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Welcome to The Hammond Jazz Inventory. We aspire to be one of the uncommon places on the web with a really large compilation of information about Hammond organ jazz music. To reach that goal we are developing several activities:
Join the contest and win a CD / Have a look at the picture below. Most readers will probably recognize the man on the left. Yes, it's Brother Jack McDuff, responsible for a lot of music this site is all about. He must have been around 55 years old the time this picture was taken but since 2001 he's not with us anymore. The question is: Who is the guy on the right? Hint: he is continuing the jazz organ tradition pretty well nowadays. Send us your answer through our contact page. Make sure to leave a valid email address so we can contact the first person with the right answer for his or her address. The organist on the right will then send a personally signed CD. Ain't that nice.
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The pdf catalogue will be slightly behind the updates on the site but we will publish up to date versions on a regular basis. Download the files and share them with other interested Hammond organ jazz lovers. We think this is a great way to communicate the existence of our knowledge base. Enjoy! Write comment... A new rss feed and other Hammond jazz organ social networking /
Write comment... What's new? / It might well be possible you are visiting The Hammond Jazz Inventory on a regular basis. In fact we have quite a large base of visitors that return to the site 5 times or more. If you belong to that group we can help you figuring out what has changed here since your last visit. Have a look at our what's new page to see the latest changes. Enjoy. Write comment... Jimmy & Wes/Tony & Pat /
The Hammond Jazz Inventory announced this concert and I went to see it. I'm happy I did, let me tell you about it. On the one hand, Tony Monaco & Pat Martino deserve a much larger venue and audience. (Whenever they come back to the Netherlands they ought to play in the Bimhuis). On the other (hand), the intimacy of a small club (150 people there, to the max) with world's top musicians performing with so much energy is an unique experience. Most of the concert was a tribute to the music of Wes Montgomery, who did two recordings with Jimmy Smith of which the first is called Jimmy & Wes, the dynamic duo.
Read more/write comment... 1000 Musicians, welcome James Shipp /
THJI> Hi James JS> Hello. THJI> We have the privilege to congratulate you with the fact you are the 1000th musician in The Hammond Jazz Inventory. Did you know about our site before? JS> Can't say I'd had the pleasure! I was initially confused as to why I was being included in a list of many of my favorite Hammond-centric musicians... I didn't make the Dr. Lonnie connection at all! THJI> Can you tell us something about all those instruments you play and use. Like the cajon and pandeiro? You play a lot of instruments, half of them are focused on rhythm, the other half are tonal, like the vibes. A difficult mix, so it seems. JS> It can be a difficult mix, mostly because of the time required to keep all my different kinds of chops in shape. I like to remind myself that they are all percussion instruments-- I've taken to playing the vibes almost like a set of pitched cowbells or agogo bells at times. The cajon and pandeiro I've just taken up seriously in the last three or four years, (whereas I've been a professional vibes player for almost 10,) but I really enjoy them both, and I do what I can to explore what's possible with them both in and out of their traditional roles and settings. I play a lot of Brazilian grooves on pandeiro, but I also use it for playing Irish music and even some funky stuff. With cajon I must admit I'm not as well versed in traditional Peruvian stuff as I'd like, and I really enjoy playing the flamenco rhythms I know, but I'm not exactly a native speaker in that world either. I like to think about cajon more as a stripped-down drum set. THJI> You know our focus is on organ jazz. You came into the picture because you recorded with Dr. Lonnie Smith, on his latest album "Rise Up!". We have two questions about that. JS> Sure, go ahead. THJI> We have seen quite some concerts of the Doctor and to us it seems he is giving the rhythm section, mostly the drummer, a hard time. Fun, but difficult. JS> Yeah, but they love playing with him. Herlin seemed to have a good time, and I'm pretty sure Allison Miller was way into it as well! It's got to be a good combination of being inspired and transported by Dr. Lonnie and what he's doing and also keeping your head in the game and not getting carried away. He's a real master of causing a great amount of drama and tension and expressing a lot of emotion in his music without being tripped up by it. Those are hard to combine - great passion and energy with control and focus. Lonnie's one of the masters of that, I reckon. I know when I'm an audience member at his shows there's always at least one tune in every set where he builds and builds to the point where I can hardly breathe! THJI> Wouldn't you have rather played the vibes on this album. We only ask this because we like he organ - vibes combination so much. Read more/write comment... Pat Martino & Tony Monaco in The Netherlands. / We don't know about the frequency with which Tony Monaco plays in The Netherlands but our guess is it won't be very high. We are pretty sure that seeing him together in The Netherlands with the legendary Pat Martino is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Well, two in a life time, to be more exact. (The reason we are so focussed on The Netherlands is we live over there).
