Results for "Mel Rhyne"

Mel Rhyne

Born: October 12, 1936

Prime Vintage: Introducing Prime Vintage

by Jack Bowers
October 27, 2023

Prime Vintage is an Indiana-based organ trio led by Steve Snyder and including guitarist Joel Tucker and drummer Kenny Phelps. Introducing Prime Vintage is the group's first recording, and a fine one it is. Seven of the album's eight engaging numbers are original compositions by Snyder; the other is Leo Nocentelli's funky “Message ...

Eric Siereveld: Walk The Walk

by Jack Bowers
April 4, 2018

The “organic" in trumpeter Eric Siereveld's Organic Quintet doesn't mean the group has no artificial ingredients or synthetic preservatives; rather, it denotes the fact that the quintet's modus operandi rests in some measure on the well-defined tone colors produced by Steve Snyder's indispensable Hammon B3 organ. The word “indispensable" is used because it is Siereveld's purpose ...

Wes Montgomery, Soulive and the Beatles: Bending Time

by Chris May
October 11, 2010

Two albums by guitar/organ trios would seem, on the face of it, to be prosaic enough propositions. And musically, guitarist Wes Montgomery's Boss Guitar, newly remastered, and Soulive's Rubber Soulive, recorded in 2010, are indeed straightforward affairs. But consider them together, and a cluster of time warps emerge, as 47 years of age difference shrink and ...

Stick To The Kick

By Mel Rhyne

Label: Telarc
Released: 1997

Mel's Spell

By Mel Rhyne

Label: Telarc
Released: 1996

Organ-Izing

By Mel Rhyne

Label: Telarc
Released: 1960