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Adrienne Hindmarsh
Singer and jazz organist Adrienne Hindmarsh is a truly unique talent on today’s music scene. With today’s musicians learning jazz within the classroom, it has become an exception rather than the rule for a musician develop and learn...Alexandre Huber
Originally a student of classical piano playing at the Conservatory of Lausanne, Alexandre Huber developed his preference for jazz and continued his studies with pianist Franois Lindemann. Discovering the formidable use of the organ by...
Andreas Pålsson
Andreas studied percussion at the Malmö College of Music, and he is currently the principal percussionist in the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. Andreas is an autodidact organ player that has emerged on the scandinavian jazz scene during...AriSawkaDoria
A new die has been cast. Arisawkadoria, the newest discovery of groundbreaking label Wax Orchard and the torch bearers of Electronic Improv, have released a debut album that at once exceeds its great expectation, and even the sum of it’s...
Baby Face Willette
There is an air of mystique, an alluring attraction in jazz circles, to those highly talented musicians who shone brilliantly for a short duration, then slipped into obscurity. Jazz organist Baby Face Willette is certainly one of...
Barbara Dennerlein
Born in Munich, Germany, in 1964, Barbara Dennerlein fell in love with the Hammond organ sound at an early age. She was eleven when the first home organ was given to her for Christmas. After only one and a half years of lessons...
Big John Patton
Big John Patton was born July 12, 1935 in Kansas City, Missouri. A self-taught musician, he started playing the piano in 1948 and landed his first big gig touring with R&B sensation Lloyd Price from 1954-1959. Upon his arrival in New...
Bill Doggett
William Ballard Doggett was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, a church pianist, introduced him to music when he was 9 years old. By the time he was 15, he had joined a Philadelphia area combo, playing local theaters and clubs...
Bill Heid
Bill Heid came of age in the crucible that was Pittsburgh in its jazz heyday, hanging out at legendary Hill District clubs like the Hurricane Bar and the Crawford Grill. All the jazz greats regularly played in town back in the...
Brian Auger
For over fifty years, Brian Auger has been a musician’s musician as Hammond B3 innovator, pianist, bandleader, session man and key player in the rise of jazz/rock fusion. Auger has incorporated jazz, early British pop, R&B, soul and rock...
Brian Charette
Grammy nominated Hammond organist, Brian Charette, is a leading voice in modern jazz. He has recorded and performed with Joni Mitchell, Lou Donaldson, The Max Weinberg 7, Chaka Khan, Michael Buble, Rufus Wainwright, and countless others. A...
Brian Ho
When one thinks of the Hammond Organ, one name comes to mind - James Oscar Smith or simply, Jimmy Smith. During the 50s and 60s, he revolutionized the way the organ was played and heard. Nearly all organists of past and present are...Bruce Katz
Bruce Katz occupies a unique space where blues, jazz, rock, soul, and the many aspects of Americana all collide into a style of original instrumental music all his own. He is as comfortable playing "soul-jazz" on the Hammond organ as he is...
Charles Earland
Charles Earland came into his own at the tail end of the great 1960s wave of soul-jazz organists, gaining a large following and much airplay with a series of albums for the the Prestige label. While heavily indebted to Jimmy Smith and...
Charles Kynard
Charles Kynard is an organist whose jazz-funk leanings rival his predecessors and peers, though not eclipsing them. Solid, though never flashy. He also plays electric bass. Kynard's album Reelin' With the Feelin' has been sampled and...Charlie Wood
Charlie Wood is a talented and versatile singer, songwriter and keyboardist whose eclectic musical style ranges from blues to jazz to r&b and all points in between. Born in Memphis, TN in 1967, Charlie studied classical piano from an early...
Chris Hazelton
The first time Chris ever saw a real Hammond B-3 organ was in a dark club in Kansas City, MO called Bobby’s Hangout. After taking an interest in the sound of the instrument on some recordings, Jim Mair (his college professor)...
Clayton Doley
Clayton Doley is Australia's finest Hammond organist and is quickly gaining international recognition as one of the top new players on the world stage. The 2010 release of 'Tension' by Clayton Doley's Organ Donors received glowing reviews...Dan Fogel
Dan Fogel grew up with all the jazz organ greats. From the time he was seven years old shining shoes on the steps of the Club Harlem (across the street from “Grace's Little Belmont”) up until his first appearance with his trio, at the...Darren Heinrich
Darren Heinrich Trio is a classic Hammond Organ combo - Organ/Guitar/Drums. The music’s emphasis is groove, with equal parts tradition and innovation. Original music by Darren forms a significant part of the bands repertoire in...
