Charles Kynard Where It’s At! (Pacific Jazz 1963)

Charles Kynard’s gospel and blues-drenched first album as a leader didn’t cut a bad figure. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Charles Kynard (organ), Clifford Scott (tenor saxophone), Howard Roberts (guitar), Ray Crawford (guitar A1), Milt Turner (drums), Leroy Henderson (drums A1) Recorded in 1963 at Pacific Jazz Studios, Los Angeles Released as Pacific Jazz 72 in 1963 Track listing Side A: I’ll Fly Away / Amazing Grace / Motherless Child / The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow / I Want To Be Ready / Side B: Smooth Sailing / I Wonder / Blue Greens And Beans / Sports Lament / Where It’s At [/half] [row-end] I always thought that Elliott, the boy from E.T., and Elliott Smith, the greatest songwriter since Lennon & McCartney, were the only ones that had and extra ‘t’ behind their name. Positively off-beat. Apparently not. It was Smith’s own choosing, but E.T.’s Elliott Taylor (definitely) and Charles Elliott Kynard (likely) had had no say in the matter. Kynard, born in St. Louis,…