Friday evening 24 april at 9:00 PM you should be in theatre Paradox in Tilburg. To get the two in a life time experience be in theatre Lantaren - Venster in Rotterdam the next day, at 9:00 PM also. Write comment... Introducing orghammospheres /
Read more/write comment... Our second anniversary /
Read more/write comment... Jazz in SF / End of september 2008 I happened to be in San Francisco, CA for the Oracle Open World conference. Apart from picking up quite some knowledge about the latest database technology I also had some nice jazz experiences in the week the conference lasted.
Read more/write comment... Who's who, part 1 / As you might know we are trying to build a huge Hammond Organ Jazz discography at The Hammond Jazz Inventory. You can access that discography through the "Inventory" menu in the main menu bar or you can search it using the search textbox at the upper right corner of this site. While gathering information for different reason we sometimes run into questions. For example:
Read more/write comment... Site maintenance / This week we have done a little site maintenance. The "Review" menu together with the "Concerts" and "Album" sub-menus have disappeared. The reason being that there was very little activity over there. Due to time and money constraints we don't go to concerts every week. Due to site maintenance and putting together this huge Inventory we don't write an album review every week. The existing concert and album reviews are still there but they have moved to the Blog section of The Hammond Jazz Inventory. Beside this change we have created this new page with very simple instructions on how to create a nice link - optionally with a banner - to The Hammond Jazz Inventory. We hope you will all use that on you website, Myspace page and whatever you have. If you have anything so say, if you are happy or disappointed, turn to us. Write comment... Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special / We know you are perfectly capable of finding video you like on Youtube yourself. But once in a while we can't resist to grab one and remind you of what this site - and now we mean The Hammond Jazz Inventory - is all about. Enjoy! Write comment... Why don't you give us your opinion / Today we added an album rating system to The Hammond Jazz Inventory. Anybody is now able to let us know how he or she values an album. It's really very simple. The following pictures will illustrate the process.
Read more/write comment... A merciless swinger / On 20 october Dr. Lonnie Smith gave a concert in the Amsterdam Bimhuis together with Melvin Sparks and Erik Kalb on drums. I had the pleasure to be there. It was a very special night loaded with energy on which the end of the concert - that ended with an encore - appeared to be only a short break followed by an incredible funky and danceable second set. The dutch organist Herbert Noord was so friendly to send us his review of this remarkable evening which we print hereinafter. Taeke S. Tuinstra Een genadeloze swinger De gangbare programmering in het Amsterdamse Bimhuis jut de gemiddelde concertbezoeker niet echt op tot mee klappen of stampen laat staan tot het uitvoeren van danspasjes. Ook de voorgaande keren dat Hammondorganist Lonnie Smith in de hoofdstad de toonwielen van een B3 liet gieren, gaven geen aanleiding om eens wild te gaan bewegen. Prima muziek maar je kon het rustig tot je laten komen. Maandagavond 20 oktober was van een totaal ander kaliber. Hier werden de liefhebbers van en jazz & swing & Hammond & grof geweld & dynamiek & humor & spanning & sensatie getrakteerd op een achtbaan-rit van ongekende allure. De beer was los in het Bimhuis en wel gedurende bijna drie uur!
De op 3 juli 1942 in Buffalo, New York geboren Lonnie kan bogen op een gigantische loopbaan in de jazz die vele markeringspunten heeft gekend. Op internet is een prettige hoeveelheid informatie over zijn muzikale doen en laten te achterhalen. Een interessant pluspuntje vormde de aanwezigheid van gitarist Melvin Sparks (Houston, 22 maart 1946) een musicus die het samenspelen met een fors aantal organisten op zijn conto kan schrijven en al in de zestiger jaren voor Blue Note platen met Lonnie maakte. Ouwe jongens krentenbrood, die twee dus. De aankondiging meldde 'Trio Dr. Lonnie Smith', dat trio bleek om tien over half negen tot een kwartet te zijn gegroeid met een geweldige Eric Kalb (23 mei 1970 Huntington, New York) achter de drums en een kaalhoofdige tenorsaxofonist waarvan niemand de naam wist en die ik tot op heden niet heb kunnen achterhalen. De ingrediënten voor een fijn avondje tenor-orgelen waren aanwezig. Read more/write comment... (Don't be) Afraid To Groove / It's always a good thing to be able to announce a new Hammond Jazz album. Yesterday we received a message by Raphael Wressnig who released a new one with the only title we know of that starts with parenthesis; (Don't be) Afraid To Groove.