Delbert Bump
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Don Patterson
Inspired to switch from piano to organ by Jimmy Smith, Don Patterson was one of the Hammond B-3's most bop-rooted players, able to play bluesy soul-jazz grooves or break out of the pocket for some nimble, sharply defined solo lines. Though...
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Dr. Lonnie Smith is internationally known as one of the premier jazz keyboardists in the history of the idiom. A dominant talent and pace-setting proponent of the Hammond B3 Organ and widely recognized and gifted pianist, Lonnie has...Eddie Crocetti
Eddie Crocetti, second cousin, to Dean Martin, began his musical career playing drums and piano at his father's bar in Baltimore, Maryland. At age nine, a band performed in his father's bar and Eddie was drawn into the world of...Eddy Louiss
Eddy Louiss was born Edouard Louise on May 2, 1941 in Paris, France. Born into a musical family, his father was a trumpet player, and he studied several musical instruments, including trumpet and piano. In his early teenage years Louiss...
Eli Sundelson
Born and raised in Berkeley, CA, Eli began his musical career playing piano in the award winning Berkeley High Jazz Ensemble. While still in high school he toured Europe to play the Umbria, Montreux And Vienne Jazz Festivals. During his...
Gary Brunotte
Organist/Pianist Gary Brunotte performs his own brand of lyrical jazz, influenced by the tradition but in his own personal voice. Born and raised in a small town in Minnesota, he remembers, “My uncle played accordion, was self-taught and...
Gary Versace
Since basing himself in New York City in June of 2002, jazz organist, pianist, and accordionist Gary Versace has quickly become one of the busiest and most versatile musicians on the scene, often featured in bands led by musicians such as...
Gene Ludwig
Some say he stole the show that night... the fella from Pittsburgh who showed up late that afternoon, missing the sound check and sort of looking like anyone's junior high math teacher as he strolled around backstage at the 1994 Newark...George Kontrafouris
Giorgos Kontrafouris was born in Athens, Greece in 1967. He studied classical piano at the National Conservatory in Athens. At the age of 16, he turned his interest to jazz music and he followed up jazz improvised lessons with Markos...
Gerard Gibbs
Gerard William Gibbs, born November 16th 1967, has been a lover of Jazz ever since his father introduced him at the tender age of three to the music of the late Jazz organist, Richard "Groove" Holmes. At age seven, when he later...
Greg Lewis
New York native, keyboardist Greg Lewis, a highly accomplished mainstay on the city's jazz, blues and funk scenes, who has earned a solid reputation for his versatile work around town in a vast variety of settings, steps out front for the...Jack Maeby
Jack Maeby grew up in upstate New York, where he began playing music professionally while in high school. At age 19, he signed a recording contract with a St. Louis-based record label. After a few years of touring the South and Midwest...
Jack McDuff
Brother Jack McDuff, was one of the handful of leading exponents of the soul jazz style created on Hammond organ by Jimmy Smith in the late 1950s. The instrument at the heart of the soul jazz style was the Hammond B-3 organ, usually in...
James Taylor Quartet
Emerging from the tragic bankruptcy of Stiff Records, James Taylor, founding member of the infamous group The Prisoners - formed The James Taylor Quartet JTQ's first single, Blow Up, was released on the Re Elect The President (Acid Jazz)...
Jared Gold
Jared Gold's recent emergence as one of New York's most in demand organists comes from years of dedication and respect to the Hammond B-3. With such influences as Larry Young, Jack McDuff, and Don Patterson, a unique philosophy based on...Jason Yates
It might be the rich experience with other artists, it might be personal influences, or it might be an old soul, but in combination, they have led to a new collection of songs from Jason Yates that truly represent his artistic...
Jazzmatic
Jazzmatic is no stranger to Jazz Their music and concerts generate a force of energy that has amazed crowds around the world. Jazzmatic’s style includes driving basslines and funky beats that are thought provocative. This has...
Jermaine Landsberger
Jermaine Landsberger comes from a Sinti family and has made many albums as a jazz pianist under his own name. Originally inspired by the sound of Django Reinhardt, later he focused on modern jazz and developed his own B3 tone in a...
