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Album focus

Dr. Lonnie Smith quote
I really was thinking Jimmy Smith but it just always came out different


Big John Patton - Oh Baby

Jack McDuff quote
Some people are messin’ with the drawbars so much they don’t get any playin’ done.


Jimmy McGriff - City Lights

Dr. Lonnie Smith quote
I really was thinking Jimmy Smith but it just always came out different


Libor Šmoldas Trio - On The Playground


Greg Skaff - Blues For Mr. T


Jimmy Smith - Confirmation


Mort Weiss - The B-3 And Me


Bobby Pierce - Introducing Bobby Pierce


Brother Jack McDuff - Who Knows What Tomorrow's Gonna Bring?


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A new web interface


After some work in the previous weeks, today we released a new web interface for The Hammond Jazz Inventory website. You are looking at it right now. If you didn't notice we reached our goal. Compared to the previous interface we hope for the following improvements:

  • More focus on the core of The Hammond Jazz Inventory website: jazz organists and their recordings. We believe that the new organists page will help us to reach that goal. We currenlty list 61 organists but this number will grow rapidly in the near future

  • An improved ability for visiters to find what they are looking for. The aforementioned organists page will help but also the posibilities to browse the contents of our inventory have been improved considerable.We hope we removed the diffucult parts some people reported about this page. If things are still unclear, please let us know here.

  • A quieter more balanced layout with fewer distracting interface elements. Fewer, not quite none. One of the design goals is to offer pretty structured information in a playful way.

  • A renewed and polished motivation a to add content to the site on a more regular basis then we have done in the last half year. The more you visit us the more this motivation will be kept fresh.


We hope you also think the new interface is an improvement.

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Rob Mostert: A new album in the making (Dutch)

Rob Mostert gaat de 2e week van februari samen met zijn Hammond Group naar Englewood Cliffs (New Jersey, USA) om bij de legendarische jazzproducer Rudy Van Gelder zijn nieuwe album op te nemen. Tijdens de opname speelt Rob op de al even legendarische Hammond C-3 van Jimmy Smith. Rudy Van Gelder stond aan de wieg van het bekende BlueNote label en was de producer van vele grote namen als o.a. Jimmy Smith, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter en Thelonius Monk. Rudy is inmiddels 85 jaar en werkt nog iedere dag 5 uur in zijn studio en maakt vandaag de dag nog steeds de meest geweldige jazz opnames. Van 15 t/m 19 februari zit Rob met zijn Hammond Group in de bekendste jazz studio ooit. Als special guest speelt de Amerikaanse saxofonist Houston Person mee op dit album.

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Young organ jazz breed: Arnaud Vilquin

One of the first articles I wrote in October 2006 for The Hammond Jazz Inventory website, that was actually called The Hammond Jazz Scrapbook Portal at that time, was about an organ jazz festival in Cologne where young organ jazz talents could showcase their arts for a jury consisting of professional jazz organists. Since then I have never seen really young people behind the console. That's no good. People tend to think jazz is for old folks, especially if that jazz is organ jazz.

So I was very happy to have a near relative of Arnaud Vilquin drawing my attention to this young Hammond organ jazz talent from Paris. Arnaud is being educated by Stefan Patry and Oscar Marchioni but - as the Youtube movies will illustrate - he's also very eager to get into real live experience. Enjoy this youthful enthusiasm.



And there is more:

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Happy anticipation

29 December we'll be in "Het Bimhuis" to see these guys. In happy anticipation we want to share this with you: Carlo de Wijs & Benjamin Herman.



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A fine sampler #1

We avoid samplers in our inventory because most of the tracks on them can be found on original albums which are - most of the time - already in The Hammond Jazz Inventory. As such, samplers don't carry any added value. We will keep them out of the inventory but why not mention them in our Blog? Really no reason not to, it's Hammond organ jazz after all. Here's #1:



1. Please Mr Jackson - Jack McDuff
2. Takin' Care Of Business - Shirley Scott
3. Smooth Sailing - Arnett Cobb featuring Austin Mitchell
4. Sticks and Stones - Johnny "Hammond" Smith
5. Remember - Jimmy Forrest featuring Larry Young
6. Twistin' the Jug - Gene Ammons featuring Jack McDuff
7. Crib Theme - Red Holloway featuring John Patton
8. Rock Candy - Jack McDuff
9. Pool Shark - Willis Jackson featuring Carl Wilson
10. Donald Duck - Don Patterson
11. Misty - Richard "Groove" Holmes
12. One Track Mind - Freddie Roach
13. Take Five - Trudy Pitts

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Oscar Marchioni - Vibrato & Chorus


The complete address is:
362, corso SS. Felice e Fortunato
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Italy

Oscar Marchioni - Kicca & Intrigo


Kicca au chant
Oscar Marchioni à l'orgue
Hervé Samb à la guitar
Salah Khaili à la batterie


Another contest, no prizes.

Through one of our readers we received this question: do you know the title and / or interpreter of the music in this sample (will open in a new window). We don't know, can you help us? If so, please leave a comment or send us a message through our contact page. Thank you.

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Join the contest and win a CD (contest closed)

On the first of july 2009 we wrote the article below. By now, we have a winner. Patsy wrote us: YES, I DO KNOW THE NAME OF THE ARTIST, ITS VINCENT SINERI THE BADDEST CAT ON THE HAMMOND ORGAN. Sorry guys, contest is closed.

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.

Tell us the name of the organist on the right. The first person with the right answer will win a personally signed CD.


Download The Hammond Jazz Inventory

A new menu
We have decided to publish the contents of The Hammond Jazz Inventory musician, band, album and song database in a pdf catalogue you can download for your convenience. Refer to the Inventory download page for details.

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!


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A new rss feed and other Hammond jazz organ social networking

We used to have two separate rss feeds; one for new articles and another one for updates on musicians, band, albums and songs. We merged the two feeds into a single new one that looks better, has less errors and bugs and is also available on Feedburner if you like that. Subscribe to our new rss feed and you will always be up to date whenever something changes on the site. We recommend subscribing to the feed through Feedburner because that way you can add it to Yahoo, Google etcetera. And we can keep track of the usage. From now on, the older feeds are deprecated. The world keeps changing, so do we.

There are more ways to stay in contact with us. Since a few weeks we tweet on Twitter. A selection of the updates on The Hammond Jazz Inventory also end up as tweets on Twitter and once in a while we tweet a random thought. Twip. If you or someone you know - or even a Hammond organ jazz related band - uses Twitter for Hammond organ jazz related tweets, let us know on our contact page and we will start following it. In the mean time, click the icon and start following us.

Did we ever tell you we are on Myspace. We are. Whether you like it or not, Myspace is a great place to meet soul mates. We already have 250+ friends and some of them play really good Hammond organ jazz, or other music, or other instruments, or no usic and instrument at all. Seriously, on Myspace it's a bit harder to keep the topics strictly organ jazz related, but once in a while we do real valuable discoveries over there. Click the icon and join us as a friend on Myspace.

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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.

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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.



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1000 Musicians, welcome James Shipp

You know these publicity stunts in museums, supermarkets and gas stations. When visitor number x comes by he or she gets coverage in the local newspaper, a photo and a gift, sometimes two or three. Now and then we add a new album to The Hammond Jazz Inventory and all those musicians come by. The other day we added the album "Rise Up!" by Dr. Lonnie Smith and here he was, musician number 1000. It was James Shipp!! We took a photograph (from his myspace page) and promised coverage in The Hammond Jazz Inventory. No gifts, our budget is very limited, but a great chance to have a chat.




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.

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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.

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