Dan Fogel

Solidly in the line of the great Hammond B-3 jazz players like Jimmy Smith, Groove Holmes, Jimmy McGriff, and Wild Bill Davis who emerged in the 1950s, Dan Fogel caught the B-3 bug early. Born June 21, 1948, in Atlantic City, NJ, Fogel could lay claim to being Jackie Gleason's second cousin and his aunt, Helen Forrest, was a big-band singer who worked with Benny Goodman, Harry James, and Artie Shaw, among others. Fogel found an opportune job shining shoes in front of the legendary Club Harlem when he was only seven years old, and he couldn't help but soak up the music -- mostl...