Clem asked about this series and I thought we should have a thread. Here’s what came out.

Legends of Acid Jazz series

24167 Boogaloo Joe Jones (Boogaloo Joe/Right on brother)

24168 Rusty Bryant (Night train now/Soul liberation)

24169 Sonny Stitt (Turn it on/Black vibrations)

24170 Idris Muhammad (Black rhythm revolution/Peace & rhythm)

24171 Melvin Sparks (Sparks/Spark plug)

24175 Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers – Best of Pucho & the LSB (bits & pieces)

24176 Bernard Purdie (Purdie good/Shaft)

24177 Johnny “Hammond” Smith (Soul talk/Black feelin')

24178 Don Patterson (Exciting new organ of DP + other trax from session – mainly “Hip cake walk”)

24179 Houston Person (Person to person/The Houston express)

24184 Jack McDuff (Bits & pieces 1965-1969)

24185 Leon Spencer (Sneak preview/Louisiana Slim)

24186 Sonny Phillips (Sure ‘nuff/Black on black)

24187 Richard “Groove” Holmes (The groover/That healin’ feelin’)

24188 Gene Ammons (Black cat/You talk that talk (w Stitt))

24196 Various artists – Hammond heroes (some great stuff in here not issued in the series)

24197 Billy Butler (This is BB/Night life)

24198 Willis Jackson (Blue Gator/Cookin’ sherry)

24199 Red Holloway (The burner/Red soul)

24200 Shirley Scott & Stanley Turrentine (Hip soul/Hip twist)

24208 Trudy Pitts (These blues of mine/Introducing TP (most))

24209 Boogaloo Joe Jones (No way/What it is)

24210 Sonny Stitt/Don Patterson (Funk you DP/Soul electricity SS)

24211 Rusty Bryant (Fire eater/Wild fire)

24212 Various artists – Tenor titans (ditto see 24196)

24218 Willis Jackson (Keep on a blowing/Thunderbird)

24219 Charles Kynard (Afro-disiac/Wa-tu-wa-zui)

24220 Jack McDuff (Brother Jack/Goodnight, it’s time to go)

24221 Houston Person (Truth/Soul dance)

24222 Richard “Groove” Holmes (Spicy/Livin’ soul)

24233 Shirley Scott (Soul sister/Travelin’ light (w K Burrell))

24234 Bill Jennings & Jack McDuff (Enough said/Glide on)

24235 Johnny “Hammond” Smith (Soul flowers/Dirty grape)

24236 Sonny Stitt (Low flame/Shangri-la)

24237 Don Patterson (Four dimensions/(rest of) Hip cake walk + other bits from session)

Related Fantasy twofers

24071 Gene Ammons – Organ combos (Twistin’ the Jug/Angel eyes/Velvet soul)

24118 Gene ammons, Sonny Stitt & Jack McDuff – Soul summit (vols 1 & 2)

24126 Shirley Scott – Workin’/Stompin’

24127 Sonny Stitt/Ervin/Patterson – Soul people (plus bits)

24129 Gene Ammons – The boss is back/Brother jug

24131 Jack McDuff & Kenny Burrell – Crash/Somethin’ slick +1

24133 Richard “Groove” Holmes – Blue Groove (Get up and get it/Soul mist)

24138 Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers – Tough/Saffron & soul

24141 Red Holloway & Jack McDuff – Brother Red (Cookin’ together + extras)

24142 Shirley Scott & Stanley Turrentine – Soul shoutin’/The soul is willing

24147 Jack McDuff – Live/At Jazz Workshop

24149 Don Patterson – Dem New York dues (Opus de don/Oh happy day)

24150 Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis – Streetlights (I only have eyes for you/Trackin’)

24151 Johnny “Hammond” Smith - Talk that talk/Gettin' the message

24161 Willis Jackson – with Pat Martino (Jackson’s action/Live action)

24164 Johnny “Hammond” Smith - That good feelin'/All soul

24165 Sonny Stitt – Night letter/Soul shack (w McDuff)

24240 Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers – Cold shoulder (more bits)

