Jazz Articles about B3 Conspiracy

B3 Conspiracy: Sleeping Lions

by Nicholas F. Mondello
January 18, 2012

There's something magnificently earthy and earth-moving about the sounds emanating from a Hammond B3 organ, especially when it's in great hands. Marvelous players such as Jimmy Smith, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Richard “Groove" Holmes and Joey DeFrancesco lead the B3 parade. B3 Conspiracy's Sleeping Lions is a doubly delicious dose of organ-driven jazz: not only is there Bill Callanan's fine playing (deserving to be listed with the aforementioned), but the CD gives props to organ/soul-jazz stars Brother Jack McDuff and Les ...