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Rhoda Scott is American and grew up playing organ in New York, and combines her original compositions with jazz tunes, classical music themes and Gospel and Negro Spirituals. On this compilation, selected and sequenced by Rhoda herself (*role model) she plays jazz standards like Satin Doll, and originals like Bitter Street, Toe Jam and Blues at the Bilboquet.
This recording includes a very cheery version of On Green Dolphin Street - very unlike the film, in which Lana Turner crawls along a desolate beach in rags as the loud theme swells melodramatically behind her, but then again On Green Dolphin Street has become part of a swinging jazz repertoire. More fitting to Lana Turner's distress is the mysterious, avant-garde intro to Ebb Tide, an intro that had me rushing to the sound system in amazement - a Hammond organ CAN sound like crashing waves.
Jazz organ is like listening to someone playing three instruments at once, no bass player needed, very full, often baroque, and very prone to swinging hard. Its not the most common instrument in jazz and so her contribution is unique as well as impressive. *the recording reviewed here is a cassette that isn't easily available online, although you might want to try visiting her website and asking there. But this link will get you to some of her other recordings.
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