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Morning practice on Cedar’s Blues 🎹 Playing a Morning practice on Cedar’s Blues 🎹
Playing along with Jesse van Ruller’s (@jessevanruller ) recording with Willie Jones III on drums and Frans van Geest on bass. I removed Frans’ great bass part using Logic’s stem splitter to really focus on time, swing, and subtle comping and playing bass obviously. 😊.Such a good workout for feel — harder than it sounds to keep it relaxed and swinging.Guitar lovers in particular: definitely check out Jesse’s album Here and There — highly recommended.🎧 Headphones recommended to really hear what’s going on in the low end.#cedarsblues #jessevanruller #fransvangeest #williejonesiii #hammondorgan comping timefeel swing jazzpractice organlife jazzguitar
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A little taste of one of my favorite grooves ever A little taste of one of my favorite grooves ever — Jimmy Smith’s Root Down (1972). This live album is pure funk-jazzy Hammond bliss and I could play it all day. Here’s a short snippet.#RootDown #JimmySmith #HammondOrgan #JazzFunk #organlove
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A little moment with Jimmy Smith’s Off The Top 🎹
One of my all-time favorite albums with George Benson, Ron Carter, Grady Tate and Stanley Turrentine. I’m slowly working my way into the title track here, comping under Benson’s solo and just enjoying the groove.Highly recommended record if you don’t know it yet.#offthetop #jimmysmith #hammondorgan #souljazz #blues organtrio groove improvisation
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Comping under a guitar solo and sneaking in a shor Comping under a guitar solo and sneaking in a short solo of my own. No plan, just play — exactly how I like it.#abluesadaykeepsthebluesaway #hammondorgan #blues #organtrio #souljazz
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Improvising over the chord progression of Mozzarel Improvising over the chord progression of Mozzarella.
A tune I wrote and recorded some years ago with Montis, Goudsmit & Directie — and one I keep coming back to. 🎹#hammondorgan #hammondb3 #organplayer #jazzorgan #souljazz
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A Blues a day keeps the blues away… even when it A Blues a day keeps the blues away… even when it’s just blueSY.
A groovy track today with some comping, left-hand bass and a short solo to top it off.
Some middle of the week Hammond fun.#hammondorgan #hammondlessons #hammondb3 #organplayer #abluesadaykeepsthebluesaway
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A Blues a day keeps the blues away.Today it’s A Blues a day keeps the blues away.Today it’s a funky Blues in C — a bit of comping to set it up and a short solo to finish it off..#hammondorgan #hammondlessons #hammondb3 #organplayer #abluesadaykeepsthebluesaway
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A little Monday-morning noodling over a funky groo A little Monday-morning noodling over a funky groove.
Nothing serious — just warming up the hands and seeing where it goes.More Hammond ideas and practice clips at HammondLessons.com.#hammondorgan #hammondlessons #hammondb3 #organplayer
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Another little practice clip while getting ready f Another little practice clip while getting ready for the Soul Picnic tomorrow at Festival Blues aan de Zaan (Podium De Flux, Zaandam).
I’m playing with a UK group featuring three singers, including Jo Harman. This is me running through the organ solo on her tune Don’t Give Up On Me
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A little practice clip today. Working on the left- A little practice clip today.
Working on the left-hand bass for Ready and Able from George Benson’s Cookbook.
Rhythm changes at this tempo have always been a bit of a struggle for me (study more Frank!), so I’m using this as a study groove to keep things steady and “relaxed”.#hammondorgan #lefthandbass
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🎹 Just had some fun playing along to The Breeze 🎹 Just had some fun playing along to The Breeze And I from the Kenny Burrell and Jack McDuff Quartet version, originally from the album Crash!This tune will be in the Hammond Real Book on HammondLessons.com soon.If you haven’t checked out that album yet, definitely give it a listen — it’s a killer Hammond record!#HammondOrgan #JazzOrgan #KennyBurrell #JackMcDuff #HammondLessons #HammondRealBook
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