA	07/12/1960
Brother Jack WA	01/25/1960

A marvelous bandleader and organist as well as capable arranger, "Brother" Jack McDuff has one of the funkiest, most soulful styles of all time on the Hammond B-3. His rock-solid basslines and blues-drenched solos are balanced by clever, almost pianistic melodies and interesting progressions and phrases. McDuff began as a bassist playing with Denny Zeitlin and Joe Farrell. He studied privately in Cincinnati and worked with Johnny Griffin in Chicago. He taught himself organ and piano in the mid-'50s, and began gaining attention working with Willis Jackson in the late '50s and early '60s, cutting high caliber soul-jazz dates for Prestige. McDuff made his recording debut as a leader for Prestige in 1960, playing in a studio pickup band with Jimmy Forrest. They made a pair of outstanding albums: Tough Duff and The Honeydripper. McDuff organized his own band the next year, featuring Harold Vick and drummer Joe Dukes. Things took off when McDuff hired a young guitarist named George Benson. They were among the most popular combos of the mid-'60s and made several excellent albums. McDuff's later groups at Atlantic and Cadet didn't equal the level of the Benson band, while later dates for Verve and Cadet were uneven, though generally good. McDuff experimented with electronic keyboards and fusion during the '70s, then in the '80s got back in the groove with the Muse session Cap'n Jack. While his health fluctuated throughout the '90s, McDuff released several discs on the Concord Jazz label before succumbing to heart failure on January 23, 2001, at the age of 74. ~ Ron Wynn and Bob Porter, All Music Guide