Organ Cds That ARE NOT Greazzzzyyyy..

[marcello]

Frosty, the drummer:

Ticket from the Filmore East:

Edited August 26, 2005 by marcello

[rostasi]

Wow! Thanks for that!

Whattaguy!

[rostasi]

So, are we calling this greeeeeazzzy or not?

[.:.impossible]

I'm almost positive I saw Frosty this winter playing drums for a guy opening up for the Derek Trucks Band in Vail. I had never heard of him before, but he was a hell of a drummer and the guy he was playing for surely made it known that this dude's name was Frosty.

What's the story?

[JSngry]

I dunno, when I hear "Frosty", I think of either Burl Ives or Albert Collins. Anything else is off my radar...

[marcello]

Frosty Smith Edited August 26, 2005 by marcello

[.:.impossible]

Thanks Tom. Papa Mali was the act that he was drumming for. That's him alright!

[rostasi]

With a name like Bartholomew Frost Smith, I think I'd go with "Frosty" too.

Found him on a Butch Hancock album too, but don't know if it's the same "Frosty"

I don't know if there's really a "story" -

just a damn good drummer (who just happened to be huge).

I used to practice "that" drum solo over and over - it sounded so "composed"

and very well thought out, but still motivated by a funk/rock sensibility.

Kinda hard to describe really. Those were my favorite solos in those days -

ones that didn't give the apperance of showing off - well, too much anyway...

but it's kinda hard to explain how I could fit him in with Bennink and Altschul way back then,

but it seems that my drum teachers were OK with it anyway...

[rostasi]

WOW! Thanks for that!

I had no idea he was still around!

It probably came up in conversation

one time around the late 80's and I don't remember the source

who said he had died as a result of his weight...

Anyway, I gotta look at his site some more!

thanks!

[BFrank]

So, are we calling this greeeeeazzzy or not?

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Lee Michaels "greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeazzzy"?

Uh, no.

[rostasi]

Absolutely incredible!

I even have some of these albums!,

but never made the connection - even here in Texas!

[rostasi]

So, are we calling this greeeeeazzzy or not?

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Lee Michaels "greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeazzzy"?

Uh, no.

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OK, so we come full circle!

[marcello]

One last thing about Lee Michaels & Frosty:

That drum part was so hip and slick that I think when Frosty was gone.....so was Lee!

[rostasi]

I have to agree - the Columbia LPs just didn't live up to the A&M stuff.

[Guest akanalog]

i get POed re: love cry want because it seems to be labelled as "nicholas and gallivan". well in my opinon, it's larry young that makes the date. i mean i guess the other two guys are alive and they can use the cash and attention more than larry young (or jimmy molinari who i guess was not so essential and perhaps was never heard from again). but it seems like larry young gets short shrift in the labelling and recognition department.

[Jazz Kat]

[Soul Stream]

Barry "Frosty" Smith is the drummer for the organ trio I have with guitarist Denny Freeman. He's a bad mutha.

[mikeweil]

No grease here:

But plenty of acid anyway...

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I've somehow never heard of this. AMG gives it a RAVE.

Is it still in print?

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Click here!

[l p]

fats waller, sun ra.

i find it hard to accept most of the blue note 1960's/70's (and other labels - what the people on this board call 'greasy') organ oriented cd's as being jazz. seems more like plain soul music than anything else. played by more competent musicians, but it's rarely jazz.

[Matthew]

Pretty much anything recorded before JOS came onto the scene. Just listened to "The Vice Pres. and the organ playing on that cd is ice rink stuff, and Count Basie was doing some of the playing on it. Does jazz ever owe a dig THANK YOU to Smith for his genius.

[randyhersom]

Would the first disc of the Curtis Amy Mosaic Select qualify? I found the playing enjoyable, blues oriented in keeping with Curtis's style but quite different from the organ style I'm used to hearing.

[A Lark Ascending]

What is this obsession with grease? Y'all work in Kentucky Fried Chicken or what?

Three non-greasy...

Monty Python:

(though even less pleasant fluids come to mind with that picture)

And Keith...

Also this...

More candle wax than grease.

Edited August 28, 2005 by Bev Stapleton

[Jim Alfredson]

How would you like to be the "page turner / organ registration switcher"? I wonder if they get more props in classical circles than just regular page turners. Does one have to attend a special school to learn the art that is page turning and/or organ registration switching?

[A Lark Ascending]

I suspect you might get thrown out of the Organ Players Guild for referring to Messiaen as a page turner!

He probably has a ruler to hand (or being a devout Catholic, one of those whips with knots in it), ready to whack her across the knuckles for every wrong note.

[GregN]

Barry "Frosty" Smith is the drummer for the organ trio I have with guitarist Denny Freeman.  He's a bad mutha.

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Randy "Frosty" Marsh plays with organissimo. He is my favorite on the album...oh wait mixin' threads....sorry.