Jim Alfredson
Jim Alfredson
Lansing, MI
Jim Alfredson is perhaps best known as a Hammond organist, mostly in jazz and blues. His jazz trio, organissimo, formed in November of 2000 and continues to this day, releasing albums on Jim's own Big O Records label. In 1999, at the age of 22, he joined one of mid-Michigan's most revered blues bands, Root Doctor, and over the next 10 years helped produced three albums for them, writing songs and arrangements, before leaving in 2009. In 2010 he joined the international touring band for Los Angeles based blues artist Janiva Magness, leaving in late 2014. Beyond jazz and blues, Jim has always been interested in other forms of music, including ambient electronica and progressive rock. In 2009 he released his first album of electronic music called 'In Memorandom' and in 2015 under the name THEO he released an album of progressive rock called 'The Game of Ouroborus', available in stereo and 5.1 versions. Jim's first synthesizer was a Yamaha DX7, replaced by the updated Yamaha SY77 (which he still owns to this day). He enjoys both hardware and software synths, analog and digital, as well as Wurlitzer and Rhodes electric pianos, acoustic piano, and of course Hammond organs and Leslie speakers. Jim is endorsed by Hammond-Suzuki USA, CASIO Musical Instruments, NEO Instruments, and Lounsberry Pedals. He records and mixes with Steinberg Cubase and Steinberg / Yamaha interfaces.