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Nigel Price Organ Trio

Live!

Jazzizit JITCD0953

Fellow guitarist Jim Mullen says of Nigel Price: 'great chops, good taste, great sound', and on this album, in which the latter's trio – completed by Hammond player Pete Whittaker and drummer Matt Home – is caught live on tour at various venues in April/May 2009, all three qualities are on display.

Price's most obvious influence is Wes Montgomery, and the album begins with a hard-swinging visit to Wes's brother Buddy's 'Bock to Bock' (a tribute to Pacific Jazz's producer Richard Bock, first recorded by Wes on 1957's Fingerpickin' with Buddy on vibes), and also contains two Wes compositions, 'Jingles' (from the 1959 Riverside trio album with organist Melvin Rhyne and drummer Paul Parker, a band that provides something of a template for this one) and 'S.O.S.' (from the live album Full House).

Like his great inspiration, Price leavens his bluesy shuffles-based sets with unfussy but tasty visits to standards and jazz classics, here represented by 'My Favourite Things', a slow-burning 'Angel Eyes', 'When Sunny Gets Blue' and the rousing Ellington flagwaver, 'Cottontail'.

Also featuring an original, 'Mozambique', this is an utterly unpretentious, immediately accessible but carefully selected and skilfully performed album that will be extremely popular with the many admirers of Price's neat but vigorous playing, whether they've come to him via his own trio, or his more acid-jazz-based work with the likes of JTQ or the Filthy Six.