Funky Organs!

[Leonard Smalls]

And with added whammy clavinet...

 

 

[miles'tone]

Jimmy Smith. 🎤drop.

[Dan Dare]

18 hours ago, Hellzero said:

And don't forget the two jazz masters of the B3, Jimmy Smith and Rhoda Scott!

 

Yep. Check out Barbara Dennerlein, too. Amazing bass pedal work.

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by Dan Dare

[lowdown]

Chester Thompson - As well as his Tower of Power and Santana days, he has been on the road with his own bands and trios:

 

 

 

And I was going to mention his solo @14:00 on this live TOP gig, when Rocco drops out, leaving Chester and the Pedals.

But all the shenanigans are good!!

 

 

[Owen]

31 minutes ago, Dan Dare said:

 

Yep. Check out Barbara Dennerlein, too. Amazing bass pedal work.

 

 

OK organ fans. I play organ, very, very slowly and then bring the speed back up in Logic on my tracks, which the world is not ready for. I went to watch Delvon Lamarr in the interest of research (and grooviness) and was amazed at how "messy" (for the want of a better word, and looking at it through piano playing eyes) his technique was. Of course, it was superb and worked flawlessly for what he was doing. I stress again that I was looking through the eyes of a very poor pianist. So I adopted this into my Hammond playing and it worked. Barbara seems to be pumping the vol pedal rhythmically. This is a Hammond thing?

[Dan Dare]

17 minutes ago, Owen said:

OK organ fans. I play organ, very, very slowly and then bring the speed back up in Logic on my tracks, which the world is not ready for. I went to watch Delvon Lamarr in the interest of research (and grooviness) and was amazed at how "messy" (for the want of a better word, and looking at it through piano playing eyes) his technique was. Of course, it was superb and worked flawlessly for what he was doing. I stress again that I was looking through the eyes of a very poor pianist. So I adopted this into my Hammond playing and it worked. Barbara seems to be pumping the vol pedal rhythmically. This is a Hammond thing?

 

She uses the swell pedal, as all organists do, but not rhythmically, i.e. in a fixed time. She's using both feet on the bass pedals, which will obvs be rhythmic. I think that's what you're seeing. 

[Owen]

13 minutes ago, Dan Dare said:

 

She uses the swell pedal, as all organists do, but not rhythmically, i.e. in a fixed time. She's using both feet on the bass pedals, which will obvs be rhythmic. I think that's what you're seeing. 

She is certainly two footing it a lot of the time. I have been the victim of this when the local Hammond bod was playing faster lines with his feet than I was with my hands. Not that that is a major achievement really. Anyway, at 1:15 she is working that swell (vol? what was I thinking?) pedal. 

[Leonard Smalls]

 

[Hellzero]

Nobody mentioned it, but the Leslie cabinet is mandatory for a true Hammond B3 sound. 😉

[Steve Browning]

The wonderful Reese Wynans - 

 

 

Ron Levy - with some great 6 string bass from Jimmie Vaughn

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Steve Browning

[Hellzero]

3 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

And with added whammy clavinet...

 

 

I just keep watching it, excellent!

[Hellzero]

Highly recommended album from Tab Benoit with Steve Bailey playing his sixer fretless in tune and Paul English on B3...

 

 

 

[Hellzero]

18 hours ago, SumOne said:

Cheers all, I've been listening though the recommendations and added to my playlist for deeper digging. 

Wot? No Tommy Schneider in your list. 😱😉

[SumOne]

2 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

Wot? No Tommy Schneider in your list. 😱😉

This was my problem there:

 

[knirirr]

Here's another one, with Jimmy Smith playing one of my favourite basslines. It's a bit long ("if it's 3 minutes long, it ain't really jazz" etc.) but around 5 minutes in is particularly good.
 

 

[nekomatic]

May not be what you had in mind by ‘funky’, but as a ’90s indie kid (and adoptive Manc) I couldn’t not post this. 
 

 

[bass_dinger]

3 hours ago, Dan Dare said:

Check out Barbara Dennerlein, too. Amazing bass pedal work.

I watched a video of her once, and got increasingly annoyed with the camera angles - not once did they show the brilliant and sensitive Double Bass player.   About five minutes in, I realised that the bassist was her left foot...

Truly awesome playing. 

 

4 hours ago, miles'tone said:

Jimmy Smith. 🎤drop.

 

The Cat. Seems to be something of a standard, and often covered by YouTubers. 

 

 

[Maude]

He's been mentioned but I immediately thought Lachy Doley when I saw 'Funky Organ' 

 

 

 

 

[Hellzero]

10 minutes ago, Maude said:

He's been mentioned but I immediately thought Lachy Doley when I saw 'Funky Organ' 

 

 

 

 

Just watching the full live session, so funky!

[obi 2 kenobi]

The Honnet brothers 

 

 

[obi 2 kenobi]

Also Johnny Hammond

 

check out Gears album