Hi all,

I am looking for good music (any genre, especially rock and fusion) featuring tons of ORGAN.

Some examples of organ-driven music I've been listening to a lot lately:

- Cressida
- Beggars Opera
- Quatermass
- Niacin
- Bo Hansson

Thanks,
Demetrio.

Walter Wanderley ;)


Carl

Emerson Lake and Palmer

Jimmy Smith (jazz), Lee Michaels (rock), and if it's B3 through a Leslie you need, then anything with Ray Charles or Billy Preston will not disappoint, especially live.

+1 on Lee Michaels , all organ and drums , dig it .

After The Rain ~ John McLaughlin with Elvin Jones & Joey DeFrancesco

Six wives of Henry 8th
Rick Wakeman
Its ALL organ

Shirley Scott, Bill Doggett.

Tony Williams ~ Lifetime

Tony Williams ~ John McLaughlin ~ Jack Bruce ~ Larry Young

The first Blondie lp has tons of great organ. And there is an amazing Elvis Costello bootleg from a '77 show that has the farfisa mixed way up front in the mix. Fantastic stuff.

I thought all Rock & Roll was driven by "organs"...

Joey Difrancesco

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=JOEY|DEFRANCESCO&sql=11:avftxq85ldke~T0

? and The Mysterians

The Sir Douglas Quintet

The Riveras

Perhaps this is a stretch but...

Led Zeppelin's "In Through The Out Door" comes to mind. The question instantly made me think of "Carouselambra". Perhaps this would be better suited to synthesizer.

hardly prog, but just got Booker T's new release "Potato Hole" and it smokes!

Backed up by Drive By Truckers and Niel Young

Medeski Martin and Wood is my favorite Organ Driven Good Music.

Check out Bubblehouse from the disc Shack Man, makes me feel like I am at a Roller Rink or 1960's strip club!



http://www.theatreorgans.com/grounds/groove/medeski.html

Danny Gatton "Relentless" with Joey DeFrancesco

John Scofield "A Go Go" with MMW

Any Deep Purple album with Jon Lord on it

je

Deep Purple

The Doors (Ray Manzarek)
+1 on Booker T and the MG's
Highway 61 Revisited by Dylan

Thanks all for the great suggestions. :thmbsp:

Do you guys know the German organ player BARBARA DENNERLEIN? I heard some samples of hers and loved what I heard. :yes:

Demetrio.

Veronica from The Archies was pretty good.

Badger's debut album, One Live Badger (but not their second album, White Lady)

Veronica from The Archies was pretty good.

Hey, if you're going there, then Laurie Partridge wasn't bad, either.

je

Veronica from The Archies was pretty good.

What a talent! :thmbsp:

Uriah Heep.

What a talent! :thmbsp:

I mean yeah, she was no Brother Jack McGriff, but she could play.

Iron Butterfly
Yes
ELP
Rick Wakeman

Bloodrock
Grand Funk (after '72)
Vanilla Fudge-suprised nobody's mentioned them yet.
Dave "baby" Cortez
Atomic Rooster.

Brian Auger and the Oblivion Express

All of the old focus albums
Triumvirat-Illusions,Spartacus
All of the old camel albums

Nightwing
Demon
The early Stranglers
Refuge
Spocks Beard
Wobbler
Dom Minasi/ Quick Response
Early Camel
Greenslade
Lucifers Friend
The Nice
Air
Early Elvis Costello

Thanks all for the great suggestions. :thmbsp:

Do you guys know the German organ player BARBARA DENNERLEIN? I heard some samples of hers and loved what I heard. :yes:

Demetrio.


Just checked her out on YouTube, pretty amazing organist. The videos showing her footwork on the pedals are really cool!

Will have to find some of her CD's.

If you dig this style of music you should be checking out Jimmy Smith's old Blue Note Jazz Stuff.

I was surprised to see two mentions of Lee Michaels so early in this thread. I thought he was a little under the radar. Michaels has a self-titled studio album that is essentially live - it was recorded in one day. One side is a medley, on the other he has a cover of "Stormy Monday" that is wild.

Another standout piece of organ music that I've heard and am yet to find locally if from a collection of Otis Clay live in Japan. There is an organ solo that steals the show.

Regards,

D-Ray

The Band

Danny Gatton "Relentless" with Joey DeFrancesco



That's a SMOKIN disc.:rockon:

Caldera
early Genesis
Jimmy Smith / recommend "Root Down"
Larry Young ; he roomed with John Coltrane and did some recordings for Blue Note. Trippy stuff,dude got into LSD.
Joe Henderson/ Organ on The Elements Cd
Alice Coltrane

Check out "Gracious!" and any early "Soft Machine", brilliant!

...Featuring Booker Ervin on Tenor.

Unity by Larry Young
Jimmy Smith with Wes Montgomery

lonnie smith,acid jazz on blue note.