Mr Walker - organissimo - Live at the Union Cabaret

[@jessepearson5579]

First class groove...amazing playing by everyone in the band. Thanks...

[@allthebest6829]

Sounds straight from the '60s. Exquisite!

[@Davett53]

December 2021,.........A great way to end this year,....wishing this was still 2015. Back then, life was less stressful, for the whole world. Nobody in 2015 could have imagined that a plague, would sweep across the whole globe, and kill millions. I'm a vintage a model,..I just turned 68, & the plague made mincemeat out of my generation. Here's hoping 2022, is better for humankind.

[@garys8990]

Great sound by three very talented musicians. Thanks for posting.

[@vgerlightningsarason8897]

JIM, YOUR A VERY LIKEABLE SUPER STAR, I REALLY LOVE TO HEAR YOUR ARTFUL MASTERY, IN HAMMOND B - 3, HEAVEN, YOUR A VERY SPECIAL WONDERFUL GENIUS ENTERTAINER, KEEP IT FLOWING lika a hungry river, friend.

[@Del_Monico]

simply amazing

[@georgebarabas]

Jim is da man! Awesome solo there! Thanks for sharing with us!

[@vgerlightningsarason8897]

That hit the spot, Jim.!

[@PeterVred]

Astounding...and 4 ppl applaud. I so relate to this drummer, in a world a heavy hitters. Thank you so much for posting this. I might just be born again.

[@steveshelley5244]

Awesome x 100. So enjoyable to listen to! Thank you for sharing!

[@ivankornmusic]

Sounds very good 👍

[@enjoyyoursleep1]

these cats in my headphones and strong coffee, Perfect! 'Puts feet upon desk'.

[@robertferraiuolo2322]

Excellent guitar tone. You guys sound great.

[@paulmaginley5433]

Even if you do nothing else as a musician, this video alone says it all.

[@gerritveldhuisen7748]

Great Playing ;-) i Like the Randy Marsh- Mellow Drum- Exelent Guitar Playing. ;-) Respect Gerry

[@nickyfarrell3024]

Great video, great audio, and great playing. Dig that solid bass!!!!!!

[@massimomalaguti8865]

Musica Celestiale Per Le Mie Orecchie...Bravi...

[@brycesweeney9237]

Nice version great guitar solo

[@classicjake]

Love it, Jim. Randy is the tastiest drummer I've heard in a very long while. Thank you!

[@DavidJones-tk2op]

This track was great a week or two earlier in Grand Rapids, so lucky to get to see these guys often.

[@danielcoutu9545]

Really nice all around. Love it.

[@leonardofernandezpereira2977]

Amazing!! Jim you're a genius. I'm your fan. Greetings from Argentina

[@jamescorea6135]

Great performance. Lous y work ,

[@groovemonkey73]

Absolutely love this Jim :)

[@francisbalemansj635]

Nice played 😀

[@marcoballa]

great! thanks for sharing

[@ginopallerberg8794]

Really cool sound and amazing playing. Maybe you can make a little workshop for what you are doing in the bass line. I would appreciate that. Greetings from Germany too.

[@tellarjj]

Good job indeed !

[@jacquesmertens3369]

Amazing performance. You deserve to be world famous. I hope I ever get the chance to attend one of your concerts. Greetings from Belgium, the country that brought you the saxophone, Django Reinhardt and Toots Thielemans.

[@jamescorea6135]

Great performance. Lous y camera work

[@Hubit01]

Just great!

[@mondocane4336]

Tasty!! Great job guys 👏👏👏 regards from Argentina

[@mrcurmudgeon2u]

Fab- every time I see one of your vids, I miss seeing you guys live even more- hope to see you play in California someday!

[@PeterVred]

That is my new favorite drummer in the world!

[@JimAlfredson]

+Peter Vred Randy Marsh is the real deal.

[@PeterVred]

+Jim Alfredson You are no slouch either, as noticed by the replies in my FB Post of this, and the keyboard player friend of mine who originally posted this on FB. Great band, all in all, but as an older drummer, I am loving the light, showboat-free approach your drummer takes. With all those cameras going, and he never once felt driving to throw in something unnecessary. Though I would have liked it if he did, too! :) I notice your other drummers are all great as well. YOu are blessed.

[@Wally-H]

Very nice Gentlemen

[@DanWebster]

man this is jamming large goooooly jeez love it

[@sandman93449dm]

Very nice...