Jimmy McGriff
Organ master Jimmy McGriff may have studied formally at Juilliard and at Philadelphia's Combe College of Music, but there's nothing fancy about his music. It's basic to the bone, always swinging and steeped in blues and gospel. McGriff's...
Jimmy Smith
Born James Oscar Smith in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. Smith was influenced by both gospel and blues. He first achieved prominence in the 1950s where his recordings became popular on jukeboxes before there were commonly used terms to...
Joey DeFrancesco
Joey DeFrancesco has come a long way from All of Me, his recording debut as a leader made in 1989 as a fresh-faced 17-year-old. From the get-go, the Philadelphia native established his credentials with virtuoso technique and an innate...John Mackay
John Mackay wrote his first song at 3 years old, and began piano studies at age 6. He began his professional career at age 18, playing the Hammond B-3 organ in a number of venues, including television and radio. He studied composition and...
Johnny "Hammond" Smith
Johnny "Hammond" Smith was part of the golden age of jazz organ that flourished for about 15 years, beginning in the mid-1950s. His own record label alone, Prestige, boasted such top organists as Shirley Scott, Brother Jack McDuff, Don...
Jon Hammond
Jon began his musical career at age 12 in the San Francisco Bay Area playing organ and accordion in bands and solo engagements, first recording studio dates 1968 when he met Robert Moog who personally delivered the Moog III to San...
Jonathan Brady
Jonathan Brady, originally from Chesapeake Beach, Maryland has been a professional jazz organist and singer since the age of 13. Before relocating to Florida in 1982, he played for President Jimmy Carter's ignauration party at the Staler...
Keith Hollis
Los Angeles and Boston based pianist/organist/composer KEITH HOLLIS LADINSKY has recently toured Europe on Hammond organ backing Grammy Award Winner Solomon Burke . Keith as also recently performed on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Keiths...Kenneth Clarke
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Larry Young
A true innovator on the Hammond B3, Young took a different musical path than any of the other organ masters of his time: Although he started out drawing his major influences from the work of Jimmy Smith and the gospel and blues elements...Leon Kuijpers
Leon Kuipers is an organist from the Netherlands.
Linda Dachtyl
Linda Dachtyl- Hammond B3 organ Linda is a performer, composer, and music instructor at Kenyon College. Her playing experience includes jazz, blues, rock, and classical music genres. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Jazz...
Lonnie Gasperini
Lonnie Gasperini a soulful jazz organist from the state of Rhode Island has recently moved to New York City where he continues to take his passion for organ jazz to another level. Part of his history includes opening for or performing with...
Lonnie Liston Smith
b. Lonnie Liston Smith, Jr., 28th December, 1940 in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. Lonnie Liston Smith is somethimes confused with organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, keyboardist / pianist. Lonnie Liston Smith started out playing...Lucas Brown
Lucas Brown is a performing artist and composer, a graduate of Temple University where he studied Jazz Performance at the Esther Boyer College of Music. He studied there with Terrel Stafford, Bruce Barth, Ed Flanagan, Tom Lawton,...
Lyman Woodard
Lyman Woodard was born March 3rd, 1942 in Owosso, Michigan and started his formal musical training at age four on the piano. In 1962, he attended the Oscar Peterson School of Contemporary Music in Toronto, Canada. After...
Marco Benevento
Marco Benevento is set to release Me Not Me, a new studio album featuring interpretations of songs by artists including My Morning Jacket, Leonard Cohen and Deerhoof. The ten-track collection arrives within a year from release of...
Mark Hamza
Mark Hamza has been playing accordion since he was 8 years old. His father, who played by ear, inspired him to play. As he grew up, he learned European music, then American music. His last teacher gave him a solid foundation in the...Martin K. Petersen
Montreal-based musician Martin K. Petersen was born and raised in Denmark. He started out playing xylophone in the school band and later switched to keyboards. Having no instrument at home, Martin got up and went to school early every...
Matthew Kaminski
Born in Chicago, IL, Matthew Kaminski has been playing the Hammond Organ since he was five years old. Studying under Chicago jazz pianist Gordon James in his teens, Matthew was accepted into the University of Arizona’s jazz studies...
Matthew Whitaker
Matthew Whitaker, a resident of Hackensack NJ, is truly a gifted musician. Matthew’s desire to play music began at 3 years old when his grandfather gave him a small Yamaha keyboard. After banging on it a few times we noticed Matt...
Matthieu Marthouret
This musician, passionate about art in all its guises, an inspired and generous composer, dedicates much of his time to studying the language and the history of music in general, from classical to rock, to folk and more... These...
