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Jazz Organist Jimmy Smith

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Writings by Michael Erlewine

My Pick:
“Back at the Chicken Shack" on Blue Note

Hammond organist Jimmy Smith has made a lot of albums. Like many artists, his early material tends to be fresh and power-packed -- real burners. This is some of the finest soul jazz -- groove music -- ever made.

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Rosie Solomon - Campbell Chapel AME Church Organist, December 1957 Photographer: Duane Scheel

Rosie Solomon - Campbell Chapel AME Church Organist, December 1957 image
Year:
1957
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 31, 1957
Caption:
WILL RETIRE: Mrs. Rosie Solomon, organist of the Campbell Chapel AME Church in Whittaker for 35 years, will retire after 19 years of service with the Lincoln Consolidated School cafeteria at the end of the school year.
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Barbara Moore Plays Organ at Bethel AME Church, November 1975 Photographer: Jack Stubbs

Barbara Moore Plays Organ at Bethel AME Church, November 1975 image
Year:
1975
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 23, 1975
Caption:
CELEBRATION - Differences between predominantly black Protestant churches and other local churches are both superficial and profound. News' Religion Editor Glenn Gilbert takes a look in this series of stories. Above, Bethel AME Church organist Barbara Moore expresses joy during Sunday service. At right is the Rev. Emmett L. Green of Ann Arbor's Second Baptist Church.
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Mrs. A. F. Marriott

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Ann Arbor News, January 25, 1955
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25
Month
January
Year
1955
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Legacies Project Oral History: Ben Helmke

Ben Helmke grew up on a farm in Pratt County, Kansas in the 1930s. He served as an organist in the Army chaplain’s office at Camp Schimmelpfennig (now Camp Sendai) in Japan. Helmke graduated from Hastings College and McCormick Seminary and got his masters in social work from the University of Michigan. He and his wife Polly raised three children and he started his own mental health clinic. Late in life, he came out as gay to his wife and children. He lived happily with his partner Len Quenon for 25 years.

Ben Helmke was interviewed by students from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor in 2016 as part of the Legacies Project.

Elizabeth Ann Fawcett plays the organ at Trinity Lutheran Church, April 1950 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Elizabeth Ann Fawcett plays the organ at Trinity Lutheran Church, April 1950 image
Year:
1950
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 8, 1950
Caption:
Little Elizabeth Ann Fawcett of 1505 Anderson St., probably Ann Arbor's youngest organist, is seated before the electric organ at Trinity Lutheran Church where she will play tomorrow morning during special church school Easter services. She is only eight years old. (Story on page 11)
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