[@hermantoothrot3642]

nice one! it's so much more enjoyable than the last live video cause of the better sound quality. also nice video editing! lovin' it!! =) greetings from Germany

[@JimAlfredson]

+Herman Toothrot Thank you, Herman. I thought the time was right to do some professional audio recording of the band live. Look for a new Blu-Ray / DVD as part of our upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

[@javasoccernut]

+Jim Alfredson While, the prof sound is good, so is the live feeling of your other recordings. I feel more like am there. But, I'll take what i can get.

[@leandrolavia3017]

woooooooh !!

[@studiomarand]

Great performance! Bravi!

[@armindomusico]

Very good!

[@Yoshi3802]

素晴らしいトリオですね！

[@markfrant]

Идеальный состав музыкантов. 👍

[@PeterVred]

Love it!

[@alvaromasmela]

Excelente

[@RudyVallaeys]

That's what we like, Yeah !!!!

[@csabasemler6806]

Király!

[@joelc99]

Amazing playing Jim, I love your licks man!! One question though, what expression pedal are you using on the SK2?

[@Davett53]

Ha! Still alive in 2022,....in fact it is May,...less people are dying from Covid,....but still there are deaths from it. Many of have stopped wearing masks,...glad to see people's faces again,...me and my gal, we're back to eating out, inside diners,....though we prefer less crowded ones, and more places have outdoor patios,..and our Summer has just begun.

[@danstephensen9902]

Mmmmmm SO tasty in every way! Thank you SO much. Made my day. Shuffle at the end ....just right.

[@allanb3blues]

Jim Alfredson, is hauling the 3300 worth the effort since the sk2 leslie is pretty realistic ...... i have a 3300 but haven't been hauling it because we play on decent sounding sound systems

[@pnojazz]

That's some great Wes tone by the guitarist too. Are you all from the Kalamazoo area?

[@BillyMcBride]

Thank you, Jim, Larry and Randy for the music. I am going through many of Jim's recordings while waiting for my own Hammond to arrive this week. I record much, but it is all by myself, and I have dreams of playing in a band, but also like being solo on my synthesizers, where I can control better abrupt key changes without telling anybody on the side of me. If I could route midi key into a bass and/or electric guitarist I could have so much fun on stage, but well, though that would be my ideal way of changing keys, it still seems a far off possibility. Have you ever heard of a keyboardist doing this, transposing the other players using midi messages while playing live? Or have you ever tried it? As long as they would play mostly rhythm backing, unless it is time for a solo, it seems like a way to create another kind of playing togetherness. Well, off to another video. Keep up the good work!

[@lookerjdc1]

you guys are great - love the song, love the sounds.... maybe you should have thrown in a little Keith Emerson and that would have shut the audience up..... lol

[@dvamateur]

Sure, it ain't Hiromi, but nothing will ever be Hiromi... Digressing aside, all the online presence of Jim, Tony, and the Hiromi of the organ: Joey, that's all good news to preserve our civilization. Hip-hop, DJ'ing and EDM are bringing our culture down to stone age.

[@klkdc]

i just got a b3 and a leslie 31h and its being wired with a 1/2 moon to a 6h socket which should work for a 31h,or 21h, or 122 I also want to have it wired it for a leslie 3300 I am considering a trek cheek block with a fast/off/slow switch for the 3300 would you recommend this? - or some other way?

[@SvendRJ]

Hi Jim - love your playing and enjoy watching your videos - Please explain why you have cut holes into the back plate of your leslie 3300 - hope to hear from you soon as some members in the Hammondentuasiast group in Denmark thinks your leslie is a mixup of different leslies??? - Cheers Svend

[@Davett53]

Great set......this band is has a lot of (ginger hair colored) men,...or is it the stage lighting?

[@salvaponti]

Fantastic Jim, compliments! Can you tel me The Organ model? Thx

[@JimAlfredson]

That's the Hammond SK2.

[@salvaponti]

Great.

[@teashea1]

SK2 and 3300

[@PastTime777]

Good Loud bass, just like Jimmy. Needs to be turned up. Jimmy played with Joey, gave a phone call to Tony, but I think he came back in you Jim. Outstanding work.

[@standominguez8172]

That was some smooth grooving. Great audio and video. Felt like I was there. Your guitar player has a very nice tone to his guitar. Would you happen to know the make and model of his guitar?

