Jim Alfredson

I got 7/12. Boo.

I think they only offer the New B3 now, which is the mk2. The "old" New B3 (which I guess was the Mk I) is no longer available.

I found this while searching online: http://www.jazzreview.com/quiz/detail-125.html I didn't write it... not sure who did. Some hard ones in there. If anyone misses #7 though, you're banned!

So are the Browns officially even shittier than the Lions?

Gene Ludwig just posted this on FB: It comes with great sadness to inform you of the death of drumming sensation, Mr. Billy James. Mr. William A. James died late Friday night in Philadelphia Pa. Billy James originally from Pittsburgh Pa., was a musical companion to Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Sonny Stitt, Don Patterson, Grant Green, Pat Martino, Eddie Harris, Houston Person & Etta Jones, Bootsey Barnes, Bill Easley, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Gloria Coleman, Dave Braham, Radam Schwartz, Gene Ludwig & Bob Devos of the Groove Organization which he was a part. He has played with many other musicians over the years. He first received his start with Mr. Lionel Hampton when just a very young teenager where he played with him on Congas for a whole summer. As a teenager he sat in with The Clifford Brown, Max Roach Quintet where he made his decision to play drums from that day forward. He was well known for his long association with Sonny Stitt & Don Patterson, which was one the very finest Hard-Bop Hammond B-3 unit of it's time. He is known for his impeccable time keeping and inventative playing style even at very rapid tempo's. The family of Mr. Billy James, would like to thank the International Music Family for playing his music over the years. The arrangements have not been set at this time. More Information will be forwarded to The Associated Press as soon as available. With Love & Musically Yours, Todd B Ellis Jazz Program Director Sound Of The Cool Productions (732) 485-9971

RJ, the poster is asking about this upcoming Wednesday!

That. Is. Awesome.

Oh and yes, Bill Heid is the man.

RJ posts here. I'll alert him to this thread. Cliff Bells has a house organ, the Hammond A102 with a Leslie 122. So Heid, if he is there, will probably play that. An A102 is a B3 with internal speakers. There's another great organ group that plays Cliff Bells now and again (like last night)... can't think of their name though.

Man, I never heard about that issue! Yuk! Can I use this opportunity to state that the Yamaha SY77 my dad and I bought in October of 1991 looks like its brand new on the inside? The outside is a different story since it was gigged hard.

It's that time of year again! See the first post in this thread for some free holiday music!

This is a goodun'! Y'all need to pick it up!

According to the great Gene Ludwig, Billy James passed away yesterday. I don't have any other details at the moment. Billy James was the consummate "organ drummer" and Don Patterson's right hand man. Dang.

Bonham kicked ass. Nobody sounded like him. It's not his fault he inspired a plethora of crappy wannabe's.

Superfly!

That's what happens when you don't pay the bill.

Listened to "Wind & Wuthering" last night while doing dishes. Some fantastic drumming on that record and one of my favorite Genesis songs, "Blood on the Rooftops".

Added another tune to the player on the Big O Store page. Its a tune inspired by Tangerine Dream's seminal album Rubycon (which I listened to many many times under headphones as a kid), called 'Psyche'. http://www.big-o-records.com/zen-cart/inde...;products_id=20 49 copies left.

Phil Collins influence on drumming cannot be understated. As for the Blakey connection, listen to Selling England By The Pound by Genesis. You can tell he listened to a lot of jazz drummers, especially Blakey. His Gretsch kit back then was even tuned like Blakey's. He's a great drummer; it's a shame he can no longer play. He could go between different time signatures and tempo changes with ease while singing. He played with a lot of finesse and came up with some really interesting parts. Not to mention his influence, as Aric has already stated, on HOW drums are recorded and their role in the band. He also pioneered using drum machines to augment a real kit. His first three solo albums are great examples of smart pop (with some cool experimentation in there, especially on the first one). To call him a sucky drummer is ridiculous. You may not like him, but he is a great and influential drummer, certainly my favorite rock drummer of all time. Also, the studio is all-pervasive now. You think jazz drummers don't utilize the studio to help their sound either by certain dynamic processing, digital editing, EQ'ing, etc? C'mon. These kind of apple and oranges comparisons are silly, anyway. Judge the music on its own merits. Jazz isn't the end all be all of music.

Sent the disc off to the duplicators today. Pre-sales are going good; only 50 copies left. This has been a fun project and I'm looking forward to reading folks' reactions when copies are in hand.

The witch has green skin, not blue. But yeah, that movie used to freak me out. Then I saw Alien.

Very cool! Congrats!

Eesh, sounds awful! Hang in there!

Interesting comments from another forum: Never heard of either artist he's referencing, but a quick listen and I can see where he's coming from. The Tavener piece is gorgeous.

For the record, the worst computer I've owned so far has been my wife's macbook that I bought for her. Nothing but trouble with that thing. So Macs are not impervious to hardware issues. The software side of the equation... that's a different story!