standards for an organ trio?

[richb2]

I have a B3 player I will be jamming with in a few weeks. We are both into blues so i am looking for a few organ trio blues orientated tunes to play with him. Standards would be best. Anyone know of what Realbook tunes have been covered by organ trios?

[MarkRhodes]

Jimmy Smith's "Back at the Chicken Shack."

On this same record there's a nice version of "On The Sunny Side of the Street." Not a blues, but a tune that seems to work well in an organ trio setting.

There's also "Sunny." Several people have posted the YouTube clip of Pat Martino playing it with Joey DeFrancesco.

Here's a live take of Jimmy Smith doing "Organ Grinder's Swing." Kenny Burrell on guitar here too. (That's KB on "Chicken Shack.")

[fep]

My favorite album in the genre, and this takes me back some 40 years plus. You should get the album.

[docbop]

It's Blues just make up heads and go. It's actually a good lesson making up heads it teaches about creating and developing a motif.

Look for Kenny Burrell and Jimmy Smith tunes their early stuff was pretty basic blues.

[destinytot]

[gggomez]

What a great opportunity. Get on some Jack MacDuff and Jimmy McGriff.

[cosmic gumbo]

Alligator Boogaloo

[Jonah]

You can check of any of Larry Goldings - Organ, Peter Bernstein- Guitar, Bill Stewart- Drums

To me one of the best modern trio of that kind, there are records both under Larry's name and Peter's as a leader.. and they have quite a few blues rooted tracks

[destinytot]

Bacharach

[ingeneri]

Why limit yourself to blues? Jimmy Smith recorded plenty of pure bebop tunes as well, check out "Au Privave" and "Confirmation" on House Party and Monk's "Hackensack" on Softly As a Summer Breeze.

Check out Burrell with McDuff on "Nica's Dream" and "How Hight the Moon", Peter Bernstein does a great version of "Bemsha Swing" with Dr. Lonnie Smith. Shirley Scott and Eddie Lockjaw Davis recorded reams of standards, Gene Ammons with Groove Holmes is great too.

Baby Face Willette's They Can't Take That Away from Me with Grant Green is proof positive you can turn anything into a gut bucket greasy chitlin' circuit blues.

Fact is, anything that works with piano works better with Hammon B3. I've got an organ trio gig coming up next month, and we're going to be doing a Sinatra tribute and working in Horace Silver tunes in between.

[BigToe]

Pat Martino has a lot to offer here

[StanG]

Do your own research. there is a ton of great stuff going back about 55 years. Didn't someone like Groove Holmes have juke box hits doing standards like Misty over a shuffle beat?

[StanG]

To add: if you are going to play this stuff in public, you probably should have a greater familiarity with the tunes and the genre then you get from second hand info from some dude on the internets.

[Rob MacKillop]

All Blues

[richb2]

To add: if you are going to play this stuff in public, you probably should have a greater familiarity with the tunes and the genre then you get from second hand info from some dude on the internets.

who mentioned playing in public? Was that assumed? I find valuable opinions on some posts and not others.

[StanG]

I will admit to an a++hole response, but this is stuff someone who plays jazz needs to know. And knowledge that one seeks out and finds on their own is more valuable than responses on the internet.

Name five B-3 players and the guitar and sax players they are associated with. If you can't, do a little research. Then, some looking and listening will tell you what you need to know.

[richb2]

Stan, sorry, not interested in arguing with you.

This is Chris Hazleton with the fabulous Danny Embrey on guitar who I try to convince to give me lessons every time I make it to KC.

[Eric Rowland]

^^^ Excellent! ^^^

[BigToe]

I will admit to an a++hole response, but this is stuff someone who plays jazz needs to know. And knowledge that one seeks out and finds on their own is more valuable than responses on the internet.

Name five B-3 players and the guitar and sax players they are associated with. If you can't, do a little research. Then, some looking and listening will tell you what you need to know.

the irony of you telling someone on a forum for the purpose of learning and exchanging ideas about jazz guitar that they shouldn`t accept the ideas or opinions of others, does not escape me. Does that mean they should follow your advice when reading your response as well?