Brian Charette: Power From the Air
13 March 2021 Brian Charette thinks like a jazz organist and like a rock and roll lover, both, so his latest recording for his four-woodwind sextet testifies. On the one hand, Charette’s latest release, Power from the Air, is a classic jazz organ session, with Charette’s Hammond B3 swelling, shimmering, and providing the bass lines as it grooves with drummer Brian Fishler, saxophone solos riding on top. The grooves are powerful and swinging—you can tell that Charette has never skimped on the Jimmy Smith or Jimmy McGriff listening that Hammond B3 specialists need to have in their blood...