Maybe you're cooking today for the holiday weekend. Or perhaps you're driving long distance to attend a family gathering or to visit a friend. Or you may just be going for a long bike ride or working during the long weekend. How does three hours of uninterrupted Charles Earland sound to you? I thought so.
Known as the Mighty Burner, the Philadelphia soul-jazz organist began playing the Hammond in 1968 and went on to form some of jazz's finest high-energy organ combo recordings. Earland was best known for building sassy keyboard riffs into tremendous crescendos before winding down and out.
Here's a whole mess of ad-free Charles Earland...
Other ad-free Backgrounders in my series:
- Zoot Sims Plays Bossa Nova, go here.
- Lee Morgan: Lee-Way, go here.
- Bossa Nova for Swinging Lovers, go here.
- Leon Spencer: Louisiana Slim, go here.
- Bossa Nova Modern Quartet: Bossa Nova Jazz Samba, go here.
- Bill Evans & Luiz Eça: Piano Four Hands, go here.
- Ray Brown Trio: Don't Get Sassy, go here.
- Os Tatuis: Os Tatuis, go here.
- Waltel Branco: Mancini Tambem É Samba, go here.
- Jack Wilson Plays Brazilian Mancini, go here.
- Conjunto Copacabana Bossa: Bossa, go here.
- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Swings Lightly, go here.