He's becoming quite productive with this second album in 2008. The previous, Cut A Little Deeper On The Funk we really liked. We can't say a sensible word about this one apart from making clear that Raphael never dissappointed us. Write comment... The sound of music / We are very happy to announce yet another improvement to The Hammond Jazz Inventory. As you might have noticed there is a new menu item titled "Music" in the main menu on top of this page. Clicking it will take you to a page with a streaming media player that is playing all the available music samples in the Hammond Jazz Inventory. See the picture below.
It will enable you to discover new music by actual sound instead of factual information. Whenever you hear something you like, click on the little triangle in the circle on the righthand side of the current track to navigate to the detail page of the album this track is coming from. We will continue to add track samples to The Hammond Jazz Inventory and hope you will enjoy this new feature. Write comment... Don’t Try This At Home / Laatst plaatste ik weer een nieuw filmpje onder bovenstaande titel op YouTube. Inmiddels heb ik al 42 clipjes gepubliceerd. Het waarom is zeer simpel. In het afgelopen jaar hebben deze clipjes in totaal al meer dan 22.000 hits mogen incasseren. Dat is meer belangstelling dan ik met een jaar spelen zou hebben gegenereerd. Je bereikt ook oren en ogen die je anders nooit zou hebben bereikt en bovendien ook nog eens grotendeels gerichte luisteraars en kijkers. Dan heb ik het nog niet eens over voordelen als geen files, geen gesleep en bovenal geen gezeur als het niet zo ging als gepland. YouTube is een ideaal medium om je muziek bij een breder publiek bekend te maken. Natuurlijk, financieel is het geen vetpot en word je er beslist niet rijk van. Maar dat werd ik in het verleden ook niet van de bedragen die wij voor een optreden mochten ontvangen. Want 300,– euro per persoon -in het gunstigste geval- lijkt dan wel wat maar als je alle tijd, moeite en reiskosten voor twee uurtjes muziek maken meerekent, dan kom je uit op een uurloon waar de gemiddelde loodgieter niet voor te porren valt. Dit nieuwe clipje 'Don't Try This At Home' vormt een prachtig voorbeeld van wat ik het beste kan omschrijven met de term Instant Composing. Instant Composing is een begrip afkomstig uit de USA of uit Nederland. Hier o.a. gebruikt door Misha Mengelberg en Han Bennink met hun ICP (Instant Composers Pool). Eigenlijk vermoed ik, dat het een lichtelijk dubieus begrip is omdat het mogelijkerwijs te danken is aan het feit dat sommige eigentijdse (lees jaren 70) Amerikaanse musici niet geassocieerd wilden worden met jazz, in hun ogen achterhaalde muziek. Read more/write comment... The Prince's Groove. /
Right now I own two CD's of Vince Seneri, Urban Paradise and Street talk and I really like them. Why? Because Vince Seneri has an organ playing and arranging style that I best can summarize with the statement; "it makes me happy". His style has a quick lightfootedness without handing in quality or in being serious about music which is also emphasized by the quality musicians playing with him. This is why I was very pleased to hear that coming March 10 a new CD of Vince will be released. I am even more delighted that I can listen to it now already. I'm talking about "The Prince's Groove", Vince's first title in which his nickname The Prince - given to him by his fellow musicians - is reflected. This album has some similarities with the two aforementioned CD's. For example, the featured musicians again are all very capable famous experienced artists; Randy Brecker on trumpet and flugelhorn Paul Bollenback on guitar, Dave Valentin on flute, Houston Person playing tenor saxophone, Richie Flores and Gary Fritz doing the percussion work and Buddy Williams hitting the drums. (Why is it drummers are alway mentioned the last, Buddy is not the least). There are also some differences between The Prince's Groove and the previous albums I mentioned. Read more/write comment... Orghammograms even further improved / Orghammograms are keeping me busy. As the content of The Hammond Jazz Inventory grows (right now we have the details of about 200 Hammond jazz recordings) so do the orghammograms. For example, the last time I recomputed the level 4 orghammogram for John Scofield it took almost an hour to create the 3562 x 3029 pixel graphic. (Actually it takes about 5 minutes, but I do it 10 times and then pick the smallest result). Not only does the time to compute orghammograms increase, also the computer screen size needed to look at them grows. 3652 x 3029 pixels is equivalent to 37 x 31 inches or 94 x 80 centimeters. A new way of looking at orghammograms was needed. Read more/write comment... Raphel Wressing's Organic Trio - Manic Organic /
Read more/write comment... Den Helder of all places / I found this text in my files, it's more then a year old. Never told you about this excellent concert, what a shame, it has such a nice picture with it. If people visit Den Helder (Netherlands) it is because they are merely traveling to the island of Texel for a holiday. The city doesn't have a huge positive reputation and it isn't exactly the place where one would expect a top level Hammond jazz concert.