24242 Jack McDuff – Silken soul (more bits & pieces)

24244 Johnny “Hammond” Smith - The soulful blues (Ebb tide/Nasty)

24253 Sonny Stitt & Don Patterson – The boss men/Night crawler + bits)

24254 Willis Jackson – Gravy (Grease & gravy/The good life)

24256 Jack McDuff – The soulful drums/Hot barbecue

24257 Charles Kynard – Soul Brotherhood/Reelin’ with the feelin’

24260 Billy Butler – Night life (Guitar soul/Yesterday, today & tomorrow)

24261 Sonny Stitt – Brothers four/Donnybrook (actually a Don Patterson session)

24265 Willis Jackson – Nuther’n like thuther’n (Boss shoutin’/More gravy

24267 Charles Earland – In concert (Live at the Lighthouse/Kharma)

24268 Eric Kloss – About time (Introducing EK/Love and all that jazz)

24269 Rusty Bryant – For the good times/Until it’s time for you to go

24270 Jack McDuff – The concert McDuff plus other live bits

24273 Willis Jackson – Soul night live/Tell it

24274 Jack McDuff – The last good ‘un (On with it + bits)

24276 Sonny Stitt – Goin’ down slow/So doggone good

24277 Bobby Timmons – The (not quite) Prestige trio sessions (Little barefoot soul/Chun-king)

24281 Gene Ammons - Fine and mellow (Big bad Jug/Got my own)

24282 Johnny “Hammond” Smith - Good 'nuff (The stinger/Willis Jackson cooks with JHS)

24284 Willis Jackson & Jack McDuff – Together again/Together again, again

24289 Shirley Scott – Trio classics vol 1 (Great Scott!/Shirley’s sounds)

24290 Houston Person – Broken windows empty hallways/Sweet buns & barbeque

24291 Johnny “Hammond” Smith - Opus de funk/Stimulation

24292 Richard “Groove” Holmes – Super soul/Soul power

24294 Willis Jackson – After hours (Loose/Soul grabber)

47072 Johnny “Hammond” Smith - Black coffee/Mr Wonderful

47089 Johnny “Hammond” Smith - Open house/A little taste

47098 Wild Bill Moore - Bottom Groove/Wild Bill’s beat

British issues on the Beat Goes Public label (Ace – all deleted since Concord)

CDBGPD040 Funk inc – Funk inc/Chicken lickin’

CDBGPD043 Boogaloo Joe Jones – Snake rhythm rock/Black whip

CDBGPD047 Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers - Heat/Jungle fire

CDBGPD058 Funk inc – Hangin’ out/Superfunk

CDBGPD063 Sonny Phillips – Sure ‘nuff/Black magic

CDBGPD067 Boogaloo Joe Jones – The Mindbender/My fire

CDBGPD093 Charles Earland – Black talk/Black drops

CDBGPD117 Billy Hawks - New genius of the blues/More heavy soul

CDBGPD119 Bobby Timmons – The soul man/Soul food

CDBGPD122 Freddie Roach – The soul book/Mocha motion

And one more essential item, from P-Vine

PCD5621 Rhoda Scott - Hey! Hey! Hey!/Live at the Key Club

I’ve included a lot more stuff, because the Legends of Acid Jazz series was simply a continuation of a programme that Fantasy started in 1977 with the issue of Gene Ammons’ “Organ combos”. And continued after the series had been discontinued. The numbers of the Acid Jazz series slot in nicely, as you see. Acid Jazz was simply a marketing tool used when convenient, then dropped, when it no longer commanded any premium. Fantasy simply rebranded its organ reissue programme – whether or not each individual issue was Acid Jazz (a term which generally refers to jazz albums made under the influence of James Brown’s development of Funk).

I’ve also included 3 Milestone issues, as well as a few non-organ issues, all of which seem relevant to me. Also relevant, and although they’re deleted, copies are bound to be lurking around of the Ace BGP issues (which weren’t issues in the US) that I’ve listed.

It seems to me that it doesn’t matter if you don’t like the funky stuff; this programme was a marvellous achievement for Fantasy in my view (of course, I’m a fan). And it reflects (not without a few gaps, of course) Prestige’s absolute pre-eminence in Soul Jazz.

I’m not going to give y’all a rundown of what’s good here. Suffice it to say that I have every one of these except the Trudy Pitts (and I have one of the LPs).

MG

I’ve tried to do it but it doesn’t work.

Thanks

More soon!

There are so many out there that I need a recommendation.

(12AT7 or 12AX7? ) (Tungsol, GE, etc.)

Anyone?

thanks,

-marty

Bonjour j'ai un "Viscount Legend live" que j'utilise avec une "Leslie 122" via une pédale combo. Je suis assez content mais j'ai écouté le son du "Legend One" qui me semble bien supérieur je crois que c'est le même moteur que le "Legend soul".  Ce que je recherche c'est la meilleure émulation du vibrato chorus à scanner que j'ai sur mon "Vrai Hammond M100". Le vibrato sur le "legend live" est loin d'être bon!  Est-ce que vous pensez  qu'il est meilleur sur le "Legend one"?

Je ne suis pas intéressé par les autres sons du "Legend One" qui me semblent  peu intéressants et pas authentiques à part le son de synthé analogique.

J'ai un" Rhodes Mark 2" à la maison que j'utilise avec un vieux "TWIN Réverb" , c'est inégalable. Le seul clavier qui s'approche un peu du" Rhodes" reste le "Crumar seven" que j'utilise parfois

There seems to be an old thread on organ players playing piano, but I can seem to find any reference to piano players playing organ. Id love to hear of other examples pianists dippin' their toes in the grease bucket and what y'all think about their playing.

As I learned more, I found that many of the organists I liked had roots in music that was pre-Jimmy Smith. And I got interested in this.

Some years back, Clem suggested I put a discography of the jazz organists of this period together. That’s too boring – to do, as well as to read – so I thought I’d write something instead. To start off with, I reread Geoff Alexander’s history of the jazz organ here – http://www.afana.org/jazzorgan.htm

Geoff is pretty shaky on the later period of Soul Jazz organists; he wrote the piece in 1988, at a time when much of the Blue Note catalogue was unavailable and hardly anything had been reissued on CD, so it’s not surprising that many of his judgements lack the perspective that wider listening would have brought. And a fair amount of research work has been done since that time. But it’s a helpful piece.

