Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen (Blue Note Classic Edition)

Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen (Blue Note Classic Edition)Stop and Listen is a firecracker of an organ jazz album from the incomparable Baby Face Willette. Originally released in 1961, this soulful session captures Willette at the top of his gamegrooving hard and burning bright with gospel roots, blues swagger, and a sharp modern jazz edge. From the punchy opener Willow Weep for Me to originals like Chances Are Few and the title track Stop and Listen, Willettes Hammond B3 sings with grit and grace. Joined by

with College Music Journal calling the album "awfully hard to resist" while Dayton Voice was hypnotized

tangled walls of sound give way suddenly

He is joined by Will Ivy on electric guitar and Tim Hellman (Thee Oh Sees) on bass

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Happenings Ten Years Time Ago 7"-The classic psychedelic single (featuring future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones) has been newly remastered for this release

Within the shit and terror of 2022 it's even understandable to yearn for something like that

built on tight

" showcasing the groundbreaking style that defined punk rock

playing neither "leads" nor making drone-music

head-twisting

is workmanlike

the latter of whose theatrical