GOSPEL-SOUL & VARIUS TRACKS SOUL-JAZZ: THE SCLC OPERATION BREADBASKET ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR – ON THE CASE ( 1970 ).ARRANGED BY GENE BARGE. & PINCRE SHELL, WONDERFUL ALBUM & ONE MASTERPIECE. Charles Stepney, Donny Hathaway, Edwin Daugherty, Gene Barge, Henry Gibson, Morris Jennings, Phil Upchurch, Prince Shell, Rev. Clay Evans,Tim Galloway, Warren Bingham...Ben Branch is One of the last people Martin Luther King, Jr. ( without a doubt one of the most important men in history and his murder was the point of no return to apartheid in the U.S.A. ) spoke to moments before his assassination in 1968...As musical director for the SCLC's Operation Breadbasket he led the Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir that performed benefits for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Operation/PUSH. Just moments before being assassinated, Dr. King had just asked Branch to play a Negro spiritual, "Precious Lord, Take My Hand," at a rally that was to have been held two hours later...Cannonball Adderley, in the introduction to the title track of his 1969 album Country Preacher, makes a specific mention of Branch in recognition of his work as leader of the Operation Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir...Prince Shell teamed up with Jesse Jackson and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1970 to arrange for and record their Operation Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir for Chess Records...

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The SCLC Operation Breadbasket Orchestra And Choir – On The Case

Sello:
Chess – LPS-1549
Formato:
Vinilo, LP, Album
País:
US
Publicado:
1970
Género:
Jazz, Funk / Soul
Estilo:
Gospel, Soul-Jazz

Lista de Títulos

A1 I Wish I Knew 3:03
A2 Nobody Knows 4:29
A3 What A Friend I Have In Jesus 6:00
A4 Precious Moments 5:30
A5 Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing 3:42
B1 Too Close 5:32
B2 Nearer My God To Thee 3:18
B3 Country Preacher 4:50
B4 What The World Needs Now Is Love 7:37
B5 We Shall Overcome 3:58


Fabricado por – Chess Producing Corp.

Créditos

Arranged By – Gene Barge (pistas: A3 to A5, B2, B3, B5), Prince Shell (pistas: A1, A2, B1, B4)
Art Direction – Dick Fowler
Bass – James Willis (5), Phil Upchurch
Chimes – Prince Shell
Congas – Master Henry*
Drums – Morris Jennings, Terry Thompson (5)
Engineer [Recording] – Stu Black
Engineer [Remix] – Dave Purple, Stu Black
Guitar – Warren Bingham, Wayne Bennett (2)
Illustration – Jim Temple (3)
Keyboards – David McCollough, Donny Hathaway, Floyd Morris, Freddy Young (3)
Leader – Ben Branch
Photography By – Jim Taylor (10)
Producer – Gene Barge
Reeds – Arthur O'Neil (2), Ben Branch, Charles Forester, Edwin Daugherty, Herman Bowden, Johnny Board
Supervised By – Ben Branch, Gene Barge, Rev. Jesse Jackson
Trombone – Charles Taylor (9), John Watson (2), Nadetmer Butler, Steve Galloway
Trumpet – Cleo Griffin, Hobie James, Maury Watson, Paul Serrano, Tim Galloway

Ben Branch & The Operation Breadbasket Orch. & Choir – The Last Request

Sello:
Chess – LPS-1524
Formato:
Vinilo, LP, Album, Stereo
País:
US
Publicado:
1968
Género:
Jazz, Funk / Soul
Estilo:
Gospel

Lista de Títulos

A1 Precious Lord, Take My Hand 9:22
A2 If I Could Help Somebody 3:27
A3 Let Us Break Bread Together 4:47
A4 We Shall Overcome 3:58
B1 Motherless Child 7:17
B2 My Heavenly Father 4:51
B3 Yield Not To Temptation 5:30
B4 Hard Times 5:06
B5 Battle Hymn Of The Republic 3:06


Créditos

Baritone Saxophone – Delbert Hill
Bass Guitar – Phil Upchurch
Drums – Harold Varner, Morris Jennings
Engineer – Malcolm Chisholm
Flugelhorn – Burgess Gardner
Guitar – Bryce Roberson, Wayne Bennett (2)
Organ – Charles Stepney
Organ, Piano – Leonard Caston (2)
Producer – Gene Barge
Tenor Saxophone – Ben Branch
Trombone – Al Fook*
Vocals – Rev. Clay Evans, Rev. Sammy Lewis*

Notas
Released with insert: a portrait of Martin Luther King (same as front cover).

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Eutrice Ulysses Shell
Perfil:
Eutrice Ulysses "Prince" Shell, accomplished musician, was born in Lott, Texas, USA, on December 31, 1928. He died on April 11 2007. He began playing piano as a child and later studied valve trombone at Chicago's DuSable High School with music educator and band director Walter Dyett. Shell honed his arranging skills while a member of the Tennessee State Collegians big-band at Tennessee State University and also at the Navy School of Music. During his service in the Air Force, Shell became "chief arranger" for the Strategic Air Command Band at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. He performed and toured with Gene Ammons and Gene McDaniels, and became the house pianist at Chicago's original Regal Theater where he appeared with Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, and others. Shell teamed up with Jesse Jackson and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1970 to arrange for and record their Operation Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir for Chess Records. Sun Ra and other nationally known musicians have performed and recorded his arrangements, and his works have been featured in concerts at the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music.

https://peoplepill.com/people/ben-branch

Ben F. Branch (1924 – December 12, 1988) was an American entrepreneur, jazz tenor saxophonist, and bandleader.

Although possibly better known as being one of the last people Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to moments before his assassination in 1968, Branch had been a leading bandleader for many years.

MUSICAL CAREER

With his brother, Thomas, on trumpet, Branch was a member of the horn section on B.B. King's first recordings for Bullet Records in 1949. "My very first recordings were for a company out of Nashville called Bullet, the Bullet Record Transcription company," King recalls. "I had horns that very first session. I had Phineas Newborn on piano; his father played drums, and his brother, Calvin, played guitar with me. I had Tuff Green on bass, Ben Branch on tenor sax, his brother, Thomas Branch, on trumpet, and a lady trombone player."

Branch recorded with King again on an early 1952 Memphis recording with the B.B. King Orchestra with, among others, Hank Crawford and Ike Turner.

For much of the 1950s, Branch was the bandleader for the house band, the Largos, at Curry's Club in North Memphis, which provided a young Isaac Hayes with his first professional gigs.

Future M.G. bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn was the first white member of Branch's big band, in the early 1960s.

In 1982 Branch founded the American Music Hall of Fame, a private music school in Chicago.

A few months before his death Branch appeared with his band at the 1987 Chicago Blues Festival backing Rosco Gordon.

Branch also recorded with Brother Jack McDuff and Etta James, Little Milton and Phil Upchurch.

Branch held a degree in music from Memphis State University.

BUSINESS CAREER

Branch was president of Doctor Products Inc., founded in 1983, in Chicago, Illinois, the nation's only black-owned soft-drink manufacturing company. The company eventually signed a $355 million agreement with Kemmerer Bottling Group, bottler of several well-known soft drinks, including 7Up, to distribute the Doctor Products beverages.

OPERATION BREADBASKET

As musical director for the SCLC's Operation Breadbasket he led the Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir that performed benefits for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Operation/PUSH. Just moments before being assassinated, Dr. King had just asked Branch to play a Negro spiritual, "Precious Lord, Take My Hand," at a rally that was to have been held two hours later.

Cannonball Adderley, in the introduction to the title track of his 1969 album Country Preacher, makes a specific mention of Branch in recognition of his work as leader of the Operation Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir.

While musical director of the Breadbasket Orchestra and Operation/PUSH, he arranged for gospel singer Deleon Richards to perform at the Chicago Stadium (later the United Center).