The organ in the Soul Jazz era begins with R&B, and so do I; though actually, many of the musicians involved in the R&B organ scene were jazz musicians. Most of them had a swing background, and that’s what I’ve covered next.

Thirdly, I’ve dealt with the development of the tenor/organ combo, one of the most significant and enjoyable types of band of the post war period.

Next I’ve looked at the other musicians who developed modern approaches to the jazz organ, independently of Jimmy Smith, and approximately concurrently.

Finally, I’ve looked at a few who probably were familiar with Jimmy Smith’s style but who didn’t want to play that way (or not entirely that way) and relied on Wild Bill Davis for much of their inspiration.

More in subsequent posts later.

MG

I understand this is a digital emulation of the classic tone wheel design? I have some digital emulations of electric pianos, synthesizers and I generally find them sonicaly lacking compared to the analog originals. Some of the newest emulations are pretty decent, but this thing was made in the 1980s so I'm a little skeptical.

There are a few youtube videos of the B3000 in action and it seems to sound pretty good actually. Can some more experienced organists tell me more about this model?

How do I run a Leslie through something else and what should that be ?

Thanks 

Does anyone knowe Is the effects insert on the XK3 is post or pre 11 pin leslie output (not leslie sim)In other words can i insert an effect pedal post signal before it reaches my leslie.so it is mixed into the signal going to my leslie through the 11 pin connector?

This year while at home in lockdown I decided I wanted to make a real stab at learning how to play with my feet.
Because the Roland pedals are short I think I can only play with toes.  I'm getting better at finding notes without looking and
if I'm not too tired am quite accurate as long as it's only a couple of note per bar!  Co-ordinating with hands is trickier,
I find I can play pedal and LH fairly well but add the RH and things start to go wrong...

So, I just wanted to ask folk here if they can recommend any resources that will help me improve my pedal technique?
eg. websites, YT channels, exercises

Thanks,
Paul

I am a lifetime lover of the Hammond B-3 sound, but I myself have never owned an organ. I am a guitar player(mostly jazz) who also plays a bit of piano.

I am seriously looking into getting an organ for my home studio, and I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice.

I'm looking for something portable, and I would like the ability to have two manuals eventually, as well as add a pedalboard.

I've been trying to do some research on Hammond's site, and it seems like the X-k5 is what I'm looking for, in that it can have two manuals and I can attach a pedalboard? Also, it has a larger range of drawbars compared the cheaper Xk-1c.

I'm looking for something with the closest sound to the B-3 as possible, but in a modern, portable package.

Sorry if this is such a newbie question, but what would I be looking at, as far as required purchases? An X-k5(assuming I start with just one manual), a separate pedalboard, a Leslie(or two) and some kind of stand and all the necessary cables?

Thanks for any advice!

I have decided to immerse myself in the organ, and I have a new Hammond SKX that should arrive any day now.

My question is this. Have people noticed their piano playing suffering once they started playing organ? And vice versa.

I think I can go back and forth no problem.

But the thing is, I can't haul my 9 foot baldwin to a BBQ joint or an open mike.

And recently I've got some rodent leaving nut shells inside the baldwin. In that octave right above middle C. Some notes sticking. whatever.

So rather than evict the critter I'm getting a Hammond.

Not a problem when using the organ sounds, but is apparent on all other instruments in solo or combined mode.

Upper manual does not have this problem.

Is there an easy fix, that I can do myself?

Any feedback is very welcome!

I will be transporting the speaker in my SUV and, due to its height and weight, and am pondering loading and laying it on its side.

I am sure they don't advise laying down. Anyone doing that?

How about loading into the tailgate? Do you use a ramp, have help, or have any other solutions.

thanks

-marty

So down here in Australia, tonewheel / clonewheel organs are pretty scarce, but I am considering options since I'm getting tired of trying to make do with a Nord Electro. I had a look at a new B-3, which was actually 3 - 4 years old. Pretty impressive. Much more so (I thought) than the XK-3C I checked out. So can anyone offer a view as to whether I ought to consider importing and converting (220V 50Hz down here) a restored original B3 vs. splurging on a new B-3? I'm just cautious about not being able to locate spare parts etc. (but that probably applies to the new B-3 down here as well).

And also, other than the on-board Leslie sim, is there any compelling reason to go for the Mk2 (new B3)? It's just that with the exchange rate, the Mk2 is quite a bit more expensive.

1, Error message "panel disconnect" comes up - all controls are dead but the organ plays per the sound in use.  Originally a reboot would sometimes fix it but eventually nothing would make it operational again; Replaced main board - happened again today,  

2, At boot up, many times the factory presets will load and not the custom ones I have created - if I tap a preset button it loads the custom ones,  Problem is that all the other custom settings like foot switch control have gone back to factory default also!  grrrrrrrrrrrr

3, Also - if you choose manual mode there is no sound until you move the drawbars for upper, lower and pedals...

Anyone have suggestions?