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B-3 lesser knowns - jazzboCR - 22-05-2014
Here's 3 masters of the Hammond B-3 (or a sound-a-like). A Japanese woman working in NJ, USA, a German woman living in Germany and a man living in, I believe, the USA.
Akiko Tsuruga Akiko-san to her legions of fans (I'm a US plank-owner). Sweet and petite but she can make that B-3 roar. In the best soul-jazz tradition, she takes a tune from a whisper to a scream then brings it back down. Plays frequently with Houston Person--she's played with the best saxmen/guitarists in the Philly-NYC corridor. I've seen her in dives, country benefits and swell places--she puts it out there the same everywhere--top-notch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMmoO2wpvQY << concert in Tokyo and a great intro to her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_8E8SJ1lhU << 11 minutes well-spent--make that, invested. She and pianist/singer Karin Allyson do this better than anyone.
http://www.youtube.coistm/watch?v=DasI6UIJrrc << her working 4tet and they really enjoy the gigs. Like her better in the kimono. Bob DeVos is a leader on his own.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbdG13r0B_0 << what I am talking about...Eargasm.
Barbara Dennerlein takes the B-3 in a different direction: Bop and beyond. And before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ut7yIuCEY << good bio by the uploader; a tour de force by Ms. Dennerlein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPqYZNqg15g << ...then we go to something distinctly non-bop that just flat git's it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvgsU-RuKlo << I couldn't find the entire 18 minute duet with a pipe organist--bet that's a pip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EK2PjyF08U << sublime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUnG97D8c50 << as 1 commenter said, "She makes me crazy with her gifts."
Larry Goldings You've heard him 1000 times--you just didn't always know it. He's got 10 discs but has been a sideman for everybody and good songwriter and behind-the-glass guy too. Not just included here for gender diversity *. Here's his wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Goldings Here's music he's directly responsible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiyRBNL2Z7Q << always plenty of space for his players
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_RGhJB0Ufo << something a bit different but always tasteful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzUsiDlpeA << like it Latin, with a master drummer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teEY4yfmbxQ << his friends are eager to answer the call...Mr. Goldings wrote this funky if derivative piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-CNMqLc1g4 << with one of the more flexible, supple guitarists around--John Scofield
BONUS: a 1+ hour set in NYC, broadcast (I believe) live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8A0V60teBI
* For those looking for gender non-diversity, may I direct your ears and attention to Ms. Trudy Pitts and Ms. Rhoda Scott? And BTW all the above mentioned musicians are well worth your investigation--I didn't want to strew this with q.v.s = which see = great fun to be had in listening to these folks too.
B-3 lesser knowns - jazzboCR - 25-05-2014
Had to add this guy--Larry Young. 40-50 years ago nobody else was doing this...and darn few are even now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbCyNRBhLbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KOJQxXifgo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOdySfMVFeE
Not for every taste and I admit a limited tolerance myself, but it deserves to be heard.
B-3 lesser knowns - Mrrusty1 - 27-05-2014
great Hammond stuff I particularly like Larry youngs take on Monks dream and I love Moanin from akiko tsurga.
The Hammond B3 is one of my alltime favourite instruments and when I get a bigger place I will be purchasing one.
B-3 lesser knowns - jazzboCR - 27-05-2014
Mrrusty1 Wrote:great Hammond stuff I particularly like Larry youngs take on Monks dream and I love Moanin from akiko tsurga.
The Hammond B3 is one of my alltime favourite instruments and when I get a bigger place I will be purchasing one.
I was fortunate to live in a time and place where the B-3 thrived--Philly/Camden, NJ in the '70's. Wonder how many B-3s got junked when those taverns closed down and folks interests moved elsewhere? It's such an "everything" instrument and now that electronics so faithfully replicates the B-3/Leslie sound, achievable in limited spaces. Especially because of Mrrusty1's interest and as archival for myself, I'll be posting more (Jimmy Smith's lesser known pieces, Joey DeFrancesco, The Mighty Burner, etc.) High on my list of projects--hang in for that.
B-3 lesser knowns - SteveO - 27-05-2014
Great organ track!
[video=youtube;WzWUWMC4oPQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzWUWMC4oPQ[/video]
B-3 lesser knowns - Mrrusty1 - 08-06-2014
that's great im always keen to hear some Hammond stuff Jazz or rock its all good
jazzboCR Wrote:I was fortunate to live in a time and place where the B-3 thrived--Philly/Camden, NJ in the '70's. Wonder how many B-3s got junked when those taverns closed down and folks interests moved elsewhere? It's such an "everything" instrument and now that electronics so faithfully replicates the B-3/Leslie sound, achievable in limited spaces. Especially because of Mrrusty1's interest and as archival for myself, I'll be posting more (Jimmy Smith's lesser known pieces, Joey DeFrancesco, The Mighty Burner, etc.) High on my list of projects--hang in for that.
B-3 lesser knowns - SteveO - 08-06-2014
The master...
