Organ Cds That ARE NOT Greazzzzyyyy..

[marcello]

One last thing about Lee Michaels & Frosty:

That drum part was so hip and slick that I think when Frosty was gone.....so was Lee!

[Guest akanalog]

i get POed re: love cry want because it seems to be labelled as "nicholas and gallivan". well in my opinon, it's larry young that makes the date. i mean i guess the other two guys are alive and they can use the cash and attention more than larry young (or jimmy molinari who i guess was not so essential and perhaps was never heard from again). but it seems like larry young gets short shrift in the labelling and recognition department.

[Jazz Kat]

[Soul Stream]

Barry "Frosty" Smith is the drummer for the organ trio I have with guitarist Denny Freeman. He's a bad mutha.

[mikeweil]

No grease here:

But plenty of acid anyway...

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I've somehow never heard of this. AMG gives it a RAVE.

Is it still in print?

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Click here!

[l p]

fats waller, sun ra.

i find it hard to accept most of the blue note 1960's/70's (and other labels - what the people on this board call 'greasy') organ oriented cd's as being jazz. seems more like plain soul music than anything else. played by more competent musicians, but it's rarely jazz.

[Matthew]

Pretty much anything recorded before JOS came onto the scene. Just listened to "The Vice Pres. and the organ playing on that cd is ice rink stuff, and Count Basie was doing some of the playing on it. Does jazz ever owe a dig THANK YOU to Smith for his genius.

[randyhersom]

Would the first disc of the Curtis Amy Mosaic Select qualify? I found the playing enjoyable, blues oriented in keeping with Curtis's style but quite different from the organ style I'm used to hearing.

[A Lark Ascending]

What is this obsession with grease? Y'all work in Kentucky Fried Chicken or what?

Three non-greasy...

Monty Python:

(though even less pleasant fluids come to mind with that picture)

And Keith...

Also this...

More candle wax than grease.

Edited August 28, 2005 by Bev Stapleton

[Jim Alfredson]

How would you like to be the "page turner / organ registration switcher"? I wonder if they get more props in classical circles than just regular page turners. Does one have to attend a special school to learn the art that is page turning and/or organ registration switching?

[A Lark Ascending]

I suspect you might get thrown out of the Organ Players Guild for referring to Messiaen as a page turner!

He probably has a ruler to hand (or being a devout Catholic, one of those whips with knots in it), ready to whack her across the knuckles for every wrong note.

[GregN]

Barry "Frosty" Smith is the drummer for the organ trio I have with guitarist Denny Freeman.  He's a bad mutha.

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Randy "Frosty" Marsh plays with organissimo. He is my favorite on the album...oh wait mixin' threads....sorry.

[Jim Alfredson]

I suspect you might get thrown out of the Organ Players Guild for referring to Messiaen as a page turner!

He probably has a ruler to hand (or being a devout Catholic, one of those whips with knots in it), ready to whack her across the knuckles for every wrong note.

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Sweet! That's what I need! But instead of some old dude, it would be a really hot chick with leather and a whip and ...

... oh wait.... getting a little personal here.

I gotta go now.

[JSngry]

Starting to feel fat?

[mandrill]

Eddy Louis Trios w/Rene Thomas & Kenny Clarke & w/ Ponty & Humair

If you are into classical organ music- try one medieval dude named Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

[AndrewHill]

Good Q. on whether Larry Young is greazzzzy or not, I don't personally find Larry all that greasy on 'Unity', 'Of Love and Peace', or 'Mother Ship'. He seems to be somewhat looser on 'Into Somethin',' but Sam makes sure that there's still an edge on that disk. Have not heard 'Contrasts' or 'Heaven on Earth' so I cannot comment on those, nor am I all too familiar with his Prestige or Arista material. Needless to say, Larry Young is a badazz and I have enjoyed all of the recordings that I have heard him on, in particular, the ones with Grant Green

[mikeweil]

If you are into classical organ music- try one medieval dude named Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

C'mon, Sweelinck was a figure at the end of the Renaissance period until early Baroque!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweelinck

For an organ recital on the verge of modern presentation, try this

Balbastre - it rocks!

[mikeweil]

Good Q. on whether Larry Young is greazzzzy or not

I'd say he was baaad, but not that greazy - not nearly as much as the Turbanator or anybody else. But he was baaad!

(If he would have been more greazy, his two Arista LPs would have made it!)

[sal]

Good Q. on whether Larry Young is greazzzzy or not

I'd say he was baaad, but not that greazy - not nearly as much as the Turbanator or anybody else. But he was baaad!

(If he would have been more greazy, his two Arista LPs would have made it!)

I agree, and like him all the better for it.

[NaturalSoul]

Good Q. on whether Larry Young is greazzzzy or not, I don't personally find Larry all that greasy on 'Unity', 'Of Love and Peace', or 'Mother Ship'. He seems to be somewhat looser on 'Into Somethin',' but Sam makes sure that there's still an edge on that disk. Have not heard 'Contrasts' or 'Heaven on Earth' so I cannot comment on those, nor am I all too familiar with his Prestige or Arista material. Needless to say, Larry Young is a badazz and I have enjoyed all of the recordings that I have heard him on, in particular, the ones with Grant Green

I think 'Groove Street' and 'Testifyin' are extra greeeazy.

[mikeweil]

Yes, he was the greaziest on his early Prestige LPs, but chose to go for sophistication rather than the obvious - that's what makes him unique.

Thinking about it - Don Patterson was a master at matching greaze with sophistication!

[paul secor]

Up again...(after almost 2 years!)

Found this clip of Lee & Frosty.

It's the wrong song title at the top,

but still fun to see the two of them:

Lee Michaels & Frosty

Frosty played with Doug Sahm for a time - mid 80s? - and recorded with him on The Texas Mavericks: Who Are These Maked Men? (New Rose).

[NaturalSoul]

Yes, he was the greaziest on his early Prestige LPs, but chose to go for sophistication rather than the obvious - that's what makes him unique.

Thinking about it - Don Patterson was a master at matching greaze with sophistication!

I'm afraid i don't own 'Young Blues' or the Jimmy Forrest OJC with Young, i assume they're of the greazy sort, right?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Yes, he was the greaziest on his early Prestige LPs, but chose to go for sophistication rather than the obvious - that's what makes him unique.

Thinking about it - Don Patterson was a master at matching greaze with sophistication!

I'm afraid i don't own 'Young Blues' or the Jimmy Forrest OJC with Young, i assume they're of the greazy sort, right?

Yes - I think you need both of those

I have a VERY non-greasy organ record: "Hey Jude" by Jimmy Caravan - Vault 9007. Caravan was a member of Captain Beefheart's band. He tries a few greasy jazz tunes like "Mustang", Nat Adderley's "Cyclops" as well as Trane's "Equinox" and a few soul numbers - "Dock of the bay" & "Walk on by". But he really can't do it. It's an amazingly inept album.

MG

[mikeweil]

Yes, he was the greaziest on his early Prestige LPs, but chose to go for sophistication rather than the obvious - that's what makes him unique.

I'm afraid i don't own 'Young Blues' or the Jimmy Forrest OJC with Young, i assume they're of the greazy sort, right?

Looks like you got four (!) more CDs on your wish list:

Then there is the 2/3 album with Booker Ervin on a Prestige compilation, but that's not an indispensable item: