^Groove^ Invitation to all!

[Gilles Bacon <gilles@netcom.netcom.com>]

^Groove^ is also a "short" mailing list.  If you want to exchange comments on 
artists, e-mail me and I will summarize it and forward it to everyone 
"subscribed", as well as include it in the WWW page.

Here's my latest update:

This month's Downbeat magazine has a feature article "B-3 Jammin' with 
Jimmy Smith."  Interesting insights.  Groove and McGriff used to be pupils of 
Smith's and would hide secrets from each other ...  According to Smith, they 
would wake him up in the morning.  As a boy/teen, Smith would get to Bud 
Powell's home before he got up, and was allowed to go there until he got too 
good!  He even played a Charlie Parker gig one night (of many it seems) 
Powell was late.

"Make Way For The Originals" is the name of a tour organized by Russ 
Dewbury (according to Straight No Chaser Winter '94) which features:
Pucho (percussion), Melvin Sparks (guitar), Johnny Lytle (vibes), Reuben 
Wilson (organ) and Idris Muhammad (drums).  Beat Goes Public has reissued 
albums from all these artists except Wilson.

Oberheim makes a "Piano & Organ, to go": the OB-3.  A flat portable
keyboard with a separate console with drawbars and presets.  It even
has "key click", a "feature" originally considered to be a drawback in
design, but was found lacking when it was "corrected" by later
designs.  Haven't heard the sound, so can't say if it sounds like the
real thing, or if you can get the "real" B-3 sound without Leslies.

[Any insight from you here would be greatly appreciated!]

The update also had info on the XB-3 plus some new artist info which
was already incorporated into ^Groove^, which I just sent.

All comments/suggestions are welcome, and will receive proper credit.

Please keep flames polite, this is my initial attempt, and it is unpolished at 
best.

Gilles