Favorite Organ

Richard Hyman is an American jazz pianist and composer. Over a 70-year career, he has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, electronic musician, and composer. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters fellow in 2017. His grandson is designer and artist Adam Charlap Hyman.

In the summer of 2017, New Organ Trio entered into a collaboration with Tobaksgaarden about a series of café concerts with the title: Sommerjazz. A number of jazz saxophonists were invited to Assens to participate as soloists, and we recorded all the concerts. These recordings have now become an album entitled New Organ Trio meets Christina von Bülow - Pernille Bévort - Nicolai Schultz, and through the winter we have listened and edited the many footage.

Walter Wanderley - Walter Wanderley's Brazilian Organ (1962) {Blue Moon BMCD 861 rel 2015}
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Jazz / Latin Jazz / Bossa Nova / Brazilian / Afro-Cuban Jazz / World Music

Walter Wanderley's understanding of and digital skill with bossa nova rhythm patterns was enviable, comparable only to Joao Gilbertos genius. With dozens of phony, unmusical albums of Brazilian jazz and pop music inundating American record shops since bossa nova happily emerged from Brazil in mid-1962, Walter Wanderleys swinging style at the Hammond console epitomized the finest in authentic Brazilian entertainment.

John Zorn - The Hermetic Organ, Vol. 6 - For Edgar Allan Poe (2019) {Tzadik TZ 8362}
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Classical / Avant-Garde

In these two spectacular performances Zorn literally “pulls out all the stops” in paying tribute to one of his favorite writers, the legendary Edgar Allan Poe, whose fantastical creations continue to capture the imagination of those interested in the dark side. Calling upon the Angels in two extended improvisations inspired by the haunting and frightening imagery of one of the world’s masters of fantasy and the imagination, the music features some of the strangest sounds you have ever heard come out of the instrument. This is organ improvisation at its most outrageous and macabre. You have never heard such sounds!

This is definitely the best recording of Widor's 5th Symphony on record. There are some highlights that set this recording above the others. There is a point at the end of the first movement in which the music builds up to one of the final displays of the theme (timestamp 7:27 on this recording), and I assure you the crescendo Chorzempa does is the best of any recorded.