groovin organ based soul & jazz

Lots of good suggestions above-I own and would second the recommendations for Smith, McDuff, McGriff and Earland.

Also worth investigating, although tilted a little bit more towards blues, is Bruce Katz.

Booker T.

These are all great suggestions. I would add Sam Yahel (on latest Joshua Redman). Joey D is my fave and I go back to Wild Bill Davis. A Joey D styled B-3er from Ohio is Tony Monaco....very worthy.

Check out the AMG sites Soul Jazz map.I second Spindrifter on Charles Earland a.k.a. 'The Aloghty Burner".Got hip to him as player and producer of young lion tenor players "Alexander The Great" CD the last recording of Earland before his passing.Thing that cought me with this CD was that Earland comped beautifully while pumping at the same time.Too often a B-3 player will wipe eveybody else out while playing but here it was just right.I saw a guy selling some great B-3 player re-issue LP's on ebay under user name wdcdradio.Go to his store site off the ebay page and use AMG again if unfamilliar with some of the names.But for $12.00 I got some great 189 gm re-issue Lp's from this guy.I am sure he has heard evrything he sells (he has a radio show on shortwave hence his user name) and I am sure he could hip you to some of the stuff he has by B-3 players who aren't household names but are very greasy nonetheless.

This got to be such an over-played and over-commodified genre pretty quickly, but the best cuts by the best players still stand up. Most of the important practioners are mentioned above, so I'll just add that one of the main ingredients in the classic 'organ-trio' lineup was the electric guitarist, and Kenny Burrell's work in this format was the undisputed prototype here.