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The Vinyl Vault gets down with the funky organ of Johnny Hammond and his 1972 session “Wild Horses Rock Steady.” The album was an early release on the Kudu record label, a subsidiary of Creed Taylor’s CTI label.
Johnny Hammond, also known as Johnny “Hammond” Smith was a prolific organist in the mid-20
th Century, recording over 35 albums under his own name from 1958 through 1978. He started in the hard bop realm, but by the early 70s was gravitating toward a funkier sound making his signing with Kudu in 1971 a natural progression.
For “Wild Horses Rock Steady,” Kudu lined up some of its top players including George Benson, Grover Washington, Jr., Snooky Young, Pepper Adams, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham and Bernard Purdie among others. The song selection drew from the pop music of the day including the title tracks “Wild Horses” by Jagger and Richards and Aretha Franklin’s “Rock Steady.” Others include “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” from J
Four iconic Chet Baker records reissued on vinyl
By Adam Feibel Craft Recordings
Four of Chet Baker’s most beloved albums from the late ’50s are being reissued on vinyl this year.
Craft Recordings is repressing the jazz legend’s catalogue with the renowned Riverside record label between 1958 and 1959.
Those four albums are
Chet Baker in New York,
Chet and
Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe.
Each album was cut from its original analog master tapes and has been pressed on 180-gram vinyl.
These individually reissued records follow 2019’s five-LP deluxe vinyl box set,
The Legendary Riverside Albums. Called a “must-have” by
If you're old enough, you might recall the comic Godfrey Cambridge from late-night television in the 1960s, when he was one of a new wave of black
Vinyl reissues scheduled for Chet Bakerâs iconic Riverside catalog
Chet Bakerâs iconic Riverside catalog will get vinyl reissues for four titles this March via Craft Recordings.
Author:
Jan 7, 2021
Chet Bakerâs iconic Riverside catalog will get vinyl reissues for four titles this March via Craft Recordings.
Los Angeles, CA (January 7, 2021)
Craft Recordings is pleased to reissue four classic, remastered titles from legendary jazz artist
Chet Baker. Set for release on
March 5th and available for pre-order now, the albums comprise Baker’s entire output as a leader for the renowned jazz label
Riverside all recorded and released between 1958 and 1959: