User:Ggha~enwiki/André Penazzi (Brazilian Hammond Organist)

André Penazzi (Brazilian Hammond Organist)
André Penazzi was a great success in Brazil during the sixties playing a Hammond Organ with a unique style that he called Samba Jazz, accompanied by a group of percussionists.

Previosly to Penazzi, during the fifties and sixties Djalma Ferreira was a stablished Hammond Organist who had a Night Club called The Drink in Rio de Janeiro. He played with his Millonaires of Rythm, where Ed Lincoln played the piano.

Then Ed Lincoln started playing on his own the Hammond Organ and became a huge success.

During those years Walter van der Ley was very famous as well, playing piano, then Hammond Organ, started playing lounge boleros and then moved to the samba jazz movement that ended with the creation of Bossa Nova. He was part of that process with Joao and Astrud Gilberto.