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'Brother' Jack McDuff |
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Name: 'Brother' Jack McDuff
| Nee: |
Eugene McDuffy |
| Born: |
17 Sep 1926 |
| Died: |
25 Jan 2001 |
| Origin: |
Champagne, Illinois, United States |
| Instruments: |
Organ |
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| Jack McDuff taught himself to play the piano and then became adept on the organ. He studied music in Cincinnati before playing with R & B bands in 1948. By 1954 he had formed his own jazz group playing throughout the Midwest. He broke up the group the following year and left the music scene. Returning a year later he was now a bass player. This was the ideal introduction to the Hammond organ. Before signed a recording contract with Prestige Records, McDuff worked with saxophonist Willis Jackson in the late 1950's. With Prestige he teamed up with he teamed up with tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest on the classic studio sets Tough Duff and The Honeydripper. Late in 1961 he joined in recording sessions with Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Between 1962 and 1965, McDuff worked with George Benson. |
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