This spectacularly so-so excursion into public domain blues riffs by Brother Jack McDuff is certainly not up to the standard of his classic Prestige albums of the preceding decade with the likes of Jimmy Forrest, Grant Green, Gene Ammons, Red Holloway and George Benson.

The 10-minute opener features the organist, whose manipulation of his organ stops ends up producing a sound more like a castrated clavinet than a mighty Hammond B-3.

On ‘Three Blind Mice’, McDuff’s choice of stop settings is again questionable, as he squawks his way through an extended “bluesy” solo before turning to the Jimmy Smith cliche of a sustained tonic chord using on the top keyboard, while working up a ‘funky’ counter line on the lower, bass keyboard. His backing band are of a semi-pro competent hotel band standard: functional, but no no more and simply add to the feeling that this particular tape discovery of previously unreleased tracks maybe should have remained at the bottom of the box. Despite the extended liner note encomium extolling McDuff’s reputation, there is little joy to be found here.