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Robert Walter's Super Heavy Organ
Robert Walter Robert Walter, formerly with Greyboy Allstars, is a definitive keyboardist who murders it on the 'ol organ... Jimmy Smith would be quite proud. Check out the website to see if you're lucky enough to ever hear live: Robert Walter is the definitive soul-jazz organist of this generation. His project, Super Heavy Organ, was recorded in hishometown of New Orleans, and has the New Orleans jazz sound to go with it. As one enthusiest put it, the style is a very unique sound that falls between a Medeski, Martin and Wood sound to more of the New Orleans band, Galactic sound. This is real jazzy funk with all of the laid-back subtleties of organic jazz and the and the hard grooving qualities of a New Orleans funkified fusion fantasmic jazz ensemble. Robert Walter is the former Greyboy Allstars keyboard player -- a group that was formed by DJ Greyboy and the great Karl Denson (who, by the way, is one of the BEST live shows you will ever see, especially at 3:00 a.m. at Bonnaroo :). I believe that Walter uses a real jazz-oriented, almost-spun sounding organ called the Hammond B-3. Has a great sound. Walter recorded Super Heavy Organ with some of the Crescent City's most respected musicians, including drummers (and High Sierra alum) Stanton Moore and Johnny Vidacovich and bassist James Singleton. The resulting music is both exploratory and modern while maintaining its ties to the heritage of jazz. Just dig this. 
Show Information:August 21, 2005 The Villiage at Squaw Valley / Squaw Valley, CA more details Comments: Recently, archive.org has done a lot of updating to their music stuff. Instead of having a straight show stream to listen to now, the download will give you duplicates of each track (one in 64k and another in higher vbr quality). Anyways, this show is awesome, and they really are great jazz with great organ, as the name indicates. |
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