[HAM] A hammond vacation

[Scott Hawthorn]

At 12:56 PM 7/9/2008, John Lynch wrote:
> >there were the famous black groups that
>featured organ, notably Dave Lewis and Jimmy Hanna. Long ago and far away.<
>
>But remembered with gusto, eh Scott? Back when Seattle had a soul for good
>sounds and nobody needed go to Eugene.  -JL

Though born and raised in FLA, Ray Charles came outta here. That is, he 
matured here, musically. So did Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, Jimi 
Hendrix, The Ventures (do they count as "soul"? They do to me.), and a host 
of others. We had a huge jazz scene centered around Jackson Street (there's 
a book about it) that both my parents were involved in. The town was 
heavily soulful; was it all the rainy days? (dream away...) I don't know, 
but it was something. Bonow came out of that scene with Jimi, Jimmy Hanna 
and Dave Lewis, and the grunge bands of the late fifties-early sixties. I'm 
old enough that I saw all these people back in the day except for Charles 
and Jones. My father told a story about driving up Jackson Street in the 
middle of the night, with none other than Ray Charles driving! What's all 
this got to do with organ? Not much. I imagine lots of big cities have 
their now-vanished musical legacies also. Minneapolis = Prince, The Time 
and Jimmy Jam, oh yeah! But that's the 80s, hardly ancient history.