{"id":507,"date":"2006-11-12T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T10:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2006\/11\/brother-jack-mc.html"},"modified":"2006-11-12T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T10:07:39","slug":"brother-jack-mc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/11\/brother-jack-mc.html","title":{"rendered":"Brother Jack McDuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/hammond.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/hammond_1.jpg\"><\/a>&nbsp; If you love the Hammond B-3 organ then you must hear Brother Jack McDuff.&nbsp; He is one of the most obvious links between jazz and the church.&nbsp; Drawing upon the soul of the saints and one of the halmark instruments of the traditional black church, he back one of the innovators of Soul Jazz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/mcduffpic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"271\" alt=\"Mcduffpic\" src=\"https:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/findingthegroove\/images\/mcduffpic.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>McDuff was known for his seemingly simple yet extremely complicated style and also for hiring a young unknown George Bensen as his guitarist.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/hammond_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Hammond_2\" src=\"https:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/findingthegroove\/images\/hammond_2.jpg\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Soul Jazz is a style of jazz that drew heavily upon the blues and gospel.&nbsp; Whenever you hear him play it immediately takes you to church.&nbsp; So if your yearning for some old school organ get some Mcduff and let it lift you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you love the Hammond B-3 organ then you must hear Brother Jack McDuff.&nbsp; He is one of the most obvious links between jazz and the church.&nbsp; Drawing upon the soul of the saints and one of the halmark instruments of the traditional black church, he back one of the innovators of Soul Jazz.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brother Jack McDuff - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/11\/brother-jack-mc.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brother Jack McDuff - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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