Charles Earland: 'Soul Crib,' 1969

The album set the tone for the organ's dominant role in the era's soul-jazz combos

There were two great periods of the jazz organ combo. One was the late 1950s and early 1960s, with gospel-influenced organists such as Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott, Brother Jack McDuff, Richard “Groove” Holmes, Jimmy McGriff, Larry Goldings, Baby Face Willette, Larry Young, Melvin Rhyne and Big John Patton. The second period in the late 1960s and early ‘7…