[HAM] A hammond vacation

[David Damroze]

On Jul 9, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Scott Hawthorn wrote:

> 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.
>
  Well, as, long as we're reminiscing :

http://metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12036

  I was too young to see most of these folks, but, it's what I grew up 
hearing.
    And , in spite of , or maybe because of , it's many challenges, 
Detroit IS STILL
  a great music town.

  David D.
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