Jazz and the Hammond B

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

For those of you who are real Jimmy Smith fans, Mosiac released both an LP and CD set that included the complete 1957 Blue Note Sessions. These were produced by Alfred Lion, with the famous Rudy Van Gelder as engineer. Accompanying Jimmy was Eddie McFadden, (guitar), Lou Donaldson, Hank Mobley, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd and Art Blakey. No longer in print from Mosiac, keep an eye at EBAY, it is definitely worth snagging if you can find it.