Read more/write comment... 4 Cats / Today a video that isn't undisputed on You Tube. See for yourself. There's a downside to almost everything. Multiple Hammond B-3 on one stage is kind off uncommon. On top of that we didn't know Paul Shaffer and Doug Riley. More research on to be done. Write comment... A mini concert but really great / Every Hammond jazz lover that was in the neighborhood of Eindhoven, The Netherlands last 30 of June should have come to Musifix to experience that days so called mini concert. Mini concerts are organized every last saturday of the month by Sjaak van Oosterhout, the owner of Musifix. The concept is elegant, simple and cute. Sjaak makes room for a concert hall in his giant workshop stashed with Hammond organs and parts (see picture),
sells really cheap tickets (5 Euro) and pours some coffee, tea and soft drinks. The revenue will go to the artists. These days artists where Rob Mostert on Hammond B-3, Bert Schipper on drums, Trinus de Vries on tenor sax together with singer Lils Mackintosh performed. Read more/write comment... Orghammograms improved / We are happy to announce that our famous orghammograms are improved and are now more tightly integrated as a browsing aid in The Hammond Jazz Inventory. To start, orghammograms are now more easily accessible from the starting profile section on every musician detail page. Orghammograms used to open in a new window thus separating you from the rest of The Hammond Jazz Inventory. Now they open in the same window and have a menu with command buttons above them that enable you to navigate through the site. It's very easy now to go to the musicians detail page from an orghammogram. See the picture.
Also, if available, an orghammogram with another level of the same musician can be requested "in place". You can read more about more about orghammograns here or you might want to try a level 2 orghammograms for Tony Monaco and Larry Goldings or a level 1 orghammogram for George Benson to take a random pick. Remember that through the browse menu a thousands of orghammograms can be found. Write comment... 100 albums milestone reached, still growing /
As you might know, everything we publish has a relation to the combination of Hammond (organ) and Jazz. The way Hot Dog made its way in to The Hammond Jazz Inventory is because of Charles Earland, the organist on Hot Dog. As always we listed all the musicians playing and all the songs on the album. As we add albums to the inventory the Orghammograms for the related musicians get increasingly complex. Check out the orghammogram for Lee Morris who is the drummer on Hot Dog and discover how he is related to other musicians. Write comment... De wolharige mammoet is ook verdwenen / Rasechte optimisten vertellen mij vaak, dat eens het moment komt dat de jazz weer triomfen zal vieren. Dat de jeugd plotseling tot de conclusie komt dat er nog meer muziek is buiten opgefokte hiphoppers en in hun jeugd gemaltraiteerde dj's. Die rasechte optimisten zijn daarvan overtuigd maar hun overtuiging is niet de mijne. Ook brengen ze vaak te berde, dat door beluistering van bijvoorbeeld de wanproducten van dj's St. Germain of Maestro de geïnteresseerde luisteraar toch op zoek gaat naar de oorspronkelijke bron. Hij of zij hoort Grant Green met een fijn St. Germain beat-je erachter en dan is de drang om naar het origineel op zoek te gaan plotseling gewekt. Ik geloof daar niet in. Read more/write comment... Uit de prive collectie: Joey DeFrancesco / Het was 30 april dit jaar dat Joey DeFrancesco een optreden gaf in het Bimhuis in Amsterdam. Hierbij enkele kwaliteitsfoto's van Joey DeFrancesco die tijdens de toegift van het concert zijn Hammond B-3 bestijgt.
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Site updates Below you see the 10 latest updates to The Hammond Jazz Inventory. Visit the what's new page to see all updates
 Joey DeFrancesco - One Take
 John Abercrombie - Tactics  Wayne Horvitz  Mauri Sanchis - Less Is More  Jack McDuff  Bruno Erminero Trio - Listen To My Soul  Gloria Coleman Quartet - Soul Sisters  Bennie Veldman  Black B-3  Raphael Wressnig |
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