[@Asly65]

The Heritage archtop guitar

[@standominguez8172]

Bernard Ilano Thanks. I'm a little familiar with them.

[@ostesvinet]

Greetings from Denmark. What a great performance. What's that hole in the middle of the Leslie3300?

[@JimAlfredson]

+Morten Gjesing That a custom back panel made by Valhalla Woodworking. The idea was to add bass ports to the 3300 in order to increase the low frequency response. It didn't really work all that well. Hammond switched from MDF to plywood a few years ago and those plywood cabinets have much better bass response.

[@ostesvinet]

+Jim Alfredson Hi Jim. Interesting. I didn't know about the MDF/plywood. I have a Leslie3300 myself, but I don't know what it's made of. I play organ/piano in a band with "left hand bass" and had a little issue with my bass sound in the '3300 (I use the Electric Bass sound from my SK1-77) and thought it was a bit too unstable and "shaky" when the leslie was running in tremolo. Now I have bought a bass combo (TC Electronics BG250-210) and takes the bass signal from LINEOUT while running the organ sounds through the 8pin cable. It works very well. All I need now is practice, practice and practice. :-) By the way: I love the way, You play the old classics Hip Hug Her and Green Onions. It's sooooo good!

[@Belchmaster41]

@@ostesvinet next time Jim and his crew go on stage, I offer a challenge: My Sweet Lord by George Harrison

[@TheRealSandleford]

came here having a conversation how muscicians play off eachother first noticed that between tommy and wes

[@javasoccernut]

who knew k-zoo had a night life. As always - fantabulous. And as always - don't make us wait so long till the next video.

[@ishta]

Pedal bass, yes??

[@JimAlfredson]

Yes. The Hammond XPK-200L bass pedals.

[@Zemael]

How? God! Congratulations! Wow!

[@downpatmusic]

@@JimAlfredson This is really swinging and maybe one of the best examples of organ playing with pedals I have heard among the YT videos of this organ. I'm looking at the newer XKS model. So is your left hand doubling your pedal line for emphasis, as if you are filling with another tone or click or something? Your right foot plays the pedals and your left foot rides the volume pedal? I used to play church pipe organ and would imagine I would play the pedals with my left foot, volume right. But I like the concept of groove with the right foot and left hand for balance. I've produced the late Great Dick Hindman jazz pianist great for his final 2 decades or so of recording, and I can honestly say your pedal groove was excellent here and inspiring. I will try and pick up pedals with my purchase. How many pedal notes is big enough? I thought you were syncing to a prerecorded bass from that lap top in the background until I read you were kicking pedals below. Super cool.

[@JimAlfredson]

@@downpatmusic Thank you for the compliments. The laptop was just for the actual audio recording. All music is played live, no pre-recordings. My approach to bass pedals for jazz on the Hammond is to treat them like the lowest string on a real acoustic or electric bass. The left hand is doing most of the heavy lifting and the pedals accent and produce the really low notes. Since this particular tune is kind of a 'boogaloo' / Latin-esque feel, almost all the fundamentals in the bass line are on the pedals and the left-hand is doing the fifths, the passing tones, the lead tones, etc. This frees up the left hand to also do little rhythmic flourishes, switch the Leslie speed, change drawbars, etc. This tune is available on our live recording Live At The SpeakEZ which you can find on Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, etc.

[@downpatmusic]

@@JimAlfredson Makes sense, thank you Jim. Wonderful playing and feel. So it seems like for today's market the Hammond XK-5 with its latest engineering is a good choice. For the pedals go with Hammond XPL-200L 20 Note, or would the smaller XPK-130G suffice? The SKX, with extra sounds, would also be a good choice for live. But it seems for a studio piece the XK-5 would be a better instrument. I have all the other sounds in many incarnations in the studio. Keep up the great music and creativity.

[@theodoreesawjr.8352]

Bravo! Super Solos! Outstanding Trio! Please check out Theodore Esaw, Jr. Thanks

[@shecky308]

yOU GUYS HALF TO PLAY "sHADOW OF YOUR SMILE"IN A MED.BOSSA NOVA BEAT..LET ME KNOW..ITS 10-13-2019

[@MotownRockinroller]

I counted maybe 8 people in the "audience". What a statement as to the degeneration of live music as an appreciated facet of American society, especially at a local level.