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Brian Auger , is a jazz and rock and roll keyboardist, who has specialized in playing the Hammond organ.A jazz pianist, bandleader, session musician and Hammond B3 player, Auger has played or toured with musician such as Rod Stewart, Tony Williams, Jimi Hendrix, Sonny Boy Williamson, Led Zeppelin, Eric Burdon and others....
William "Count" Basie was an United States Jazz piano, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for almost 50 years....
Carla Bley, n?e Borg, is an United States jazz composer, jazz piano, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Ji...
Andr? Brasseur, is a Belgian keyboard player and organist. Brasseur has released many albums and singles in his own country,but internationally is best known for his double A sided single The Kid/Holiday,which was released on the CBS label in the UK.Though it never reached the UK charts,The Kid became popular in the famous Northe...
James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
Gary Brunotte is an American post-bop jazz piano, jazz organist, arranger, and composer. He was an instructor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1977-1980....
Milt Buckner was an United States jazz piano and organist, originally from St. Louis, Missouri. He was orphaned as a child, but an uncle in Detroit taught him to play....
Mike Carr, born Michael Anthony Carr in South Shields, County Durham, England is a jazz organist, Piano and Vibraphone.Younger brother of trumpeter Ian Carr, with whom he formed the EmCee Five band, he started out playing in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 60s before going on to London in the 70s and appearing regularly at Ronnie Scott'...
Tom Coster is an American keyboardist and composer. Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies through college and a productive five-year stint as a musician in the United States Air Force....
Lenny Dee, born Leonard George DeStoppelaire, was a virtuoso organist who played many styles of music. His record albums were among the most popular of easy listening and space age pop organists of the 1950s through the early 1970s....
William Ballard Doggett was an United States jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his mother, a church pianist, introduced him to music when he was 9 years old....
Larry Goldings is an American jazz pianist, organist, and composer.His father was a classical music enthusiast, and Larry studied classical piano until the age of twelve....
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
Milton "Milt" Herth was an United States jazz organist, known for his work on the Hammond organ in the 1930s, soon after it was invented. Herth's work is available from his recordings of the 1930s and 1940s....
John Hondorp is a professor at the Enschede music school, being the first to teach hammond organ as a fully autonome jazz major.His international class of students come from all over the world to study with him in Enschede....
Keith Jarrett is an United States pianist, composer and jazz icon.His career started with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in both classical music and jazz, as a group leader and a solo performer....
Wojciech Karolak is a notable Hammond B-3 organ player who refers to himself as "an United States jazz and rhythm and blues musician, born by mistake in Middle Europe"....
Bruce Katz is a musician. Since 1996, he has been on the staff at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.His career started playing piano and bass guitar with various bands in Baltimore....
Eddie Landsberg is a Tokyo-based, Philadelphia-born jazz organist, best known for his innovative endeavours into jazz education and his "jazz evangelism", which has involved establishing jazz bandstands and educational clinics around the world, including Eddie's Lounge, his home base and jazz organ bar located in downtown Tokyo....
Ed Lincoln, born Eduardo Lincoln Barbosa de Sab?ia, is a Brazilian musician, composer and arranger known for a wide variety of styles. As a bassist, he was present at the earliest moments of bossa nova and as a Hammond organ player, he was foundational in establishing the sound of Brazilian jazz and space age pop....
James Harrell McGriff was a hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who developed a distinctive style of playing the Hammond B-3 organ....
Anthony John Medeski is an United States jazz Keyboard instrument player and composer. Medeski is a veteran of New York's 1990s avante-garde jazz scene and is known popularly as a member of Medeski Martin & Wood....
John Patton , sometimes nicknamed Big John Patton, was a hard bop and soul jazz organist.After spending time with the Lloyd Price orchestra, he recorded extensively for Blue Note Records, and performed or collaborated with Grant Green, Lou Donaldson, and John Zorn....
File:LuckyPeterson06.jpgLucky Peterson is an United States musician who plays contemporary blues, fusing soul music, Rhythm and blues, gospel music and rock and roll....
Trudy Pitts is a soul jazz keyboardist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is known primarily for her skill with the Hammond B3 organ.She is married to Bill Carney , known to most as Mr....
Roy Powell is a United Kingdom jazz pianist, organist and composer. He first came to wider recognition when his first CD A Big Sky was released in 1994, the Gramophone Jazz Good CD Guide 1997 calling it "extraordinarily accomplished"....
Don Pullen was an American jazz pianist and organist.Don Pullen developed a strikingly individual style. He composed masterworks ranging from blues to bebop and modern jazz....
Merl Saunders , was an United States multi-genre musician who played piano and Keyboard instrument, favoring the Hammond_organ#Console_organs console organ....
Adam Scone is a Hammond Organ player who was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He met Dr. Lonnie Smith as a teenager and started playing the B3. He became known in the Jazz/Funk scene in New York City in the mid-1990s....
Rhoda Scott is an African-American hard bop and soul jazz organist.The daughter of an African Methodist Episcopal Church minister, Scott spent much of her childhood in New Jersey, where she learned to play organ in the churches where her father served....
Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument. In 2005, Jimmy Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honors that the United States bestows upon jazz musicians....
Dr. Lonnie Smith is a jazz musician, recognized as a player of both the Hammond B3 organ and piano. Many consider him the world's top jazz organist....
The James Taylor Quartet are a United Kingdom four-piece jazz funk band who have become renowned for their live performances. They were formed by Hammond organ player James Taylor following the break-up of his former band The Prisoners in the wake of Stiff Records' bankruptcy....
Paul Wagnberg is a Swedish-Norwegian jazz musician, mostly known for his jazz-organ playing. He also sings and plays the piano in addition to composing....
Robert Walter is a keyboard player specializing in instrumental soul jazz on the Hammond B3 organ. He is a founding memberof The Greyboy Allstars, and has since led his own band Robert Walter's 20th Congress....
Roosevelt "Baby Face" Willette was a hard bop and soul-jazz musician most known for playing Hammond organ. It is unclear whether he was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, or New Orleans, Louisiana ...
Klaus Wunderlich was a Germany musician.Wunderlich was born in Chemnitz and died in Engen, Germany from a heart attack.Wunderlich played the Hammond organ during his early career but later switched to Wersi organs with which he created his own electronic sound....
Larry Young Young played with various Rhythm and blues bands in the 1950s before gaining jazz experience with Jimmy Forrest, Lou Donaldson, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley and Tommy Turrentine....
Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrians jazz keyboard instrument and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with elements of Rock music and world music....
