Now on this set is a jazz piano player I can get into and do: Bobby TImmons.. very funky.. one of the earliest of soul jazz players before there even was such a thing..wrote some great songs which Art Blakey made famous like Moanin'...
Of course unlike the by the numbers Oscar Peterson he did not get recorded much as a leader.. got in trouble and died young...sigh..
I think but can't prove that Timmons influenced guys like Bobby Byrd... the whole house music scene which sort of came out of Byrd's piano on that one Brown song.. I think it goes back to Timmons..but its just speculation..
I love Julian Adderley...very soulful jazz player not at all "out there" or free jazzy which is something I don't get much into...Adderley is the perfect foil for Coltrane on Davis' Kind of Blue.. they are both necessary even if Coltrane's solos are the ones studied by musicians... Adderley has a warmth to his playing that I really enjoy....
