Breathe: Vinyl 2LP #.show-split Pastel Blues (1965)

Pastel Blues (1965)

Described by critic Scott Yanow as “one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists”

Brother Jack McDuff was already a well-established and prolific organist who led his own soul jazz bands throughout the 1960s when he came to Blue Note Records in 1969

Maria Schneider

At its core the album is both a celebration and critique of America—each song is about a specific geographical location in the United States—but it is also

Breathe: Vinyl 2LP #.show-split Pastel Blues (1965)Breathe captures the Hammond B 3 organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith during his 75th birthday run at the Jazz Standard in NYC in 2017, the same week he recorded his acclaimed trio album All In My Mind. On this night the good doctor took the stage with an expanded line up featuring Jonathan Kreisberg on guitar, Johnathan Blake on drums, John Ellis on tenor saxophone, Jason Marshall on baritone saxophone, Sean Jones on trumpet, and Robin Eubanks on trombone.