The premier issue of B3 Player hit the internet with a bang. Thanks to all the B3 aficionados
out there who have purchased either a single issue eSubscription or an annual
eSubscription, we have gotten off to a great start!
So, get ready for the most complete NAMM coverage for organ and organ related
products ever! I was at NAMM 2006 for two complete days, Friday
and Saturday, and spent all that time with interviewing vendors, players and testing out the
new organ products.
This Red Young riff is characterized by chord triads instead of single notes or double stops.
The simple dominant seventh, suspended fourth chords, provide a jazzy complex sound that
provides a nice break from speedy single note solos.
Here Red Young shows a type of riff that is unique to the organ, the “sputter”. The
technique is basically a trill (rapid alternating between two notes usually a minor third
apart) on one note.
Here Red Young brings out a chord riff that has that familiar jazz dissonance that a soloist
can bring out during a flurry of scale notes to add tension to a solo.
By now, many of you have heard of toe tapping, pedal thumps, pedal bombs, or, as Jack
McDuff liked to call it, “just patting your foot.” In this article, Scott Hawthorn will explain this technique in
depth-- the one that's used by most modern jazz organists to give life and attack to lefthand
bass.
We continue our Comping Basics series again with some examples and theory that we
hope will inspire players of all levels. All of our examples in part 2 will be variations on the
Mixolydian three-note triad chords and four-note seventh chords. First, we delve into the triads.
In this example we will use the Mixolydian Seventh chords to comp over a rock blues in G
using a straight eights bass pattern (no swinging, just driving of the beat).
Red Young is a true “B3 Journeyman”. He is a
journeyman in a geographically sense in that
he has resided on both U.S. coasts and toured
all over the U.S. and Europe with some of the biggest names in the music business. Red is
also a journeyman in that he has been called on to play many styles including jazz, blues,
rock and even gospel.
Late September was set as the time that Tony Monaco was going to record his next CD, “East to
West”. During the recording session Murphy's Law reared his ugly head and here is what happened and what Tony did about it.
But, whether you are the new kid on the block or an industry mainstay there is always room
for improvement. However, Native Instruments chose not to make a small or incremental
improvement to the B4 but rather took a giant step in their upgrade to the B4 II.
If William Andrew Hammond, Laurens Hammond’s father, had not jumped into the icy waters of Lake Michigan in 1887 after being implicated in a banking fraud with the Illinois National Bank, there is a good chance that Hammond never would have become an inventor or engineer and there would not have been the Hammond organ.
