At the beginning of the summer I featured "Hot Sauce," one of my all-time favorite soul-jazz jams by organist Big John Patton, as a 12 O'Clock Track. One of the things that makes that performance so irresistible is the groovy, supercatchy solo by guitarist Grant Green, a musician who knew how to repeat and break apart a single phrase with more imagination, grit, and soul than just about any electrist in the history of jazz.…
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