The Nightcrawlers - Jessie Cahill's Night Crawlers: Volume 3 (2013)

As a jazz import hailing from Canada, this outstanding b3 organ quintet has re-visited the funk soul jazz phenomennon that was once extremely popular. What is just as significant is the Night Crawlers have put into play a classic signature of their own.

It s hard to make a bad organ trio record, give the associations a whirring Leslie can conjure in our collective jazz perception. But when organ grinder Chris Gestrin mans the Hammond, a great record emerges. Gestrin plays with Vancouver, B.C. s Night Crawlers, exponents of the holy grail of 1960 s organ swing. Recorded live at Vancouver s Cellar Nighclub, the operative word on Presenting is authenticity, from mixing the recorded digital files on 2 inch tape to sweltering performances of material by Big John Patton, Jack McDuff and Horace Silver. This live record is practically a time machine.

JESSE CAHILL drums,
CHRIS GESTRIN b3 organ,
DAVE SIKULA guitar,
CORY WEEDS alto saxophone,
STEVE KALDESTAD tenor saxophone