The Dream Team is an album by organist Jimmy McGriff recorded in 1996 and released on the Milestone label the following year.Payne, D. Jimmy McGriff Discography, accessed October 23, 2018Jazzlists:Milestone Records 9000 Series, accessed October 23, 2018Both Sides Now: Milestone Label Discography, accessed October 23, 2018Jazzlists: album info, accessed October 23, 2018
Reception
Allmusic's Richard S. Ginell said: "Everybody swings, everybody listens intuitively to each other and feels the down-home churchy grooves, and they recorded it all in one day at Rudy Van Gelder's studio. This has the ingredients for ranking as an instant classic in this idiom". On All About Jazz, Douglas Payne noted "It's nice to hear Jimmy McGriff like this, and I highly recommend The Dream Team to the McGriff mob and those folks into some good contemporary acid jazz".Payne, D. All About Jazz Review, accessed October 22, 2018 In JazzTimes, David Franklin wrote "For that good ol’ blues-drenched, Hammond B-3-style-jazz, you can't do much better than this. The recording boasts some of the masters of the genre and they live up to expectations. ... Infectious music you'll want to come back to".Franklin, D. JazzTimes Review, accessed October 23, 2018
Track listing All compositions by Jimmy McGriff except where noted "McGriffin" (David "Fathead" Newman) – 7:12 "Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away" (Willie Nelson) – 6:19 "Red Hot 'n' New" – 7:40 "Fleetwood Stroll" – 9:49 "Don't Blame Me" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 11:29 "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" (Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins) – 8:14 "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 11:13
Personnel Jimmy McGriff – Hammond X-B3 organ David "Fathead" Newman – tenor saxophone Red Holloway – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone Mel Brown – guitar Bernard Purdie − drums
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