![]() ![]() Then he teamed with organist Brother Jack McDuff (above) in 1960.īy then, Prestige Records had begun recording organ-sax combos to capitalize on the trend popularized by Blue Notes Jimmy Smith and Big John Patton. ![]() ![]() He soon moved to New York and worked briefly with trumpeter Howard McGhee and drummer Philly Joe Jones. The list is too long to feature here but it includes John Coltrane, Benny Golson, Stanley Turrentine, Hank Crawford and Tina Brooks.įor RB bnads, there was plenty of work at urban bars in African-American communities and all along the so-called Chitlin Circuitthe archipelago of clubs and theaters between the East Coast and Midwest that booked such groups.īorn in Rocky Mount, N.C., in 1936, Vick began playing in his high school band before attending Howard University in Washington, D.C., as a psychology major. ![]()
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