Dr Lonnie Smith – review

Ronnie Scott's, LondonThe Hammond organ generates in equal amounts ecstatic thrills and a flood of cliches, but despite early absorption in the instrument's most famous and much-recycled qualities – full-on blues, gospel and R&B-fuelled grooving – Dr Lonnie Smith remains remarkably cliche-free, even after five decades in the game. As he demonstrated at Ronnie Scott's, he retains an appetite for surprise and an openness to new input, such as the original thinking of his young New York trio pa...

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