Wikipedia

The Dream Team (Jimmy McGriff album)

The Dream Team is an album by organist Jimmy McGriff recorded in 1996 and released on the Milestone label the following year.[1][2][3][4]

The Dream Team
Studio album by
Jimmy McGriff
Released1997
RecordedAugust 19, 1996
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englwood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz
Length61:46
LabelMilestone
MCD-9268-2
ProducerBob Porter
Jimmy McGriff chronology
Blues Groove
(1995) 		The Dream Team
(1997) 		Road Tested
(1997)

Reception

edit
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic     [5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings    [6]

Allmusic's Richard S. Ginell said: "Everybody swings, everybody listens intuitively to each other and feels the down-home churchy grooves, and they recorded it all in one day at Rudy Van Gelder's studio. This has the ingredients for ranking as an instant classic in this idiom".[5] On All About Jazz, Douglas Payne noted "It's nice to hear Jimmy McGriff like this, and I highly recommend The Dream Team to the McGriff mob and those folks into some good contemporary acid jazz".[7] In JazzTimes, David Franklin wrote "For that good ol’ blues-drenched, Hammond B-3-style-jazz, you can't do much better than this. The recording boasts some of the masters of the genre and they live up to expectations. ... Infectious music you'll want to come back to".[8]

Track listing

edit

All compositions by Jimmy McGriff except where noted

  1. "McGriffin" (David "Fathead" Newman) – 7:12
  2. "Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away" (Willie Nelson) – 6:19
  3. "Red Hot 'n' New" – 7:40
  4. "Fleetwood Stroll" – 9:49
  5. "Don't Blame Me" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 11:29
  6. "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" (Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins) – 8:14
  7. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 11:13

Personnel

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ Payne, D. Jimmy McGriff Discography, accessed October 23, 2018
  2. ^ Jazzlists:Milestone Records 9000 Series, accessed October 23, 2018
  3. ^ Both Sides Now: Milestone Label Discography, accessed October 23, 2018
  4. ^ Jazzlists: album info, accessed October 23, 2018
  5. ^ a b Ginell, Richard S.. Jimmy McGriff: The Dream Team – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 971. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. ^ Payne, D. All About Jazz Review, accessed October 22, 2018
  8. ^ Franklin, D. JazzTimes Review, accessed October 23, 2018
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Dream_Team_(Jimmy_McGriff_album)&oldid=1097349043"