http://www.metafilter.com/tags/HammondB-3 Posts tagged with 'HammondB-3' at MetaFilter. Tue, 27 May 2008 20:50:29 -0800 Tue, 27 May 2008 20:50:29 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/72035/McGriffs%2DGroove Soulful, funky and blues-inflected jazz organist Jimmy McGriff <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/arts/music/28mcgriff.html?ref=obituaries">passed away</a> over the weekend. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McGriff">McGriff</a> (wiki) belonged (along with Jimmy Smith, Charles Earland, Lonnie Smith, Melvin Rhyne, John Patton, and others) to that select group of Hammond B-3 players who defined that instrument for jazz and related music--he played in small <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul-jazz">soul jazz</a> combos that owed their greasy, riff-based sound as much to R&amp;B as to bebop. Here's a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtsMnzKciV4">small taste</a> of McGriff's music. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72035 Tue, 27 May 2008 20:50:29 -0800 HammondB-3 jazz-organ JimmyMcGriff ornate insect