Because I'm playing organ on this tune, I want to let you in on the dirty little secret behind the Hammond B3 and its practitioners. You all know that the B3 has bass pedals, and when you listen to the great players - Jimmy Smith, Joey DeFrancesco, Dr. Lonnie Smith, our own RealTracks B3zilla Mike LeDonne - you hear that kickin' bass going on.

The fact is, except for occasional ballads, the aforementioned never go near the pedals even though they may be tapping them. In the video of Dr. Lonnie Smith, you see him at first really playing one note on the pedals, then you see him push the two pedal drawbars all the way in, turning them off. His left hand takes over the bass part. You'll see the left-hand bass in the next three videos:

(1) Dr. Lonnie Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Zopa63VBs

(2) Jimmy Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGLj45GMuog

(3) Joey DeFrancesco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaZbejCykig

However, there are at least two great B3 artists that really do play the pedals. The first is possibly Germany's greatest Jazz musician, Barbara Dennerlein. Watch her feet - with high heels, yet - dancin' on those pedals and try hard to believe your eyes:

(3) Barbara Dennerlein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ut7yIuCEY

Barbara is fairly young, but one of the real old-timers did it too. You must see this if only to see Milt Buckner define Jazz in just 11 words (1:38-1:47):

(4) Milt Buckner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjCg7o1quAQ

Now that we've straightened that out, left me confess that I play left-hand bass. There's one RealTrack here, provided by drummer Rickey Lawson. Yours truly on Latin percussion, horn arrangements, guitar.

OK, let the FUNK commence: BLUES FOR PAT, THE CAT WITH THE BLACK HAT https://soundcloud.com/aleckrand/blues-for-pat-the-cat-with-the