BRIAN AUGER
Genres: Classic Fusion, Soul Jazz, RnB, Jazz Related Rock, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Hard Bop • India

Born: July 18, 1939    Instrument: Organ, Hammond B3 For over forty years, Brian Auger has been a musician's musician. Jazz pianist, bandleader, session man, Hammond B3 innovator, and key player in the rise of jazz/rock fusion, Brian has done it all and then some. An incredible gentleman with one of the most varied careers in music, he has incorporated jazz, early British pop, R&B, soul and rock into an incredible catalog that has won him legions of fans all over the world. Auger's unique musical career started at a very early age. Growing up in London during World War II, his family's house had a player piano, and, at the age of three, ‘this thing fascinated me, with a pair of pedals. You put a piano roll in it, you pedaled, and, as you pedaled, paper was drawn across this grill, with corresponding holes it in for the 88 read more...