To B3 or not 2 B3
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Topic: To B3 or not 2 B3
Posted By: js
Subject: To B3 or not 2 B3
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 5:00pm
| 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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Posted By: Abraxas
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 7:52pm
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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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Posted By: Kazuhiro
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 8:21pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Kazuhiro
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 8:23pm
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Oh. By the way, there is such a Japanese, too.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 3:08am
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.
------------- my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones.... 
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Abraxas wrote:Posted By: Abraxas
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 12:07pm
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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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 12:32pm
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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.
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Posted By: Abraxas
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 12:46pm
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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