Jim Alfredson

Here's hoping someone buys it that has more business sense than John Colbert.

Sorry to hear this. I'll never forget Kevin taking us to Stereo Jack's on our first trip to Boston. Such a groovy place! I bought a couple killer Blue Note organ dates there. Good luck with all your future endeavors, Jack!

Funny thread. I wish I had gone and seen them now, even though in the videos I saw online it sounded like Tony Banks has gotten a bit sloppy in his old-age. Still love the guy, though. Now that Phil can't play drums anymore, it makes me sad I didn't take the opportunity to see them one more time.

Thanks Chuck and Justin. It's a great CD; Gene was still at the top of his game when he passed. I last saw him in May when he and Pattye came to a Janiva Magness show in Pittsburgh. I'm excited about this CD!

There's a new addition to Gene's discography. More information here:

I'm very humbled and honored to be a part of this release on Big O Records. This is Gene Ludwig's final session, a project he wanted to do for a long time. It's a tribute to the wonderful songs of Cole Porter entitled "Love Notes of Cole Porter" and was originally tracked in 2008. Some here may know that Gene passed away this summer suddenly. I've been working with Gene's widow, Pattye, on releasing this album. It's a swinger! Classic Gene Ludwig. It's a record all jazz organ buffs should have in their collection and is the culmination of a 51 year career. I miss Gene. He was a good friend and an inspiration for me. I'm proud to be a part of this, his final recording. It is now available for pre-order on the Big O Store, including the option for a special bonus 45rpm from 1987. Read more here: Gene Ludwig - Love Notes of Cole Porter

Heading to LA today. Shows in Phoenix, Albuquerque, and Taos this weekend. All the details are here: http://www.janivamagness.com

There's so much music in there it's overwhelming. I didn't get it at first. It took one night under headphones, listening for probably the 10th time in as many days for it to finally start revealing itself. Incredible stuff.

February! http://www.janivamagness.com

Never mind, I found them. Not much has changed since the 60s in regard to organ jazz, eh?

Where are the individual ballots?

So fucking deep, man.

Also named one of the Best CDs of 2010 by Jim Wilke's After Hours program, nationally syndicated on over 60 stations in the US and Canada. http://www.jazzafterhours.org/bestcds.html

The Hammond B-3 Lion Roars, Backed by His Pride By BEN RATLIFF Published: December 31, 2010 The organist Dr. Lonnie Smith played with his new big band for the first time on Tuesday night at Jazz Standard, and you know what they say about a big band on its first night: don't go. Hear it after it's settled a little, when its sound untangles, and the arrangements become refined. Give the soloists time to figure out what roles they will play, how to control themselves within the whole. Let a scene develop too: big bands sound best encircled by returning customers. But after only two rehearsals, the 14-piece band, directed by the trombonist Corey King, sounded superfine. What I heard operated on two settings: nasty funk and wine-dark ballads. That was enough. The band runs from tuba to flute, with trumpets, trombones and saxophones in between; it sometimes merges three different low-end lines, from tuba, acoustic bass and Dr. Smith's organ foot-pedals. It's got an aggressive rhythm section, with the drummer Jamire Williams, the bassist Vicente Archer and the guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg, wielding cutting backbeats and shred guitar. More: http://www.nytimes.c...c/01lonnie.html

http://www.planetcanadice.com/Skits/KJOffer.mp3 http://www.planetcanadice.com/Skits/KJOffer.mp3

Thanks, Jim. I can't say the Confirmation warp was intentional and I didn't notice it before, but that's pretty cool! As I was mixing, I kept hearing Stevie Wonder-esque / TONTO Moog string parts, ala "Talking Book". I think it works. I'll check out that other J5 tune, thanks!

Neil reviews the disc: http://www.examiner.com/jazz-music-in-chicago/best-of-the-year-jazz-cds

We had a fun little session in my home studio last Tuesday, recording some songs just for the heck of it. The current plan is to release 4 songs or so as a digital EP, but if we can fit another session in before go back on the road with Janiva Magness, perhaps we'll have enough for a full CD. We'll see. Here's a sample of one of the tunes. Never Can Say Goodbye - organissimo http://www.organissimo.org/pub/mp3s/Never%20Can%20Say%20Goodbye.mp3 This is our formal introduction of our new guitarist, Ralph Tope. Ralph is a former student of Joe's, originally from Detroit. He's also studied under Perry Hughes, who some may know from Bill Heid's great recordings. Perry is a monster player who taught Earl Klugh back in the day. Ralph is finishing up his last semester at Michigan State and we're hoping he sticks around for awhile, though he might take off to NYC in the future. We'll enjoy him while he's here. Randy and I are having a good time playing with him. Anyway, enjoy!

If you crank both tube knobs, it should get pretty dirty. If so, then I think just the LED got burned out. The tube doesn't glow on it's own, again because it's a starved plate design.

Sorry to hear that. The retaining ring should be removed completely when swapping tubes. Is the tube circuit still working? They use little orange LEDs to simulate a tube glow, since they are running the tube as a "starved plate" (ie, not a full 300vdc plate voltage) and it won't glow on it's own like tubes in older Leslie. The LEDs are just for show and don't affect the sound. It's possible one of them is out, but the tube still works. If you fiddle with the tube drive and mode knobs, does it affect the sound?

BTW, I just read through the thread and there is some really ugly, personal stuff in there. I can see where Hans was coming from. But if that's what you guys want this board to be, a bunch of ugly, cloaked personal attacks on each other, then so be it. Have fun.

Why is this in the Mosaic/Boxsets forum? And why does every single moderation action have to be over-analyzed by this group? You guys take it personally when any of your posts are moderated in any way. If you have an issue with something, send me or the other mods a PM before posting yet another "Why was my post blah blah blah". Comparing this place to the Hoffman Forum is absolutely ludicrous. Let's at least try to put things into perspective.

Those damn gays, destroying the sacred institution of marriage... ... oh, wait.

Set both tube drive and tube mode knobs on the 3300 to the 12 o'clock position, put your XK3's master volume at just above 12 o'clock, put the (expression) pedal to the metal (er... wood), and then try both tubes. I think you'll agree that the 12AT7 is not as nasty sounding. It is a lower gain tube, which means there are more degrees of growl and grunge without doing into nasty distortion than a 12AX7. To say it doesn't change the tone is perplexing. I have a lot of different tubes and tried at least a dozen in the 3300 and each sounded different.

Whoa. As a piano tuner and someone very sensitive to pitch, the sample in that article is fucking with my brain. In a good way. On the new electronic CD I'm working on, I have a piece that is loosely similar, due to my own impatience. The Alesis Andromeda analog polysynth takes a good 15 or 20 minutes to warm up and stabilize it's tuning. One night I had an idea I had to get down and didn't want to wait for the Andromeda to warm up, so I just started recording. And because of this, the song starts out quite flat, though at first there's no reference point to let you know that, since it is all Andromeda. But then a little lead line comes in, out of tune. And then a Wurlitzer part, much sharper than even the lead line. And eventually, as the song progresses about 11 minutes or so, the Andromeda is slowly warming up and things are coming into tune, almost like they are coming into focus, slowly. It's extremely hypnotic but subtle.