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Instrument: Organ, Hammond B3
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by Mark Sullivan
Swiss organist Frank Salis (until recently he has called his working trio Frank Salis H3O") plays the blues like he's been doing it since childhood--because he has. As a young prodigy (he taught himself how to play the piano at age eight) he was exposed to blues piano early on, and decided that was what he wanted to do. At age 20 he began studying jazz, finding his second musical love when exposed to the Hammond organ for the first ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
L'ascolto del primo brano di questo disco, una lunga e pensosa Intro" del solo organo Hammond di Frank Salis non ci fa sospettare che si tratterà di un album che possiamo inserire nella categoria dell'acid jazz, con riferimenti a Jimmy Smith ed agli organisti del suo periodo. L'organista svizzero è molto bravo a creare atmosfere cariche di ritmo, a partire da Austin," e - in particolare - con la title-track dalle spiccate venature funky. A parte le composizioni dell'autore da ...
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