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 11 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 9 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 

[Hellzero]

8 hours ago, Hellzero said:

I just keep watching it, excellent!

And loved it so much that I bought his two last live albums. Thanks @Leonard Smalls ! 😊

[Hellzero]

By the way, nobody mentioned Steve Winwood so far as he is an excellent Hammond player too...