Freddie Roach, Brown Sugar, 1964 on Blue Note

Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, with Joe Henderson, Eddie Wright, and Clarence Johnston joining Freddie Roach. As Roach says in the liner notes, describing folks dancing: “I watched that multitude of people pulsing, boiling, melting, looking for all the world like sweet fudge. I thought this is my favorite dessert – Brown Sugar. If only I could make an album that had this feeling.”

This was his fourth full-length on Blue Note – great jazz/soul fusion organ music.

My copy is the 2023 Vinyl Me, Please reissue as part of Vinyl Me, Please Classics, with listening notes booklet by Ashawnta Jackson.

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