Dan Gould Posted November 9, 2003 Report Share Posted November 9, 2003 Well, to answer my own question, it has, but its a combination that really surprises me and I'm wondering if anyone can name a jazz date with both an organist and a violinist. I'll pop back with the one that I found later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soul Stream Posted November 9, 2003 Report Share Posted November 9, 2003 Yes, on the Essence Bongo Bop. Very good violin on, I think, all the tracks along with Joey, Lonnie, Doug Carn and Reuben Wilson. Also, Eddie Louis did an album with violin I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 Not a fan, but didn't Jean-Luc Ponty do some recording along these lines, Dan? I'd love to dig up some weird, forgotten 40's or 50's session with Stuff Smith & an organ... but I doubt if any such session exists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 (edited) Stuff Smith recorded with Sun Ra in 1953 or '54 with Sun Ra playing an electric keyboard called the solovox. It's not an organ (at least it doesn't sound like a conventional organ - more like a crude synthesizer), but it's close enough. You can hear it on Sun Sound Pleasure - Evidence 22014. Edited November 10, 2003 by paul secor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 (edited) Not a jazz date but I have recordings of violin sonatas with organ written by Heinrich Biber in the late 1600s. Great stuff. Edited November 10, 2003 by Chuck Nessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted November 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 Interesting. SS's citation isn't the album I was thinking of. It's Herb Ellis' first full set as a leader since leaving the Concord label (where he had been during 1973-88) finds him in inspired form. The veteran guitarist is heard in a trio with the recently rediscovered organist Mel Rhyne and drummer Jake Hanna plus guest violinist Johnny Frigo and Jay Thomas on tenor and flugelhorn. A fire seemed to have been lit under Ellis for he plays on the well-rounded program with much more passion than he had on most of his later Concord albums. This CD is highlighted by "Just Blue," "Limehouse Blues," "Sugar Hill Stomp," and "Detour Ahead" but all 11 selections are worth hearing. Recommended. -- Scott Yanow I just picked up another Herb Ellis' disc on Justice, Down Home and for the heck of it, checked AMG and saw this one and since I dig Mel Rhyne, I decided to order this one used for $4, and I started to wonder about organ/violin combinations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 Howzabout Sugarcane Harris? Did any of those MPS sides he did have organ? Ponty & Louis recorded together, w/Daniel Humair along, mid-late-60s. Pretty interesting stuff, and available on Dreyfus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 HLP was the name of the trio that reunited Daniel Humair, Eddy Louiss and Jean-Luc Ponty. They recorded two albums that were reissued by Dreyfus couple of years ago. Eddy Louiss also played organ (and piano) on a Jean-Luc Ponty album 'Jazz Long Playing' that was reissued in the Jazz in Paris series. And on a couple of Stephane Grappelli. One of them is the 1972 album 'Satin Doll' on Festival (with Jimmy Gourley on guitar and Kenny Clarke on drums) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonym Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 Open Land by John Abercrombie (ECM) His regular trio including Adam Nussbaum on B3 and the guy on violin - Mark Feldman. Great stuff. IMO a must have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 Howzabout Sugarcane Harris? Did any of those MPS sides he did have organ? Definitely not. Electric pianos, harpsichords, you name it - but no organ. The Herb Ellis is a great - actually the one Herb Ellis disc I like the most, bought for Melvin Rhyne. His second career started with exactly that Ellis session in 1991 - if that's anyone's idea of "recently" ..... I have the Humair/Louiss/Ponty disc, it sure is worth a listen, some of the jazziest playing Ponty ever did. Louiss is in fine form too. And Humair is always great, one of Europe's best jazz drummers, he's played with practically everybody except Rollins and Miles (he said in an interview). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 Howzabout Sugarcane Harris? Did any of those MPS sides he did have organ? Good call! Even if there's no organ on the MPS sides, Sugarcane Harris made a great single, "Soul Motion" (Rush 1002), as part of the Don and Dewey duo, with Dewey Terry on organ. It's a great blues/soul violin with organ record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 Stuff Smith recorded with Sun Ra in 1953 or '54 with Sun Ra playing an electric keyboard called the solovox. It's not an organ (at least it doesn't sound like a conventional organ - more like a crude synthesizer), but it's close enough. You can hear it on Sun Sound Pleasure - Evidence 22014. Oddly enough, the Solovox was made by Hammond. It is indeed a crude, tube based synthesizer but considering it was made in the 40s... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJ Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 That Ponty/Louiss/Humair CD on Dreyfus is a really good one. Unusual combination for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 Stuff Smith recorded with Sun Ra in 1953 or '54 with Sun Ra playing an electric keyboard called the solovox. It's not an organ (at least it doesn't sound like a conventional organ - more like a crude synthesizer), but it's close enough. You can hear it on Sun Sound Pleasure - Evidence 22014. Oddly enough, the Solovox was made by Hammond. It is indeed a crude, tube based synthesizer but considering it was made in the 40s... Wasn't the tone closer to a sine tone? I haven't heard one in years....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted November 12, 2003 Report Share Posted November 12, 2003 Stephane Grappelli JiP disc "Plays Cole Porter" featurs ogan and vioilin to great effect even including a duo track of these two unlikely bed fellows. Good album. Also features Jimmy Gourley, Daniel Humair and Eddy Louis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ariceffron Posted November 12, 2003 Report Share Posted November 12, 2003 tdoiay on the radio--- chick singer, honeysuckle rose, b3 comp w/ violin solo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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