Jazz and the Hammond B

Love the Hammond B3!! Funkiest sound ever. Check out Shirley Scott's recordings. My favorites "Blue Flames" and "Soul Shouting" both with then husband the great Stanley Turrentine; both on Prestige. Sounds like you're a Jimmy Smith fan. If you don't have it already, "Prayer Meeting" also with Stanley Turrentine on Blue Note is my favorite. Great sound too. In a much more contemporary bag, Larry Goldings is one of the new B3 cats right now. Some of my favorite work of his is on Michael Brecker's "Time Is Of The Essence" on Verve (with Pat Metheny and Elvin Jones!!!)Cheers.

I just picked up the Rudy Van Gelder version of Jimmy Smith's "The Sermon" and it is a must have ($8.99 on sale at Tower!!)

My favorite Hammond player is DAN WALL however....he is part of the ABERCROMBIE trio that has recorded four CD's in the last 10 years or so. All are fabulous if you like modern jazz/fusion featuring Abercrombie's guitar (it's not traditional jazz like with Jimmy Smith). The recording that is amazing is "Tactics" which is a live recording in which the dynamics cause my Bryston 4B-ST to clip more than just occasionally. "Open Land" is outstanding, more traditional sounding, but does not feature Wall that much.

Another fav is John McLaughlin, Elvin Jones!, and the italian guy on organ who is quite amazing... Joey DeFransesco..... entitled "Tribute to Coltrane" (something like that, not sure on title). Joey has an recent album out with Jimmy Smith I believe.

Going from memory here, but I think there is (was?)a gent named Don Patterson who did some really good stuff. I listened to a lot of jazz in my misspent youth, and he was among the best. But you can't beat old Jimmy Smith.

Abstract7,

(Curious moniker that.) Anyway, on my previous post I suggested Don Patterson. Take a look at wwww.800.com and do a search for him. They seem to have at least 6 reissues on CD of his work. I like him a lot, but he may not wind your clock. FWIW.

Well, Jimmy Smith has a new release called "Dotcom Blues" that got a very nice review in the current (April) issue of Stereopiles. You should also listen to Jimmy McGriff's work, and an artist from the 1960's named Larry Young who did an album or two on Bluenote Records. Look at the following link for info about Young:
http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/lyoung.html