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Jan 9, 2024 · Jimmy Smith may have reinvented the Hammond B-3, but Blue Note had a deep roster of organists that crossed many different styles. Here are some highlights: Brother Jack McDuff.
Nov 12, 2013 · Larry Goldings explains the appeal of the legendary electric organ, a staple of gospel and soul music.
In the hands of a skilled player, the organ can build to an intensity that reverberates inside a listener’s bones – and when the organist pushes the Leslie speaker’s 40-watt amp into overdrive, that’s when the Hammond’s signature “growl” emerges.
Jan 10, 2024 · Jimmy Smith revolutionised Hammond playing in the 1950s, conjuring bebop basslines by pumping foot pedals, freeing his hands to riff and solo, a driving style that shifted jazz towards Rhythm...
- The Context of Into Somethin’
- The Album Itself
- What Came After Into Somethin’
This change of direction was a result of Young, who hailed from Newark, New Jersey, beginning to fall under the spell of a certain trailblazing tenor saxophonist. His name was John Coltrane and, in late 1964, Trane was fully immersed in his modal period, which would culminate in the iconic album A Love Supreme, recorded in December of that year. Li...
“Tyrone” is the first of four Young compositions on the five-track Into Somethin’; it’s a long, midtempo tune in 6/8 time that is characterized by a fairly laid-back groove. The piece begins with a unison statement of the main theme on sax and organ before Young breaks off to play a solo that gradually builds in intensity. Grant Green follows, disp...
By the time Into Somethin’ came out, in March 1965, Larry Young was working in France. The album’s striking cover photo – depicting Young in a fur hat standing against imposing Brutalist-style architecture – was taken by Francis Wolff during the organist’s time in Paris. When he returned to the US, Young was more deeply into modal jazz and, later t...
Jul 12, 2016 · After a decade-long reign as the populist bridge between the worlds of jazz, gospel, blues, and R&B, the B-3 organ quickly fell out of style in the late 1960s, and Hammond closed for business in 1975.
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Sep 1, 2023 · However, it’s their most famous model – the B3 – that truly epitomises the glory of the Hammond organ. So today, we thought it would be worth exploring the myriad characteristics of the B3, and how these were realised by some of its most legendary proponents.
