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Clifton "Jiggs" Chase
Clifton (* 1940) is a jazz-funk organ player, composer, and influential record producer from New Jersey, USA.
One of the earliest known recordings is his organ playing on the 1964 Joe Thomas recording "Speak Your Piece".
In 1976, he did a record date in New York as a side-man to tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders on the album "Pharoah".
During the 1980s he was an in-house arranger and producer for Sugar Hill Records.
Alongside contemporaries Herbie Hancock and Afrika Bambaataa, "Jiggs" contributed to hip hop's acoustic to electronic transformation. He also received co-writing credit on the Sugar Hill hit "Apache", which contains one of the most widely sampled breakbeats in history. Additional credits include arranging "That's the Joint" by the Funky Four Plus One and "My Favorite Person" by the O'Jays. Chase was the in house producer/arranger at Sugar Hill Recording Studio in Englewood, NJ which was destroyed in a fire in 2002. Clifton also co-wrote many 80's dance tracks with influential hi-nrg producer & composer Bobby Orlando. from Wikipedia |
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Speak Your Piece Sue LP 1025 released 1964 recorded 1963 |
Joe Thomas, tenor sax, flute Bill Elliott, drums Robbie Porter, baritone sax Jimmy McLinton, guitar Jiggs Chase, organ |
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Comin' Home Cobblestone CBS-7001 released 1968 |
Joe Thomas, flute Jimmy Wilkinson, guitar Jimmy Ponder, guitar Jiggs Chase, organ Robby Porter, baritone sax Kenny Polland, drums |
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Natural Soul Prestige PRST 7541 released 1968 recorded November 1967 in Englewood Cliffs, NJ/USA |
Buddy Terry, tenor sax, flute Joe Thomas, tenor sax, flute Robbie Porter, baritone sax Woody Shaw, trumpet, flugelhorn Wally Richardson, guitar Jiggs Chase, organ Larry Young, organ, piano Jimmy Lewis, bass Eddie Gladden, drums The Terry Girls, vocals |
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Joy Of Cookin' Groove Merchant GM 504 released 1972 |
Joe Thomas, flute Seldon Powell, tenor sax Arthur F. Clarke, baritone sax Billy Phipps, baritone sax Robbie Porter, baritone sax Garrett Brown, trombone Ernest Royal, trumpet Jimmy Ponder, guitar David A. Spinozza, guitar Jiggs Chase, organ Gordon H. Edwards, bass Kenny Pollard, drums Bill La Vorgna, drums Gordon Powell, congas |
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Pharoah Indiana Navigation 1027 released 1977 recorded August/September 1976 in USA |
Pharoah Sanders, tenor sax, percussion, vocals Bedria Sanders, harmonium Tisziji Muñoz, guitar Clifton "Jiggs" Chase, organ Steve Neil, bass Greg Bandy, drums Lawrence Killian, percussion |
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