Jazz and the Hammond B

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.

There's absolutely no doubt about the importance of Jimmy Smith. The Master. Before him, I recommend Wild Bill Davis (not Davison, who was a great cornet player) who knew how to "orchestrate" the sound of a B3. He's the guy who did the orginal arrangement of "April in Paris" that Basie copped. I finally found some Wild Bill from the 70s.."Impulsions" on Black and Blue and "All Right, OK, You win" on same label. This style of playing is also one of the reasons I like Joey DeFrancesco. He can also do the scrabblin' thing. Check out two of my favs..."Goodfellas" on Concord and "All or Nothing At All" on Big Mo. Wall and Goldings are also great. A little more on the 'purist' side rather than the 'fun' side. Just my 2 cents, of course.

Absract7, Get some Jimmy McGriff. He does a lot of stuff with Hank Crawford and David "Fathead" Newman. My personnal favorite is titled " Blues Groove" Telarc Jazz.

Thanks for the suggestions. I have more Hammond B stuff on order now than I currently own (great--now I have to find the time to listen to it). In particular--thank you Albert for making me salivate over something that is out of print: "I hate it when that happens" --I'll be looking on e-bay.