One of the most generous aspects of interviewing British-born Hammond B-3 organist and electric pianist Brian Auger—the toast of Swinging London’s soul-jazz scene and a musician who played with Tony Williams, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Sonny Boy Williamson, and more—is that you need not refer to his records to hear what they sound like. Auger does it all for you in real time by impersonating the wheeze and whirr of his Hammond, to say nothing of every other thwack of a drum or thrum of a bassline. Loudly.
To that cacophony, Auger—during what turned out to be one of the most pleasurable two hours of this journalist’s career—often added brash