Mauri Sanchis
SYNOPSIS From 2003, year of release of his first album Less is More, Mauri Sanchis (born in Alcoy, 1974) has been positioned as one of the most well known musicians worldwide in the groove scenario within blues, funk, jazz or sould...
Max Blumentrath
Jazz organist Max Blumentrath, born 1986 in the very west of Germany, graduated from the conservatory of Enschede, the Netherlands in May 2010. From fall 2010 he continues his studies in Dresden, Germany, with Matthias Bätzel. He took...
Melvin Rhyne
Melvin Rhyne was born in Indianapolis in 1936 and started playing the piano shortly thereafter. At 19 years old, Rhyne started playing piano with then-unknown tenor saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk but quickly switched over to the...
Michel Benebig
Michel Benebig was born in Noumea, New Caledonia - South-Pacific in June 27, 1964. Michel started played bass-guitar, accordéon and keyboards in dancing bands at age 11. He studied classical piano from 16 to 26 yers old, at the Noumea...Milan Petrovic
Milan Petrovic was born on September 23, 1976. Since 1993 he is active in Serbian music scene. He is a keyboard player, songwriter and composer. In 1995 he joined popular reggae band - Del Arno Band. With them he recorded albums...
Milt Buckner
A colorful and versatile musician who was comfortable while on the piano, or stretching out on the Hammond organ. Milt Buckner was also quite the character and very much the jovial entertainer. Orphaned as a child, Buckner was taught...
Ondrej Pivec
Ondrej Pivec was born in 1984 in Brno (south Moravia). His first musical studies were in classical piano, at the basic music school. He attended the school for seven years before moving to Prague in 1999. At that time, friend recommended...Organics
Leading Irish Hammond organ trio - Organics have been performing and composing professionally since 1997. For the past 3 years the trio have been the jam-session house band at the Cork International jazz festival and have performed ...
Organissimo
Organist Jim Alfredson and guitarist Joe Gloss originally met at Michigan State University in 1997. Together they co-lead various groups before meeting drummer Randy Marsh in the fall of 2000. His experience and leadership served as the...
Papa John DeFrancesco
On September 12th, 1940, John DeFrancesco was born in Niagara Falls, New York, the son of a remarkable Sicilian-born musician, Joe DeFrancesco, who was a member of the Dorsey Brothers swing band and had the uncanny ability to quickly learn...
Pat Bianchi
Bianchi, a native of Rochester, NY has performed extensively since the age of twelve. His formal studies include classical piano and theory at the preparatory department of The Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY) and earned a Bachelor...Paul Flush
Paul FLUSH was born in Newcastle (in the North of England) and encouraged to study music by his father, a well known violinist. At 16 he left school to work in the country's top nightclubs, and played for many famous performers of the...
Pete Benson
As one of Chicago’s premiere Hammond B3 jazz organists, Pete Benson has been praised by renowned organ greats, Joey DeFrancesco and Chris Foreman. Many will recognize Pete as the organist in the late-night band Sabertooth, a long running...Peter Fast
Peter Fast is perhaps the greatest player you've never heard of. Born in Paterson, NJ. Peter is an accomplished B-3 player as well as guitarist. Funk is his game, and don't let his advanced age or appearance fool you. Peter never gigs or...Radam Schwartz
Radam Schwartz was born and raised in the New York City area. In high school he played saxophone and keyboards in pop and soul bands. After high school he became interested in jazz and made piano his main instrument. He attended Long...
Red Young
Red Young was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Growing up with a classical background and listening to everyone from Van Cliburn (whom he met at age 11), Ray Charles, B.B. King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Ft. Worth natives Delbert McClinton, Ray Sharpe,...
Reuben Wilson
In the late 60s, organist Reuben Wilson began ascending to his current status as a "godfather" of acid-jazz with "On Broadway", the first in a string of albums for Blue Note Records. With these recordings Wilson revealed a command of funk...
Rhoda Scott
The daughter of an AME minister, Scott spent much of her childhood in New Jersey, where she learned to play organ in the churches where her father served. Soon she herself was serving frequently as organist for youth and gospel choirs...
