Kjell Ohman / Arne Domnerus - The Hammond B-3 Connection [LP] [ 180g / 게이트폴드 ]
Arne Domnerus, Kjell Ohman 연주 | Opus3 / Opus3 | 2022년 12월 01일

음반소개
-Re-Mastering by Thomas Eberger at Stockholm Mastering & Jan-Eric Persson at Opus 3 Studio
-LP Cutting by Lupo at Calyx Recording in Berlin
-Gatefold jacket
-Printed in Germany

Kjell Ohman, Hammond B3 organ
Arne Domnerus, alto saxophone
Rune Gustafsson, guitar
Leif "Gus" Dahlberg, drums
Mads Vinding, upright bass

From Kjell Ohman:
"When this organ album of standards came to be planned, choosing the co-performers was the best of my problems!
Arne Domnerus - This was my long-awaited opportunity of making a recording with the Nestor of Swedish jazz. In the mellow sound of his alto sax, my own Hammond B3 Organ found the perfect companion.
Rune Gustafsson - We played together a good deal in the '60s and '70s, but mostly in studios, and since then we have seen far too little of each other. Rune, to my ears, is one of the really oustanding masters of his instrument!
Leif "Gus" Dahlberg - Good timing, empathy, dexterity of the brushes and a wonderful sense of fun are just a few things to be said about "Gus". We have played together quite a lot in the past 10 years, and I want to keep it that way.
Mads Vinding - A joyful reunion! We worked together a lot, in Svend Asmussen's Quartet, for a few years in the early 1970s. Mads is one of my favorite bass players!
I hope you will have at least half of the fun we did, making this recording for a couple of days at the end of March 1994."

Re-Mastering - The original two-channel recording was made by Jan-Eric Persson of Opus 3 Records fame in March 1994 using Agfa PEM 468 tapes which had been preserved in perfect condition. This optimum condition of storage becomes of particular importance when considering the relatively subtle but important improvements necessary to achieve the aims of the LP version which had earlier only been available on ordinary CD. Using the M/S-technique etc. in an unusual way gave the possibility of making the overall sound picture clearer, plus adding a slight reverb opened up the sound picture.

The Recording - The recording was made using Opus 3's esteemed AKG C-24 valve stereo-microphone adjusted to Blumlein crossed figure of eighths capturing the total sound picture. A Neumann U-89 was used as a support for the double bass and a vintage AKG C-414 TLII on Rune's Ibanez guitar. Everything was mixed into their custom made valve mixer feeding their Telefunken M-28, 2 channel tape recorder.

The Story: The Hammond B3 organ and the Leslie Speaker - Mr. Don Leslie started to develop "The Leslie Speaker" in 1937 and it went into production in 1940. However, Mr. Laruens Hammond did not like Mr. Leslie's invention with the result that Don Leslie was obliged to start his own company, Electro Music. - But where would the Hammond Organ be without the Leslie? Mr. Hammond had designed his organ to sound like a pipe organ and this was how the Hammond Organ was developed initially, but the advent of its use together with the Leslie speaker guided its use to create a completely different kind of music to that which is normally played on a pipe organ. During the 1960s non organists discovered the Leslie and started to use it with all kinds of music to achieve the unique sounds which could be created. For example listen to Eric Clapton's Leslie processed guitar solo in the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the White Album.

When asked about why the Leslie sounds like it does, they will probably start talking about the "Doppler effect"*. "I believe that how the Leslie speaker does what it does, is pretty much misunderstood," Leslie asserts. "There have been many explanations that don't include what is really happening. The way the Leslie works, in my opinion, is that it creates motion. We have two ears, and that lets you respect motion. That's why pipe organs sound so big without overwhelming you with volume. It does not have to hurt your ears. They generate this big feeling because of the constant changing of the source, and your ears respect that. The rotating horns in the Leslie speaker simulate that. They are constantly changing position so it relieves you of that fixed, rigid-position effect. Everyone describes it as the Dopplef effect, but they really don't understand what it is doing. there's a complex situation going on with moving speakers. When the speaker moves toward you, the pitch will be going up. At the same time, there's radiation going over a wall and reflecting back to you and that sound is going down in pitch. The Leslie creates a broad sound made up of an almost infinite number of frequencies from all of these changing reflections which are bounding off the walls."

