Jimmy McGriff - Friday the 13th Cook County Jail

2007 CD reissue. 1 Freedom Suite Part 1 2 Freedom Suite Part 2 3 Green Dolphin Street 4 Everything Happens to Mo 5 Cherokee This album contains two separate sets that were both performed before inmates at the Cook County Jail one day in 1972. Organist Jimmy McGriff and his quintet (with guitarists George Freeman and O'Donell Levy, bassist Mickey Bass and drummer Marion Booker, Jr.) performs his lengthy two-part "Freedom Suite," generating a great deal of heat. Lucky Thompson, mostly on soprano, jams on three standards with keyboardist Cedar Walton, bassist Sam Jones and drummer Louis Hayes. Thompson's hot playing (particularly on "Cherokee") makes this album worth searching for. Scott Yanow ~ AllMusicGuide