Jim Alfredson - Hammond organ:
Jim Alfredson (Lansing, MI) comes from a musical family. His father earned a living as a professional musician for many years and encouraged Jim's talents from a very young age. Some of Jim's earliest memories include pulling on the drawbars of his father's Hammond B3 at the age of four.
Jim began writing his own songs at the age of eight on a Yamaha organ. A score of synthesizers and multitrack machines followed until he came full circle at age sixteen and began lusting after the sound of the Hammond organ once again. Jim has immersed himself in the study of the mighty Hammond B3 ever since, dedicated to uncovering new directions within the great tradition of the instrument.
He is also the former organist and musical director of the highly successful, award-winning rhythm & blues band Root Doctor (1999 - 2009).
Jim lives with his beautiful wife Alison in Lansing, MI. Besides practicing, listening, and performing music, Jim enjoys cooking, home improvement, and spending time as stay-at-home dad to his daughters Zora, Stella & Scarlett. Jim is also a piano tuner / technician in the Lansing area.
Jim is a Hammond-Suzuki endorsed artist and plays the new Hammond XK-3 with the full XK System and a Leslie 3300 on most gigs. After years of lugging around a real B3, Jim applauds the new Hammond organs not only as back-savers, but extremely flexable instruments that still retain the classic Hammond tonewheel sound.
In 2009 Jim released a very limited edition solo CD dedicated to the memory of his father called In Memorandom. You can keep up with Jim at his Facebook page.
"...
Jim Alfredson is one of the faces of the new millennium's Jazz renaissance."
~ Hammondbeat, February 2006
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