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This was Sixties organ trio swing and could they swing
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HOUSTON PERSON ORGAN TRIO
PIZZA EXPRESS, SOHO
★★★★
Eighty-five-year old tenor saxophonist Houston Person of Florence, South Carolina, made his first album, Blue Odyssey, in 1968, the year that Martin Luther King was killed and thousands assembled in Washington in their tents and shanties for the Poor People’s Campaign.
As he belted his opener, Johnny Griffin’s Sweet Sucker, full of authority and defiance, he was joined on this Soho night by organist Ben Paterson and drummer Willie Jones III.
This was Sixties organ trio swing — and could they swing.
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