''The Dream Team'' is an album by organist
Jimmy McGriff recorded in 1996 and released on the
Milestone
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label the following year.
[Jazzlists:Milestone Records 9000 Series](_blank)
accessed October 23, 2018
Reception
Allmusic
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'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".
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". 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".
[Franklin, D]
JazzTimes Review
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Track listing
All compositions by Jimmy McGriff except where noted
# "McGriffin" (David "Fathead" Newman) – 7:12
# "
Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away" (
Willie Nelson
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) – 6:19
# "Red Hot 'n' New" – 7:40
# "Fleetwood Stroll" – 9:49
# "
Don't Blame Me" (
Jimmy McHugh,
Dorothy Fields) – 11:29
# "
'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" (
Porter Grainger,
) – 8:14
# "
Things Ain't What They Used to Be
"Things Ain't What They Used to Be" is a 1942 jazz standard with music by Mercer Ellington and lyrics by Ted Persons.
Background
In 1941 there was a strike against the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, of which Duke Ellington ...
" (
Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 11:13
Personnel
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Jimmy McGriff –
Hammond X-B3 organ
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David "Fathead" Newman –
tenor saxophone
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Red Holloway – tenor saxophone,
alto saxophone
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Mel Brown –
guitar
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Bernard Purdie
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drums
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References
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Milestone Records albums
Jimmy McGriff albums
1997 albums
Albums produced by Bob Porter (record producer)
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio