SHIRLEY SCOTT - Four Classic Albums (Great Scott / Like Cozy / Hip Soul / Happy Talk)

AVID Jazz presents four classic Shirley Scott albums plus, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.“Great Scott”; “Like Cozy”; “Hip Soul” and “Happy Talk”Like all of our four selections, the original liner notes for “Great Scott” seem to focus on the problems the Hammond organ has had being accepted as a true instrument of jazz! Not to mention the problems female musicians have had being accepted in a very male dominated world! Not in the hands of our featured artist, Miss Shirley Scott, we say!! Here’s a quote from the original liner notes……..”It doesn’t take long to realize that a genuine jazz feeling is embodied in the playing of Shirley Scott”. Oh and there are just a few comments that could be construed as slightly sexist, dare we say! Here’s one now………..!! “She is only a slip of a girl but she makes that Hammond roar when she wants to”. Here’s another from the same album notes….”Shirley Scott is a girl. At the organ she does a man size j