Backgrounder: Jimmy McGriff - 'Step 1'

Philadelphian Jimmy McGriff began as a pianist but fell in love with the organ after hearing Richard "Groove" Holmes play the Hammond B3 at his sister's wedding. He bought his first organ in 1956, spent six months at New York's Juilliard School of Music and then studied the organ privately with Milt Buckner, Jimmy Smith and Sonny Gatewood. He began lead…