Barney McClure takes his Hammond B3 and pits it up against a hard swinging big band to a 6 gun-shoot-out of a draw here with some fun and hard hitting charts of originals and standards. You get some shuffling boogie on “Hookin’ It” along with Owen Wvans’ alto, while the team swaggers on “Slow Boat to China” along with McClure’s B3 busting up the keys. There’s a nifty groove on “Spot” while a mix of gospel simmers on “Horace Toccato.” Ryan Donnelly’s bass is slick on “Tick Tock” and the whole team taps along with Taryn Zickefoose’s drums on “Willow Weep For Me.” The feature here, though is the wonderfully foggy Hammond which is a presence to be dealt with on every number, upping the intensity or adding hand grenades of punctuation marks. A real cooker!
OA2 Records