Leon Spencer - Louisiana Slim (1971) [2014 Rare Groove Funk Best Collection 1000]

Sublime Hammond from the amazing Leon Spencer – heard here at the height of his younger years, when he was cooking up as much magic in the studio as Johnny Hammond or Charles Earland – and really stretching things out, in ways that take the jazz organ format much farther than the giants of a decade before! The date's an all-out great one in the Prestige funky jazz mode – with Spencer on organ, Melvin Sparks on guitar, Grover Washington Jr on tenor, and Idris Muhammad on drums – a bit more subtle than before, but still plenty darn funky! Tracks are nice and long – and the record includes the originals "Louisiana Slim", "Our Love Will Never Die", "The Trouble With Love", and a cover of "Mercy Mercy Me".


Tracks:

01 - Louisiana Slim
02 - Mercy Mercy Me
03 - (They Long To Be) Close To You
04 - Our Love Will Never Die
05 - The Trouble With Love

Personnel:

Leon Spencer Jr. - organ
Virgil Jones - trumpet
Grover Washington Jr. - tenor saxophone, flute
Melvin Sparks - guitar
Idris Muhammad - drums
Buddy Caldwell - conga