Smith/Blake/Osgood/Provis

Smith/Blake/Osgood/Provis: Hammond Rens

by Michael McCaw
September 5, 2005

During the opening moments of Hammond Rens, you're told that you're in for music that comes from the heart, “not plastic, and over the course of the next two-plus hours you are treated to a freewheeling organ quartet that does anything but pretend. Featuring organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, saxophonist Michael Blake, drummer Kresten Osgood, and percussionist Anders Provis, Hammond Rens is more about feeling the moment and improvising from the physical, rather than the mental.Recorded in March of ...