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List Of Jazz Organists
This is an alphabetized list of notable musicians who play or played jazz organ. Category is listed as: . __NOTOC__ A * Tihomir Pop Asanović, Tihomir "Pop" Asanović * Brian Auger * Price Alan B * Count Basie * Pat Bianchi * Judy Blair * Carla Bley * André Brasseur * Gary Brunotte * Milt Buckner C * Doug Carn * Mike Carr (musician), Mike Carr * Brian Charette * Ray Charles * Clifton "Jiggs" Chase * Call Cobbs Jr. * Alice Coltrane * Tom Coster D * Jackie Davis * Wild Bill Davis * Lenny Dee (organist), Lenny Dee * Joey DeFrancesco * John DeFrancesco, 'Papa' John DeFrancesco (born 1940) * Barbara Dennerlein * Bill Doggett * Dr. John E * Charles Earland F * Georgie Fame * Clare Fischer * Dan Fogel (musician), Dan Fogel * Chris Foreman (organist), Chris Foreman G * Jared Gold (organist), Jared Gold * Larry Goldings H * Atsuko Hashimoto * Herbie Hancock * Alan Haven * Cory Henry * Milt Herth * Ingfried Hoffmann * Richard Holmes (organist), Richard "Groove" Holmes * John Hondorp * Wayn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tihomir Pop Asanović
Tihomir "Pop" Asanović (born 16 November 1948) is a Croatian jazz-rock and Jazz fusion, fusion keyboardist, Hammond organ player and composer. Asanović is a keyboardist who has played in 1970s and in early 1980s in various SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslavian musical line-ups and toured with them around the world. On the 1973 tour with Boško Petrović (musician), Boško Petrović in East Berlin, he was proclaimed as being the fourth best jazz organist in Europe. Career Asanović has finished musical high school in Skopje. With 16 years he started to perform with big dancing orchestra of RTV Skopje. When he was 18 years old, he relocated to Germany, where he performed one year with the band Montenegro Five, then he joined the band The Generals (Yugoslavian band), The Generals and toured with them through Switzerland, where Janez Bončina also joined the band. In the year 1971 he returned to homeland with the band The Generals, where the band performed on ''Adriatic Show'', which was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Coster
Tom Coster (born August 21, 1941) is an American keyboardist, composer, and longtime backing musician for Carlos Santana. Early years Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies through college and a productive five-year stint as a musician in the United States Air Force, U.S. Air Force Band. Career Coster has played with and/or composed for many groups and musicians including The Loading Zone, Gábor Szabó, Carlos Santana, Billy Cobham, Third Eye Blind, Larry Coryell, Coryell/Coster/Steve Smith (musician), Smith, Claudio Baglioni, Stu Hamm, Boz Scaggs, Zucchero and Bobby Holiday, Joe Satriani, Frank Gambale, and Vital Information. Coster also produced several solo jazz fusion recordings as a leader for Fantasy, Headfirst, and JVC. Some of Coster's best-known compositions are "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)", "Flor D'Luna (Moonflower)" and "Dance, Sister, Dance (''Baila Mi Hermana'')" performed by Santana an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jared Gold (organist)
Jared Gold is an American jazz organist who plays the Hammond B-3 organ. He attended William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. In 1988 he won the Governor's Award for Jazz Performance in New Jersey. He has worked with Ralph Bowen, Benny Golson, Bill Goodwin, Bob Mintzer, Ralph Peterson Jr., Benny Powell, John Swana, and John Webber. Gold has been influenced by Larry Young, Jack McDuff, and Don Patterson. In 2004, guitarist Dave Stryker included Gold in his trio with drummer Tony Reedus. Gold appeared at Chez Hanny in 2005 with the Dan Pratt Organ Quartet, and in 2007 he toured the UK with the Randy Napoleon Trio. He recorded his first solo album, ''Solids & Stripes'' ( Posi-Tone, 2008) with Randy Napoleon on guitar, Seamus Blake on tenor saxophone, and Mark Ferber on drums. Gold appears on two albums with Napoleon and drummer Quincy Davis. These are '' Enjoy the Moment'' and '' Randy Napoleon: Between Friends''. The first is a collaboration between Gold and Nap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Foreman (organist)
