It's Hammond B3 Organ Day

Well I'm hoping to see CHESTER THOMPSON playing with Santana next week. Gotta love that B3 !!!!

Dennis Chambers on drums - should be a great gig with such greats.

Here is another great groove with some nice organ - The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py ...enjoy.

BTW - I can confirm, live Santana band was a lot better than on CD's - simply put in a live performance they didn't compress the hell out of the drums and backing musicians and jack up the guitar like they do on the CD's.

Dennis Chambers on drums was astonishing. Played 3 hours absolutely perfectly "in the pocket". Never seen a drummer do that - usually on the fills (especially long complex ones) most drummers have a different feel (instead of making the fill part of the music). Dennis nails the groove all the way through and all the time...astonishing.

Chester Thompson was his old self - contorting like a madman over his Hammond and producing more feeling from a keyboard than I have heard in years...

Santana, what can I say, amazing! ...but lengthy guitar solos get tiring after a while even from a maestro.

Cool.

By coincidence, I happened to pick up a second hand copy of "Mutual Respect" for a few bucks not long ago at the local music store for no reason other than it featured the Hammond Organ in a small jazz ensemble recording.

It has been one of my favorite random pickups in the last year or so. Wonderful sound and performance as I recall.

Glad to hear I have some company appreciating this rather obscure recording. I'll have to give it a fresh spin to comment in more detail.

Richard Sinclair does nice and prominent "fuzz" organ work on early albums by talented Canterbury prog rock group "Caravan".

"Land Of Grey and Pink" in particular is a very impressive listen for the lead-organ-starved audiophile.

Try Medeski Martin Wood - Combustication Some great laid back flowing organ stuff coupled with some really funky drumming!