Brian Auger

BRIAN AUGER
 
 
Brian Auger  (born 18 July 1939 in Hammersmith London) is an English jazz and rock keyboardist, who has specialised in playing the Hammond organ.  A jazz pianist, bandleader, session musician and Hammond B3 player, Auger has played or toured with artists such as Rod Stewart, Tony Williams, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Sonny Boy Williamson, Led Zeppelin, Eric Burdon and others.  He has incorporated jazz, early British pop, R&B, soul music and rock, and he has been nominated for a Grammy.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

After Don Shinn contracted tuberculosis in July 1965, Rod Stewart left the Soul Agents and joined a “supergroup” called Steampacket that was formed by Long John Baldry with organist Brian Auger and vocalist Julie Driscoll, who had previously recorded together as part of Brian Auger and the Trinity.  

 

(May 2014)

 

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Pick Withers’ replacement in the Primitives, Robbie McIntosh had been playing with Brian Auger in Italy.  McIntosh is from Scotland and later turned up in the Scottish band Average White Band, who had a million-selling hit in 1974 with “Pick up the Pieces”.   

 

(May 2015)