The City Champs The Safecracker Electraphonic 103

The City Champs, in Memphis, show fealty to Booker T. and the MGs, but if they’re old-fashioned at all it’s due to their predilection for soul jazz. The bank safe-deposit box these three “safecrackers” bust into is the one labeled “Blue Note: Grant Green, with Jack McDuff or John Patton.” -Frank-John Hadley