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Masters of the Hammond B3

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I think Jimmy is still the baddest esp. with the feet. Google the video of his live performance in Germany. Jimmy could improvise freely using his feet for the bass. Thats really tough. A lot of names can do good footwork but its more memorized than spur of the moment.

Barbara uses midi sampled upright bass for her pedals.

Liked Joeys work with Michael Brecker.
 
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I've previously posted about Bill Mason. He did a jazz/funk funk album in the early 70s called "Gettin' Off" with Rusty Bryant on tenor. He's mainly liturgical now but he plays all the stuff, the manual swapping, the stuttering glissandos, the modern gospel suspended chord voicings, swapping Leslie speeds. If you can't stand the whole 6+ minutes then fast forward to about 4:30 in. He is a master of the Hammond organ. (The Leslie distortion at 5:42 is sublime in IMO).

 
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Fingerbottom said:
Thanks for sharing that! Huge fan of Jimmy Smith here. This album has long had a big influence on me, especially Wilton Felder's bass playing. View attachment 2898575

Her bass pedal solo was great. Don't think I could do that with my ten fingers let alone my two left feet.
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That album is the organ album every bass player should own. And you can never own too many Jimmy Smith albums. Then there's Jack McDuff...

This guy was Smith's(and McGriff's and McDuff's, and all those other guys)hero...
 
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Not a B3 but an interesting performance of Sousa's Stars And Stripes Forever by Cameron Carpenter on the organ at Trinity Church...



So anyway, back in '79 I worked as an E-tech at a music store and I got a call from the largest local venue that the B3 they rented from the store wasn't working properly and to come fix it. Rush job because they had a concert that night. Long story short it was a bad cable to the Leslie so I took it back to the shop to repair. I arrived back at the venue about an hour before show time and went in through the back to the stage (curtain closed), installed the cable, fired it up and tested it using a loud two handed C chord including a couple of pedals. All of a sudden I heard a huge applause. I damn near fell of the bench in surprise. I had forgotten the audience was on the other side of the curtain. Biggest ovation I ever got.
 
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