Grover Washington, Jr. > Inner City Blues (Make Me Want To Holler)
Composed by Marvin Gaye

I guess it’s actually Soul Jazz Week, Horn Edition, since I’ve avoided organists altogether, but I’ll save them until next time.

Soul Jazz Week #6
Legends of Soul Jazz #10
Legends of the Saxophone #14 
Cover #35

David “Fathead” Newman (& Ray Charles) > Hard Times
RIP February 24, 1933 – January 20, 2009

Eric Homan just let me know that in the last couple of weeks we’ve lost two of the key soul jazz legends of the Ray Charles Orchestra.

Soul Jazz Week #4
Legends of Soul Jazz #8
Legends of the Saxophone #12

Stanley Turrentine > Sugar
Composed by Stanley Turrentine

Stanley did everything (straight jazz, soul, ballads) so well and so commercially that all the jazzbos take him for granted* (me included) or dismiss him entirely. Creed Taylor figured out how to put it all together in Sugar.

Soul Jazz Week #2
Legends of Soul Jazz #6 
Legends of the Saxophone #11

* Check out his paltry Wikipedia entry, and then, to find out what’s what listen to this great NPR profile.