Results for "organ, Hammond B3"

Alain Van Zeveren

Born: December 31, 1963

Born in Ghent in 1963. Studied at the Royal Music Academy and Conservatory in Ghent. Focusses on Jazz (piano/composition) for several years, played with Dave Pike, Lionel Hampton, Marjory Barnes, BRT television-orchestra ,Toots Thielemans ... Wrote 2 songs for Toots : « Flow » (Jazz-waltz) and « Amoroso » (Brasilian Jazz ballad). 1988-’90 : Teaches Jazz piano and arranging at the Jazz academy of Overijse-Brussels. Co-founded and was a member of the Rock-Pop group « The Radios », who were very succesfull in and abroad Belgium. They received 4 times GOLD and 3 times PLATINUM records for sales of their four full cd’s

RichBudesa

Born: February 2, 1965

Rich Budesa is among the most in demand creative Keyboardists on the current music scene. He is a master B3 Jazz Organists, Pianists and Multi-keyboardist. Rich is also a composer and a vocalist. He performs regularly with his brother Robert Budesa, an outstanding Guitarist. Together they co-lead their group The Budesa Brothers. He has performed and recorded with some of the greatest musicians in Jazz including Grover Washington Jr., Lenny White, George Duke, Mulgrew Miller, Christian McBride, Charles Fambrough, Eric Alexander, Ralph Bowen, Jimmy Heath, Byron Landham, Jimmy Bruno, Junior Cook, John Swana, Georgie Young, Billy Paul, and is currently a member of the Johnny Defrancesco Enormous Band which will be featuring Joey Defrancesco and Papa John DeFrancesco on an upcoming CD! Rich and his brother Rob have been featured together with Drummer Lucky Thompson on the NPR Radio program American Routes and Rich recently performed at the World Cafe Live for a National Broadcast on Jazz Night in America hosted by Christian McBride.

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Born: April 11, 1948

Vel Lewis

Born: November 30, 1954

Vel Lewis (legal name is Velbert Lewis, Jr.) is an American contemporary jazz musician born on November 30, 1954, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His primary instrument of choice is the Hammond organ; however he also plays piano, synthesizer keyboards, drums, and electric bass guitar.

He began his music career in 1965 as a 1st soprano vocalist with the Philadelphia All-Boys Choir under the direction of Dr. Carlton J. Lake. He attended Settlement Music School for vocal/piano training. He also began studies on concert flute. In 1966, he switched from flute to organ, and advanced to 1st soprano soloist in the Philadelphia All-Boys Choir Small Ensemble group. In 1967, he traveled with the Philadelphia All-Boys Choir Small Ensemble to Montreal, Canada and appeared at Expo ’67 as lead soloist. In 1968, he continued organ studies on the Hammond organ with Mr. Milton Myers, then with Dr. E. Woodley Kalehoff, Sr., White House pianist to U.S. President Harry Truman in 1969 for three years. He attended Overbrook High School between 1969 and 1972. During these years, he performed on a televised jazz program playing organ with drummer Gerry Brown and bassist John Lee, and recorded Hammond organ on gospel recording sessions for ABC's Peacock Record label with producer Ira Tucker, Sr. for albums by groups known as The Sensational Nightingales, The Gospelaires, and The Dixie Hummingbirds. In 1972, he was under recording contract with Philadelphia International Records, performing with a vocal group known as "The Futures". The group was known for their single, "Love Is Here".

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Rick DePiro

Born: May 30, 1967

Rick DePiro, (born May 30, 1967) who is known by his stage name Ricky Dee, is an American Country singer-songwriter, notable and award winning jazz pianist and jazz organist, and a music producer who has recorded and produced over twenty-five albums. DePiro is also the founder of RADCO Music Group,[1] a Los Angeles based multimedia group consisting of JaRic Records and Entertainment,[2] a Los Angeles based independent record label and multimedia company that is located, as well, in Nashville, Carol Lynn Designs, an Entertainment industry based jewelry design and manufacturing company bringing to market the designs of famed Celebrity jewelry designer Carol Lynn facilitated to television by Emmy award winning designer and stylist Soyon An, each of American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance fame,[3] RADCO Media Group, a web design and internet specialty company [4] and the "PLAY MUSIC-ENJOY LIFE!"TM Piano series for Music and Wellness as part of PLAY MUSIC-ENJOY LIFE! Inc., a non-profit California based company partnered with the American Cancer Society and headed by several notable Music and Wellness music industry veterans, musical artists and piano industry veterans including Education Director and Music and Wellness expert Tory Aleman,which is a group lesson program for Music and Wellness including stress relief,.[5] DePiro is the son of a steel executive (and hall of fame softball pitcher) father, Louis, and Jazz vocalist mother, Joan, (whose uncle, Vincent Nola, founded and owned Nola Studios in New York City and recorded such luminaries as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Jack Jones and Sammy Davis Jr), and sibling to two younger sisters Deanna, a computer sales executive and Jacki, a well known Jazz vocalist and a founding and current partner at JaRic Records and Entertainment

Charlie Dennard

Charlie Dennard is an American keyboardist, composer and arranger who currently resides in New Orleans, Louisiana. For the last 20 years Charlie has performed and recorded internationally with a variety of jazz, blues and world music ensembles, as well as two separate Cirque du Soleil installations. Beginning with piano lessons at the age of 6, Charlie continued his music education at Auburn University before completing his Bachelors Degree in Music Media and Industry from the esteemed University of Miami in 1992. Charlie received his Masters Degree in Music from the University of New Orleans in 1998, where he was a jazz piano student of the legendary Ellis Marsalis. Charlie moved to New Orleans in early 1996 to get more intimate with the city that gave birth to Jazz

The Mondlarks Hammond B3 Trio

The Mondlarks. The Mondlarks Hammond B3 Trio is an Australian Jazz swing group. The line up is Liam Kealy Hammond B3, Brigid McKinnon vocals/guitar and Rohan Heddle 0n Drums and percussion. Their repertoire takes the audience on a journey of 40s/50s early jazz standards mixed with some Latin, Soul and Blues. Both Brigid and Liam, collaborate in writing all of their original music Producing pumping Hammond and drum instrumentals, Along with a divers selection of Sultry Jazz flavoured songs from Brigid. As the name implies the main feature of the line up is the Hammond B3 Organ played in the traditional style of the early Jazz Hammond players using bass pedals. The sound produced with the B3 is both warm and well rounded says Liam who has studied the styles of Jimmy Smith, Barabara Denneilen Jack Mcduff, Jimmy Mcgriff, The Mondlarks have toured across Australia performing at most of the resorts and music venues. In 2013 they performed at the Internationally renowned Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival, a festival that attracts both Australian and International musicians as an annual event. They have also held a 5 year residency at Rippon Lea Estate in Melbourne

Emil Savery

Born: September 12, 1992

Jocelyn Michelle

Jocelyn Michelle was born in Florida but raised in New Jersey. Her parents were both musical, her mother was a semi-professional pianist and opera singer, and her father played some trumpet. Jocelyn began piano lessons when she was just 7 years old when her parents discovered that she could already play melodies by ear. She eventually gravitated to guitar and played rock in her teens. She went to the University of Miami School of Music as a Music Merchandising Major for a while and returned to the keyboards when she left school. She had been playing on the club circuit in the Miami area when she met her husband, John Rack, who had his own musical project