Con-Soul & Sax is an album by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges and organist Wild Bill Davis featuring performances recorded in 1965 and released on the RCA Victor label.Discogs album entry accessed February 18, 2016 The title is a play on words based on the term "console organ", which is a term for an organ having at least two 61-note manuals and a 25-note radiating pedal clavier. Both the Hammond B-3 and C-3, which Davis played most frequently, are console organs.
Reception
The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars.
Track listing "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) - 3:45 "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 3:13 "Lil' Darlin'" (Neal Hefti) - 4:09 "Con-Soul and Sax" (Wild Bill Davis) - 4:51 "The Jeep Is Jumpin'" (Duke Ellington) - 2:25 "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) - 3:25 "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) - 4:01 "Drop Me Off in Harlem" (Ellington, Nick Kenny) - 4:24 "No One" (Hodges, Mercer Ellington) - 3:19 "Johnny Come Lately" (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:06
Personnel Wild Bill Davis - organ Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone Dickie Thompson - lead guitar Mundell Lowe - rhythm guitar Milt Hinton, George Duvivier - double bass Osie Johnson - drums
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