McGriff, Jimmy – 100% Pure Funk – New CD

CD.    COMPACT DISC.    CD.    COMPACT DISC.     CD.   While I never got to witness McGriff in person, he did turn me on to soul-jazz.  I was working at a shop in Michigan, bored with the butt-rockers that dominated the radio airwaves at that time (early 80s) and with a suggestion from my boss George, decided to broaden my horizons and give jazz a try.  For the most part, I just didn't get it, and if I did, I still didn't like it, but then this cat came on with this groove sound and I was hooked.  I waited for the set to finish with grease marker in hand to write down the name of that cat with the crazy funky organ, and when the announcement came, I wrote down that name on the flange of a four-inch pipe, Jimmy McGriff.  I felt really good that day.   One of the all-time giants of the Hammond B-3, Jimmy McGriff sometimes gets lost amid all the great soul-jazz organists from his hometown of Philadelphia. He was almost certainly the bluesiest of the major soul-jazz pioneers, and indee