Search - Gene Ludwig Trio :: Duff's Blues: Live From The Zoellner Arts Center

* Produced by Grammy Award winner Jack Kreisberg and established big band leader and arranger Bill Warfield. * Gene Ludwig has been called the country's most passionate exponent of the jazz organ. In a career that has lasted over forty years, he has cemented a place for himself in the first rank of Hammond organ masters. * A dynamic and innovative composer, clinician, and educator, Bill Warfield has energized audiences, performers, and writers for more than two decades. He has performed with many well-known artists including Ornette Coleman, Mel Lewis, Paul Anka, Mel Torme, and more. "There is a consistency in Gene Ludwig's work that merits mention ... arguably his crowning achievement." -- All About Jazz "Warfield's score is typical of the band's recorded output in using the ensemble in a strikingly flexible way, with frequent changes of pace, emphasis, texture. This is to say that the arrangements are very demanding, but the band, which on this showing has few evident weaknesses, plays them with fire and accuracy." -- The Wire "Warfield's kind of music is a mixture of adventurous modernistic pieces, jazz tinged salsa, and post-bop hipness ... as an arranger, trumpeter Warfield is a top-rate craftsman, perhaps one of the best on the scene." -- JazzTimes