Chris Foreman is a Chicago-based organist and pianist. He has recorded with the Deep Blue Organ Trio and the Kimberly Gordon Trio, and appears in the BT Productions video "Funk on the B-3". Foreman appears regularly at the Green Mill. In 2015, he released a CD, "Now is the Time". Discography As leader * ''Now is the Time'', (The Sirens, 2015) With Deep Blue Organ Trio * ''Deep Blue Bruise'' ( Delmark, 2004) * ''Goin' to Town: Live at the Green Mill'' (Delmark, 2005 006 Alec Trevelyan is a fictional character who is the main antagonist in the 1995 James Bond film ''GoldenEye,'' portrayed by actor Sean Bean. Bean's likeness was also used as the model for Alec Trevelyan in the 1997 video game '' GoldenEye 007' ... * ''Folk Music'' ( Origin, 2007) * ''Wonderful!'' (Origin, 2011) With Kimberly Gordon * ''Melancholy Serenade'' (The Sirens, 2004) * ''Sunday'' (The Sirens, 2011) With Red Holloway * ''Go Red Go!'' (Delmark, 2008 009 With Soul Message Band * ''Soulful Days ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Fogel (musician)
Dan Fogel is an American jazz organist playing the Hammond B-3 organ. Biography Jazz organist Dan Fogel was born June 21, 1948, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Fogel purchased his first organ by age 11. At age 13 he began playing in nightclubs in Atlantic City. Fogel has worked with Pat Martino, Odean Pope, Billy James, Sunny Murray, Cecil Payne, Tony Ventura, Rufus Harley, Monnette Sudler, Harvey Mason, O'Donel Levy, and Bootsie Barnes. In 2012 ''Down Beat'' magazine critics voted Fogel a Rising Star on the Hammond B-3 The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created ... organ. He died on August 11, 2021. Discography References External links www.danfogel.orgDan Fogel on YouTube* Dan Fogel on AllMusic {{DEFAULTSORT:Fogel, Dan American jazz organists American mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Fischer
Douglas Clare Fischer (October 22, 1928 – January 26, 2012) was an American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. After graduating from Michigan State University (from which, five decades later, he would receive an honorary doctorate), he became the pianist and arranger for the vocal group the Hi-Lo's in the late 1950s. Fischer went on to work with Donald Byrd and Dizzy Gillespie, and became known for his Latin and bossa nova recordings in the 1960s. He composed the Latin jazz standard "Morning", and the jazz standard " Pensativa". Consistently cited by jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock as a major influence ("I wouldn't be me without Clare Fischer"Hancock, Herbie; as told to Michael J. West"Herbie Hancock Remembers Clare Fischer" ''JazzTimes''. April 5, 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-24.), he was nominated for eleven Grammy Awards during his lifetime, winning for his landmark album, '' 2+2'' (1981), the first of Fischer's records to incorporate the vocal ensemble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell; 26 June 1943) is an English R&B and jazz musician. Fame, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still performing, often working with contemporaries such as Alan Price, Van Morrison and Bill Wyman. Fame is the only British music act to have achieved three UK No. 1 hits with his only top 10 chart entries: "Yeh, Yeh" in 1964, "Get Away (Georgie Fame song), Get Away" in 1966 and "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" in 1968. Biography Early life Powell was born at 1 Cotton Street, Leigh, Greater Manchester, Leigh, Lancashire, England. He took piano lessons from the age of seven. On leaving Leigh Central County Secondary School at 15, he worked for a brief period in a cotton weaving mill, spending his evenings playing piano for a band called the Dominoes. After taking part in a singing contest at the Butlins, Butlins Holiday Camp in Pwllheli, North Wales, he was offered a job there by the band leader, early British rock-and-roll star Rory Blackwell. At sixte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Earland
Charles Earland (May 24, 1941 – December 11, 1999) was an American jazz organist. Biography Earland was born in Philadelphia and learned to play the saxophone in high school. He played tenor with Jimmy McGriff at the age of 17 and in 1960 formed his first group. He started playing the organ after playing with Pat Martino, and joined Lou Donaldson's band from 1968 to 1969. The group that he led from 1970, including Grover Washington, Jr., was successful, and he eventually started playing soprano saxophone and synthesizer. His hard, simmering grooves earned him the nickname "The Mighty Burner". In 1978, Earland hit the disco/club scene with a track recorded on Mercury Records called "Let The Music Play", written by Randy Muller from the funk group Brass Construction. The record was in the U.S. charts for five weeks and reached number 46 in the UK Singles Chart. With Earland's playing on synthesizer, the track also has an uncredited female vocalist. He had several moderate ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Doggett