Richard "Groove" Holmes
Richard Arnold "Groove" Holmes, Born Richard Arnold Jackson (Camden, New Jersey) was a jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre. He is best known for his 1965 recording of "Misty," and is considered a precursor of...Rick Allen
Played with Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Etta James, Delaney and Bonnie, Dr. John, Ernie K-Doe and many more. Studio musician in New Orleans. Received Grammy Nomination in 2000, with the Dukes of Dixieland. Currently writing...Rob Whitlock
ROB WHITLOCK In basketball, Rob Whitlock would be known as “the sixth man,” the first player to come off the bench and the one expected to sink key baskets during crunch time. In baseball, he’d be “the utility player” who can...
Robert Walter
The Hammond Organ. Ask anyone who has played one on the club scene and they'll tell you horror stories about jacking the B3 up fire escapes or removing doorframes; not to mention the instrument's sheer weight, alone. No question, the...
Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom
Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom is an irrepressible group mixing jazz, blues, funk, Latin and soul music in a heady brew that really grooves. Multi-instrumentalist Levy, whose resume includes stints with Albert and BB King, Charles Brown, Roomful...
Ron Oswanski
Though Ron Oswanski is one of the most prodigious Hammond B3 players on a jazz scene rife with rising organ talent, he’s just starting to introduce himself as a force in his own right. Also an accomplished accordion player, Oswanski has...Roy Powell
Roy Powell studied piano and avant-garde composition at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester England before defecting to jazz. He first came to prominence in 1994 with his debut recording A Big Sky which was hailed as “a...Scott Giddens
Born in Jacksonville Florida into a very musically diverse family, Giddens’ formative years were immersed in every type of music from the Grand Ole Opry and Gospel to Jazz, Classical, Soul, and Rock and Roll. Scott began playing the...
Shirley Scott
Shirley Scott began playing piano and trumpet in her native Philadelphia. By the mid 1950s, she was playing piano in the city's thriving club scene - often with the very young John Coltrane. A club owner needed her to fill in on organ one...T.C. Pfeiler Prof.
T.C.Pfeiler was born Ewald Pfeiler on Jan.1, 1958 in Salzburg / Austria, the same city where classical music genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 and - forgotten! Later his work was discovered for - big business! T.C. Pfeiler...The Vipers
Singer and jazz organist Adrienne Hindmarsh is a truly unique talent on today’s music scene. With today’s musicians learning jazz within the classroom, it has become an exception rather than the rule for a musician develop and learn...
The Young Lizards
The Young Lizards are a Seattle jazz-collective super-group aimed at taking over the world with their accessible yet complex harmonic grooves. They have transformed the traditional jazz organ quartet by venturing into the rich,...Tom "T-Bone" Stinson
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Background: A native of Minneapolis, MN, I studied extensively and taught with Herbert J. Wigley for over 30 years. Herb Wigley and I were some of the first to teach jazz improvisation for the University of Minnesota at Mac Phail Center. I...
Tommy Pass
Tommy Pass is a Trenton, Nj based veteran B3 player who has primarily been on the Philly scene for much of his musical career. He is most often associated with the Bob Smith Organ Trio but has also freelanced and worked with many of the...
Tony Monaco
One of the greatest honors in a Jazz Musician's life is to be voted in the Downbeat Magazine Critics polls and readers polls. In 2005, Tony was blessed to be a voted in both polls and in January 2006, he was also voted by Jazztimes Readers...
Trudy Pitts
Trudy Pitts with husband Mr. C at the Meiji-En Restaurant A dream gig might be this: three nights each week in a restaurant noted for its warmth, intimacy, musical freedom, and complete support for the artist. Sounds almost too good to...
Vanessa Rodrigues
Vanessa Rodrigues is one of Canada's premier young jazz organists, based in Montreal, Québec. She appears frequently with her own groups and as a side musician at Canadian jazz venues and festivals, and has toured overseas in Europe and...
Vince Seneri
Vince Seneri is one of the most dynamic 'burners' of the Hammond B3 organ on the music scene today. Endorsed by Hammond Suzuki Organ Company USA, he is a new generation B3 player with a class and style all his own. This charismatic...
Vito Di Modugno
Nato a Bari, ha intrapreso giovanissimo gli studi musicali sotto la guida del padre (Pino Di Modugno noto fisarmonicista) studiando pianoforte, organo, basso elettrico e contrabbasso. La sua prima esibizione in pubblico è avvenuta...
Wil Blades
From cookin’ with Blues legend John Lee Hooker, organ summits with B-3 master Dr. Lonnie Smith, television and radio appearances, young Wil Blades is gaining critical acclaim and international recognition. Blades, a native Chicagoan,...
