Tears to my eyes!

[Guest]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Hj32-VHpo

[Pianorak]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Hj32-VHpo

Thanks for posting that, Clive.

Tears of a different kind? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n7BCUVJkhU

[Ian Thumwood]

Clive

Curious to see the link on your Youtube clip as thuis always brings tears of laughter to my eyes:-

[clive heath]

this is massive self-indulgence but how I got to this clip is as follows;
I have some Jimmy Smith, Freddie Roach and Shirley Scott, but feel that I am woefully under-represented in quality hammond organ having loved the incidental groove of Georgie Fame in (e.g.) "Fame at Last" with its non-PC titles "Doin' the Monkey" and "It's Monkey Time" and standout tracks "Point of No Return" and "Moody's Mood for Love", so remembering that Laurie Holloway (Mr M.M.) produced a stunning solo ( OK probably on electric piano!!) on "Teach Me Tonight" I youtubed it unsuccessfully but came up with the clip that brought "tears ...." and another MM & Dud number

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydGpl8k5ALM&feature=plcp

which I hope you will also enjoy. On first arriving in London, I made a beeline to Ronnie Scott's (then in a basement) to hear Johnny (as he then was) Dankworth and his band whose music had penetrated darkest Wiltshire. Interval pianists were IIRC Dave Lee and Dudley (whose bass player was a Humphrey??) and who punned titles e.g. "Pass me the Pimple Knife". ..and.. here we go off on a tangent as I had heard a Granta flimsy (like the Private Eye Christmas giveaways) by Jonathan Miller*, it was a cinch to buy tickets for the first week of "Beyond the Fringe" having some knowledge of two of the 4-man cast!!!
*The Army reports to King George that General Wolfe is Mad, "If so, I order that he bite my other generals"; Miller knocks on the door of G.E.Moore's study "Come in", "I waited awhile to test the validity of this proposition"

So. Any suggestions for Hammond Organ delights???

[kernelbogey]

As a stranger to the jazz boards, and to most jazz, I'd never heard of Marion Montgomery - but what a beautiful voice and style, and a lovely duo with Dudley.

Re your post no 4, Clive, I recently attended An Audience with Jonathan Miller in Southampton. He looks rather different from his appearance in BTF; but still a witty and interesting speaker. ('People ask me if I'm an atheist; I say "Well, I'm a gravitationist".')

[Byas'd Opinion]

Clive,

You might enjoy this programme from a few years back about the Hammond organ in jazz. It features two of the leading present-day players, Dr Lonnie Smith and Joey DeFrancesco: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2cCLOfulU4

If you don't want to sit through the whole half-hour, here's one of the performances from it:

[Ian Thumwood]

This is my favourite organ jazz record:-

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

..ahem, not that i am at all modest but this will shame even me ....back in the 70s when i was attractive to ladies Ms Montgomery singled me out of the audience in the Holland Park concert arena and sang to me ... my sisters wet themselves laughing at my blushing .... of course she sang summat like hey good lookin ..

back to favourite Hammond B exponents

[clive heath]

Thanks for all three clips which I've enjoyed to the extent of adding to Christmas lists, listening now to "Dynasty" which I'd forgotten about. Stan Getz with Eddie Louiss at the console, recorded at Ronnie's, we were there for one of the three nights (produced by someone called George Martin) from which the 2 CDs come. Also; appearing on the You-tube end of track display was "Brown Sugar" from Freddie Roach and Joe Henderson, another great combination on Blue Note and worth a listen if you don't know of Mr Roach.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Those of an age will remember..."Cant Sit Down Pts 1 and 2.", by the Phil Upchurch Combo. HMV 45, 1959. Actually it was by Cornell Mulgrew on organ but he was kicked off to Vietnam. One of Georgie Fame's best stories...

BN.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

And then there's, "Ram, Bunk, Shush", by Bill Doggett...soon cleared the Bobby Vee fans off to the kitchen,,,

BN.

[clive heath]

Billy Connolly on the box now who claims he overtook Peter Ustinov in the talk shows guest seat, hence more "tears in my eyes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYe3_bRxJWA

In the end finding that the Hammond organ selections were prohibitively expensive if indeed available I settled for the Beiderbeck Three Series Boxed Set ( Alan Plater, not Paul Whiteman) but have not given up on the others, time for a visit to Paul, my local LP man.

...........and the original you-tube has been withdrawn by Laurie Holloway but he has replaced it and this link will take you there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS8Va_z-2bA

can this be edited into #1 ?

[John Wright]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Hj32-VHpo

Oh, "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Laurence Holloway"


Edit: oh sorry got the second link now, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS8Va_z-2bA


Stonking mute cornet from Dud!

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes the link has been removed. But it is possible to insert links in edited posts; the problem being that amended messages do not appear as new, but stay where they are, which means that the alteration can easily be missed.

S-A