William Ballard Doggett (February 16, 1916 – November 13, 1996) was an American pianist and organist. He began his career playing swing music before transitioning into rhythm and blues. Best known for his instrumental compositions "Honky Tonk" and "Hippy Dippy", Doggett was a pioneer of rock and roll. He worked with the Ink Spots, Johnny Otis, Wynonie Harris, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Jordan. Biography Doggett was born in Philadelphia. During the 1930s and early 1940s he worked for Lucky Millinder, Frank Fairfax and arranger Jimmy Mundy. In 1942 he was hired as the Ink Spots' pianist and arranger. In 1951, Doggett organized his own trio and began recording for King Records. His best known recording is "Honky Tonk", a rhythm and blues hit of 1956, which sold four million copies (reaching No. 1 R&B and No. 2 Pop), and which he co-wrote with Billy Butler. The track topped the US ''Billboard'' R&B chart for over two months. He also arranged for many bandleaders and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Dennerlein
Barbara Dennerlein (born 25 September 1964 in Munich) is a German jazz organist. She has achieved critical acclaim for using the bass pedalboard on a Hammond organ and for integrating synthesizer sounds onto the instrument, and was described by critic Ron Wynn as "the most interesting jazz organist to emerge during the 1980s". Career Early years Dennerlein was born and grew up in Munich, Germany. She began playing the organ aged 11 after receiving a small Hohner instrument for Christmas. She was encouraged by her grandfather to learn a musical instrument, and her parents were both jazz enthusiasts. She took formal lessons for two years under the instruction of Paul Greisl, who had a Hammond B-3. She immediately became interested in the instrument and that it contained a bass pedalboard, unlike her Hohner. After some searching, since the instrument was then out of production, she acquired her own Hammond aged 13 from her parents. She began to play concerts aged 14, and the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John DeFrancesco
"Papa" John DeFrancesco (September 12, 1940 – June 25, 2024) was an American jazz organist and vocalist, and father of Joey DeFrancesco and Johnny DeFrancesco. DeFrancesco died on June 25, 2024, at the age of 83. Discography * 1993: ''Doodlin' '' (Muse) * 1995: ''Comin' Home'' (Muse) * 1998: ''All In The Family'' ( HighNote) with Joey DeFrancesco * 2001: ''Hip Cake Walk'' (HighNote) * 2003: ''Jumpin' '' (Savant Savant syndrome ( , ) is a phenomenon where someone demonstrates exceptional aptitude in one domain, such as art or mathematics, despite significant social or intellectual impairment. Those with the condition generally have a neurodevel ...)Jazz Times - Volume 33 2003 Page 62 ""TALKING TO "PAPA' JOHN DEFRANCESCO by phone from his Wilmington, Del., home seemed almost a ... Since 1981, Papa John has released six albums as leader, including this year's well named Jumpin' (Savant), which ..." * 2004: ''Walking Uptown'' (Savant) * 2006: ''Desert Heat'' (Savan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey DeFrancesco
Joey DeFrancesco (April 10, 1971August 25, 2022) was an American jazz organist, trumpeter, saxophonist, and occasional singer. He released more than 30 albums under his own name, and recorded extensively as a sideman with such leading jazz performers as trumpeter Miles Davis, saxophonist Houston Person, and guitarist John McLaughlin. DeFrancesco signed his first record deal at the age of 16 and over the years recorded and toured internationally with David Sanborn, Arturo Sandoval, Larry Coryell, Frank Wess, Benny Golson, James Moody, Steve Gadd, Danny Gatton, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Cobb, George Benson, Pat Martino, Tony Monaco, John Scofield, Lee Ritenour, Joe Lovano, and had prominent session work with a variety of musicians, including Ray Charles, Bette Midler, Janis Siegel, Diana Krall, Jimmy Smith, and Van Morrison. Early life and education DeFrancesco was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania, on April 10, 1971. He was born into a musical family that included three gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
