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js
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 5:00pm |
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When I first started getting into jazz B3 players, some older jazz musicians informed me that many of them didn't consider the B3 to be a legitimate jazz instrument; too easy to play, too cheezy sounding, too electronic etc. Many years later and now the B3 is well accepted and has its own classic style of jazz too.
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Abraxas
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Hahaha, good title!!
I'll give it to Larry Young, if just for his surreal playing on Love, Devotion, Surrender album.
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Kazuhiro
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As a result, I go to Jimmy Smith if I choose it among a list. After all I think that it is certain that he is representative of the organist. I like the performance of Larry Goldings personally, too.
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Oh. By the way, there is such a Japanese, too.
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Sean Trane
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Since Larry has got one vote, I'll go for Dr Lonnie Smith
Never really thought of organ (beit the legendary Hammond B3) as a typical jazz instrument, though.
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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Abraxas
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It's interesting that in jazz there are organ players and piano players, that almost exclusively play those. I mean it's not like in rock that you can hear a keyboard player vary the sound from piano to organ to synth to mellotron to wicked sounds back to piano. (not that that makes them a better player) Of course, since the 70s most jazz piano players have touched at least a Rhodes and probably a synth too, but you really don't hear them on organ. And viceversa for the organ players. I'd really find interesting to hear chaps like Larry Young have a hidden piano release.
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js
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Of the people listed up there, John Medeski is probably the only multi-keyboardist.
Joey DeFrancesco will include the occasional piano song on his albums. Edited by js - 12 Oct 2012 at 12:33pm |
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Yeah, you're right. Medeski is a retro-freak! Love his keyboard set, with clavinet, rhodes, hammond, everything is gold in there.
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