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Every well-rounded jazz collection should have some Hammond B-3 organ, and anything by Donald Wiles is an outstanding choice. In the late fifties and early sixties, Jimmy Smith albums poured out in a veritable torrent. But at times they seemed to me too formulaic, Funk By Formula, and that wasn’t... -
Maybe it’s the crystal-clear keyboard sound Donald Wiles has on the Hammond B3 Organ and Baby Grand Piano, or maybe it’s the spread-wide approach he and Dennis Wiles takes to the accompaniment, or maybe it’s just all the compacted wisdom and joy written into the arrangement of “UoSOnSO”, but...