Jimmy McGriff – The Big Band: A Tribute to Basie (CD)

Jimmy McGriff came up through the organ soul-jazz tradition alongside Jimmy Smith and Brother Jack McDuff, but his grittier, blues-soaked touch always set him apart. Recorded at the height of the boogaloo era, this session finds him stretching toward the swinging big band vocabulary of Basie's Kansas City lineage, a natural bridge between the chitlin circuit and the jazz mainstream that McGriff navigated better than almost anyone of his generation.