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Dan Fogel
At this same club by the age of 16, Dan was in the house band working with drummer Harvey Mason, and jazz organists Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Gene Ludwig, “Brother” Jack McDuff, Don Patterson, Richard "Groove" Holmes, "Wild" Bill Davis, Doc Bagby, Butch Cornel and "The Mighty Burner" Charles Earland. Dan's recent release 15 West has received rave reviews by New York critic Nat Hentoff and jazz magazines: JazzTimes and JazzImprov. His previous CD release Soul Eyes features Don Patterson's "The Worlds Greatest Organ Drummer", Billy James bringing back the tradition of Larry Young featuring; never before recorded on the organ, tunes such as Woody Shaws, "Beyond All Limits" & "Moontrane". Dan has three organ CD's to date. His debut Something Like That dubbed Dan as being "a powerful solist with grinding soloing", JAZZIZ and "Rymthmic Demon" by JazzTimes, 2006.
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Dan Fogel: 15 West
by Michael P. Gladstone
Dan Fogel fell in love with the sound of the Hammond B-3 organ at a young age by hearing Groove" Holmes' recording of Misty," and has since worked hard to play in the style of the jazz musicians from the golden age of the organ/tenor sax combo.
Whether or not you're an aficionado of the subgenre, it's clear, after a single listen to 15 West, that Fogel has certainly cornered the sound and feel of those days when ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Atlantic City, New Jersey area Hammond B-3 organ master Dan Fogel might not enjoy the notoriety of his peers, but he's been an active leader and participant of the Northeast jazz scene for quite some time. Owing to the Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff schools of the jazz-organ combo setting, Fogel enamors the sound of this traditional format by recording the session in a nineteenth century church. Therefore, the inferences of a typical groove and swing-based organ-combo get an ambient ...
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