Brother Jack McDuff - Memphis in June (Performance)
Lesson time: (4min 17sec)
Joe Glossop breaks down Brother Jack McDuff's version of 'Memphis in June' on Hammond-its restrained melody, left-hand comping and McDuff's sweet solo.
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This lesson is part of the course Authentic Hammond Language for Soul & Jazz
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Lesson transcript:
Music Lesson: Jack MacDuff's "Memphis in June"
So we're going to look at another Jack MacDuff tune, his version of quite a well-known tune called "Memphis in June."
Overview
- It's a really pretty, very minimal, and restrained melody.
- It has a classic sort of jazz tone in your right hand.
- There's going to be some comping underneath where the horn solo is, and some backing in your left hand underneath the melody.
Jack's Solo
We'll also have a look at the solo that Jack plays himself, which is very, very sweet and very effective.
And, yeah, here we go.
Intro
The intro has a very much standalone tone, which is quite interesting.
About the instructor
Joe Glossop is a keyboard player from Sheffield who has made his name on the Hammond organ. He currently holds the organ chair in Tom Jones's touring band, and has played with Van Morrison and James Hunter, as well as on piano and Rhodes. His courses get the real Hammond sound out of any keyboard - drawbar registration, the Leslie, the walking-bass left hand, and the comping and soloing vocabulary of the soul-jazz, blues and rock organ traditions, from Jimmy Smith to Booker T. read more