[video=youtube;vqSLoxwkCYE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqSLoxwkCYE[/video]
B-3 lesser knowns - jazzboCR - 14-06-2014
Mike Finnigan The best rock/R&B organist that few have heard of--a scan of his wiki shows the types of major players he's worked with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Finnigan He's still waiting to get paid for the Electric Ladyland sessions...Great sense of humor. Couple of solo albums and integral to the Phantom Blues band. Pleasant, soulful tenor voice too. He's The Package.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XP3iyUqdI&index=2&list=RDxQteSSBg6vE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdyhZDfFuk&list=RDxQteSSBg6vE&index=3 << That guitar player is worth his own look-up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usw-O8_-tGI&index=4&list=RDxQteSSBg6vE << now here's an ad-hoc super-group for you. Put together in '07 by Mike Post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQKeVFRx0Xo&list=RDxQteSSBg6vE&index=7 << album cut with Etta James
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJhkyVTFqp8 << Ray Charles reputedly like this better than his own version
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZLzNoJ_Mb8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZLzNoJ_Mb8
Want more? He's got 155 vids on YouTube--tear it up!
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B-3 lesser knowns - jazzboCR - 29-10-2014
These are lesser-knowns IN THE US. One is big in Japan, the other was on the first jazz record ever recorded in Poland (1964).
Atsuko Hashimoto Japanese woman who's played with serious US players. The wiki only goes to '08: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsuko_Hashimoto << She became more alive on CD in '11 and later. Here's a review of her '11 offering, Until the Sun Comes Up (hint: thrilled): http://www.allmusic.com/album/until-the-sun-comes-up-mw0002097344
Some cuts she did at a Jazz Organ Fellowship gig:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPzrE7gNTs << she wears gloves or tapes her hand to improve (make seamless) the glissandi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6vbRWCfQQo << not big on the pedals but nonpareil on the drawbars and the keys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTw2Te03cvU << her husband, Yutaka, on guitar << This, folks, is a killer perf by an artist in total control of a tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgn6iIp7uhU << club gig with her working trio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn2IlZD8mi4 << from that '11 disc << see what the fuss is about
Wojciech Karolak At 75, still rockin' the house. Important man in the survival and growth of jazz in Poland/Eastern Europe. Was heavily into synth work q.v. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Karolak Only 1 disc listed and not even rated by AMG--shame on them.
Some tunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDA1P4u9dGo << the essence of making B-3 soul jazz work is good folks to carry you through--reed/brass or guitar or both. Here's an excellent demo of that thesis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eWPL4hnjt8 << when I said reeds, I meant ALL reeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wjH_1GwZIg << From a '73 disc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dY5iK7YmNY << a sorta jam session with Michael Urbaniak on that string thing. Amusing in its own way...
BONUS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDeN0mht7D8 << a 45-minute concert for Polish TV << he's got plenty more concert vids available from the '90's and later
B-3 lesser knowns - jazzboCR - 01-11-2014
Finishing up the sub-genre of lesser knowns: Mel Rhyne and Reuben Wilson
Mr. Rhyne was known mostly as a sideman--though he lead Wes Montgomery's 1st 4 sessions--but later, he was in a boundary-pushing trio with Fareed Haque and Rob Dixon q.v. A good life, a good career, a good man. His discog--slim--9 recordings under his name in 45 years: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/melvin-rhyne-mn0000871623/discography
The tunes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7wP3SGpuHE << with his Criss-Cross Jazz stalwart partners, Peter Bernstein (gtr) and Kenny Washington (skins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xq3EiItzBI << another from that great trio--Commenter # 4 has it just right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CeZ3HbMLvA << a slow-burn ballad that gets under your skin/defenses and stirs stuff up....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMiuFfQStqs << a couple of later things with the Dixon-Rhyne Project--more experimental
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuPKLcq2T9Q
Mr. Wilson is soul-jazz/acid jazz all the way and witness his take on the Beastie Boys: http://www.allmusic.com/album/boogaloo-to-the-beastie-boys-mw0000168721 << they love it
The tunes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRfeFaCHOdU << Marvin Gaye would've appreciated this treatment (he was a jazzman first, forced to accommodate to make a living and get his stuff out)--I sure do *.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra2wiAQYb58 << one of the only B-3 soul-jazz artists signed by Blue Note Records, a traditionalist outfit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3u1AlePmw << look at the side men--high quality all the way a. A showcase on a lovely tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxpw0ZsIWjI << taking it to the funk side in '74
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSK5ejujoJ4 << been there, done that...
* in case you've forgotten: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkzy5clEjxs << He spoke the truth--see hollowed-out Detroit neighborhoods and destroyed jobs/pensions for proof.
ADDED: His 55-year discog as leader and sideman (this skimpy list doesn't begin to cover it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Wilson More on this long-lasting career and man--he's 79 and I believe he still plays out. Also an unfailingly polite gentleman in person.: http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/reubenwilson