Jimmy Smith may have reinvented the Hammond B3, but Blue Note’s roster of organists went deeper from the imaginatively funky Lonnie Smith to the soulful grooves of Big John Patton to the modal explorations of Larry Young.
Jimmy Smith may have reinvented the Hammond B3, but Blue Note’s roster of organists went deeper from the imaginatively funky Lonnie Smith to the soulful grooves of Big John Patton to the modal explorations of Larry Young.
Blue Note greats like Horace Silver & Art Blakey took the innovations of bebop, added the influence of the blues & gospel, and created the timeless sound of hard bop.
Blue Note greats like Horace Silver & Art Blakey took the innovations of bebop, added the influence of the blues & gospel, and created the timeless sound of hard bop.