*The Doppler effect, sometimes known as the Doppler shift, is the change in frequency or wavelength of a wave in relation to an observor who is moving relative to the wave source. It is named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who described the phenomenon in 1842. A common example of Doppler shift is the change of pitch heard when a vehicle sounding a horn approaches and recedes from an observor. Compared to the emitted frequency, the frequency is higher during the approach, identical at the instant of passing by, and lower during the recession.

Recording Equipment:
Microphones: AKG C-24 Vacuum tube stereo condensor, AKG C-414 TL II and Neumann U-89
Audio Console: Opus 3 Valve Electronics by Kjell Malmberg, AV-utveckling
Monitor Speakers: Totem Acoustics, Model One and Mani-2 Signature
LP 구매시 참고 사항 안내드립니다.
※ 재킷/구성품/포장 상태
1) 명백한 재생 불량 외에 경미한 재킷 주름, 모서리 눌림, 갈라짐 등은 반품/교환 대상이 아님을 양해 부탁드립니다.
2) 속지(이너 슬러브)는 디스크와의 접촉으로 인해 갈라질 수도 있는데, 이는 반품/교환 대상이 아닙니다.
3) 디스크 라벨은 공정상 매끄럽게 부착되지 않을 수도 있습니다.
4) 본품에 문제가 없는 겉포장 비닐의 손상은 교환/반품 대상이 아닙니다.

※ 재생 불량
1) 톤암 혹은 무게 조절 기능이 없는 턴테이블을 사용하시는 경우, (주로 올인원 형태 모델) 다이내믹 사운드의 편차가 큰 트랙을 재생할 때 튀는 현상이 발생할 수 있는데 이는 대부분 가벼운 톤암 무게가 원인입니다.
기기 문제로 인해 발생하는 재생 불량 현상에 대해서는 반품/교환이 불가하니 톤암 조절이 가능한 기기에서 재생하실 것을 권유 드립니다.
2) 디스크는 정전기와 먼지로 인해 재생이 원활하지 않은 경우가 있습니다. 전용 제품으로 이를 제거하면 대부분 해결됩니다.
3) 바늘에 먼지가 쌓이는 경우에도 재생이 원활하지 않을 수 있습니다.

※ 디스크 이상
1) 디스크 표면이 울렁거리거나 휘어지는 경우가 있습니다. 재생에 이상이 있는 경우에만 반품이나 교환이 가능합니다.
2) 재생 음역의 왜곡을 최소화 하고 반복 재생시에도 최대한 일관되게 유지되도록 디스크 센터 홀 구경이 작게 제작되는 경우가 있습니다. 턴테이블 스핀들에 맞지 않는 경우에는 전용 제품 등을 이용하여 센터 홀을 조정하시면 해결됩니다.
3) 간혹 디스크에 미세한 잔 흠집이 남아있거나 마감이 깨끗하지 않은 경우가 있습니다. 재생에 이상이 있는 경우에만 반품이나 교환이 가능합니다.

※ 컬러 디스크
아래에 해당하는 경우는 불량이 아니므로 반품 및 교환은 불가하오니, 구매시 참고를 부탁드립니다.

1) 컬러 디스크는 웹 이미지와 실제 색상이 차이가 날 수 있습니다.
2) 컬러 디스크의 특성상 제작 공정시 앨범마다 색상 차이가 나는 경우도 있습니다.
3) 컬러 디스크는 제작 과정에서 다른 색상 염료가 섞여 얼룩과 번짐, 반점 등이 발생할 수 있습니다.

※ 교환/반품 안내
1) 명백한 불량으로 인한 교환/반품 요청 시에는 불량 내역을 확인할 수 있는 사진 및 동영상과 재생기기 모델명을 첨부하여 고객센터에 문의 바랍니다.
2) LP는 잦은 배송 과정에서 재킷에 손상이 발생할 가능성이 높고 재판매가 어려우므로 오구매, 변심으로 인한 반품은 어렵습니다. 신중한 구매를 부탁드립니다.
디스크
Disc
A1
Summerwind
A2
The Favour Of The Fool
A3
9.20 Special
A4
Stardust
A5
I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
B1
Crazy Rhythm
B2
Swing House
B3
Secret Love
B4
Blues Opus 3
B5
Stockholm Sweetnin'