On Stage Swinging Organ Masters Share
It’s as swinging a pair of sessions as you’ll ever hear, produced as they were broadcast LIVE in KUVO’s Phyllis A. Greer Performance Studio.
For some keyboardists, one row of keys isn’t enough. They need two! And foot pedals! These are organists, and their rich, full palette of sounds have driven jazz combos since before the days of Jimmy Smith.
At KUVO’s Phyllis A. Greer Performance Studio, we arranged to have a classic Hammond B-3 brought in with a Leslie speaker. The results were magical in the hands of the Joey DeFrancesco Trio from 2001, accompanied by Paul Bollenback on guitar and Byron Landham on drums.
Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs, and Beethovens,” Jones told New Orleans Public Radio in 2013.
Musical Beginnings
Clifford Benjamin Brown was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on October 30, 1930, the youngest of eight children in a musical family that included his opera singer sister, Geneva. Brown started on trumpet at the age of 13. “From the earliest time, I can remember it was the trumpet that fascinated me,” Brown told jazz critic Nat Hentoff. “When I was too little to reach it, I would climb up to where it was, and I kept knocking it down.” Get the latest jazz news straight to your inbox!
By Adam Feibel
A pair of filmmakers want to tell the story of Dr. Lonnie Smith and his journey from a childhood doo-wop singer to a Hammond B3 devotee to an NEA Jazz Master.
Emmy-winning Toronto producer Ed Barreveld is calling on jazz fans to help produce a “rough cut” of a documentary about the iconic organist so that it can be shown to potential purchasers and licensees.
Directed by first-time filmmaker Howard Goldstein,
Dr. B3: The Soul of the Music will trace Smith’s life story using archival and contemporary concert footage and interviews with collaborators and fans such as George Benson, Lou Donaldson, Joe Lovano, Joey DeFrancesco, Rudy Van Gelder, Don Was, Paul Shaffer, Iggy Pop and Akiko Tsuruga.