http://www.b3monaco.com/Playingjazzhammond.htm

NIce Demos too

Monaco is GREAT !!! . I have the CD of him and Joey D ... fabulous ...
t.

Hey guys, check this out too. It's a killer album.
http://www.jellyroll.com/02/walls.html

So much good stuff about.

Tony's great. Makes me think of my B 3 days. I get a little nostalgic until I remember how much they weigh. I hauled one around for several years in the 70's. Nothing on God's earth sounds like one.

Joe

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Joe Ayala

Ah, Winston Walls. He played around Lexingon on and off in the 70's-early 80's...a really loud, take control dynamo. We worked at Up Jump the Devil and O'Keef's as a trio and worked opposite each other after hours at Comers and The Sportsman.He occasionally made structure errors (occasional questionable changes), but made up for most of it in pure force, magnatism and power. Heard from a mutual friend that he's been having some health problems.

My only problem with the Jack McDuff deal is, Jack was older and more established than Winston and Winston approached that Philladelphia deal as an out-an-out war...no respect for McDuff, and I thought he really deserved that.

Winston is an old school "cutting session" kind of guy, and those sessions can be brutal!

Winston had no finess at all...but got more out of a B-3 than anyone I ever heard live, including Jimmy Smith.

What a character!


Russ

excuse this...it's a test.Just got DSL and a new laptop.

Russ

Thanks for passing that along,some great organists for sure. Another great who is no longer with us Groove Holmes. I had the opportunity to see in Boston at a place called Scullers was Groove Holmes. He make that B speak.

After listening to Monaco and Joey D. makes ya feel like you have arthritis

Re: Winston Walls

I saw Winston playing in a smoky little bar near Punta Gorda, Florida a few years ago. However, he was playing 2 digital keyboards and not the B3. He was quite good. During a break we chatted for awhile and he lamented the fact that not many venues wanted to hear him on his B3 and so he went where the money was. He was selling an of him on the B3 which I bought.

Tom

That "Paesanos" CD is a lot of fun ... especially the "Oh, Marie" cut ... sounds like a real Italian party ...

Back around 1980 I happened to be in Chicago
during a jazz festival ... Gerry Mulligan and his big band were appearing at the hotel I was staying at ... I paid FIVE BUCKS to hear them perform and the room was only half full ... the next night I walked into a club and The Jimmy Smith Trio was playing .. NO COVER CHARGE !!! It was GREAT !!! ...

Quote from Grandpa Tom:
"... he lamented the fact that not many venues wanted to hear him on his B3 and so he went where the money was."

It's ALL ABOUT THE MONEY !!!

t.