Has been a player on the rock scene for over 25 years, notching up almost 200 album credits and associations with 20 or more major bands including Cozy Powell’s Hammer, Colosseum II, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Jethro Tull and ELO.
From 1992-95, Don’s involvement in the music scene was sporadic, due to his older son’s serious illness, but since has been continually occupied recording, producing or touring with a multitude of artists including Tony Iommi, Glenn Hughes, Ten, Uli Jon Roth, Judas Priest, Silver, opera singer Mark Rattray, Gary Barden, Michael Schenker, UFO, Graham Bonnet and, last but not least, Deep Purple.
Don came to Purple’s rescue mid 2001 to help out for an injured Jon Lord, who has since retired, with Don recording the new album with Deep Purple as the band’s permanent keyboard player.
"The thought crossed my mind a few years ago 'If Jon retired...?.... Naaaah ....... They'd never ask me'. So when he did and they did, I jumped at the chance and it exceeded my expectations from the first number I played with them, Woman from Tokyo, at the Skanderborg Festival in 2001. Touring Russia and the US last year was a highlight and recording a new album with the band in Royaltone Studios LA, January 2003, the sort of experience I thought I'd said goobye to years ago - Long may it continue!"
Born in Munich in 1964, Barbara Dennerlein started playing organ at the age of eleven. Just a few years later, aged fifteen, she performed regularly at local jazz clubs. There she laid the foundations for her future career as a professional musician, which, before very long, let her rise to the circle of the few German artists with international reputation and become the leading representative of her instrument, the legendary Hammond B3. With her brilliant playing technique she created an innovative and distinctive style that opened up totally new musical dimensions for the Hammond organ, which in modern jazz had been ignored for a long time. Without doubt she can claim that she has paved the way for the organ's current renaissance in jazz.
Organist Adam Scone remains true to his art form. "The organ is such a vital part of popular music", he says, "and it's important that people around the world get to hear it. It is critical that it is not forgotten." Adam has dedicated his life to keeping the sound of the Hammond B3 organ alive. His new focus is to melt the stylistic preconceptions of the instrument, to break away from the artistic norm, and anticipates showing this creativity to a wider audience with his upcoming solo releases.
Since February of 2004, Scone has been playing organ with JJ Grey & MOFRO, including their breaktrhough performance at the Bonnaroo Festival, the Austin City Limits Music Festival and many others.
Adam is also member of the world renowned funk group the Sugarman 3, who have played many of the worlds top music festivals including the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, The North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, the Montreal Jazz Festival, The Purple Weekend in Spain, and the Glastonbury Music Festival in the United Kingdom.
In 2001, 2002 and 2003, Mr. Scone was chosen as a Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Jazz Ambassador. This enabled him to bring the organ sound to 18 Countries in Africa, South America and throughout the Middle East.
Organist Adam Scone feels it is essential to keep the sound of the Hammond B3 organ alive. He has dedicated his life to this task. He Says, "The organ is such a vital part of Jazz, it is important that people around the world get to hear it. It is very important that it is not forgotten." Adam is member of the world renowned Funk Group the Sugarman 3. In the past few years they have played many of the Worlds top Music Festivals including, the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. The North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Glastonbury Music Festival in the United Kingdom. In 2001, 2002 and 2003, Mr. Scone was chosen as a Kennedy Center for the Performing Art's, Jazz Ambassador. This enabled him to bring the organ sound to 18 Countries in Africa, South America and throughout the Middle East.
Buck’s First Studio Disc in Eight Years HERE and in Stores NOW!
Jackpot!, on Buck’s own label, Tomorrow Recordings, combines soulful original tunes, inspired playing and singing, and the trademark exuberance that’s made him the world’s best-loved zydeco artist, and has earned Buckwheat Zydeco the sobriquet “the world’s greatest party band.” There’s plenty of Buckwheat’s signature accordion, and for the first time ever Buck specifically features his soulful mastery of the horizontal keyboard on a fantastic three-song Hammond B3 “Encore featuring Organic Buckwheat.”
Growing up in the swamplands of northern Florida, JJ Grey became a realist early on. "You fall in love with a pig," he says, "and then one day your granddad knocks it in the head and bleeds it for butchering. You tend to grow up with a certain amount of realism in your life."
JJ Grey and his band MOFRO exude rocking, funky, melodic, front porch realism in every song they play. Grey comes from a long tradition of Southern storytellers, and his songs oftentimes use the loss of his natural surroundings and the marginalization of the Southern culture he grew up in as a metaphor for universal truths. The band delivers his material with brilliant musicianship, resulting in music that is thought provoking, rhythmically dynamic and texturally mesmerizing.
