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Eisboch wrote:

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Yeah?

Top this:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs0nB...om=PL&index=42


She was good, no doubt. Too bad it isn't a B3.

Here's a B3. In fact, in some of the sections of the video, Monaco is
playing the exact B3 I have in the music shop. I have pictures and a
CD of him playing it that came with the organ when I bought it.

He has an interesting background. As a young kid, around the age of 11,
he was learning to play an accordion but contracted some form of a
neurological disease. He totally lost control of the muscles that
control finger movements. He had to relearn, by shear will power, the
ability to control movement of his hands and fingers. Even today if you
watch closely the way he forms chords on the organ keyboard and attacks
the keys is a bit different from what you would normally expect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xVU_BLow5M

Eisboch


Great organist, to be sure, but even though he is playing a tribute to
Jimmy Smith, Jimmy Smith he ain't.


His name isn't Jimmy Smith, agreed. But his style, interpretation and
technique is certainly spot on, an opinion shared by most contemporary jazz
musicians. In that "Tribute" he didn't really get carried away because he
was doing the song exactly as Smith did. I've seen and heard others,
including some classic blues that knock your socks off. I just have a
particular fascination with the sound of a tweaked Hammond B3/Leslie
combination. Another unbelievable B3 artist was Billy Preston. He could
make his very modified B3 sing.

Gives me goosebumps.

Eisboch