Light Box: Conception of William Hooker Don't tell him he plays loud. He learned about music and his instrument playing within a tradition that straddles R&B and jazz. That tradition congeals in the smoothly accessible, yet sonically forceful music of the organ trios of the mid-sixties and it demanded amplitude. "An organ is powerful— a Hammond B3 with a Leslie tone cabinet. That's a six foot cabinet. It's got that swirly thing inside and you have to play with a certain amount of power," -- Thomas Stanley Continue reading
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