Hammond organ player Yeabsley presents original music inspired by North American jazz pianist Hampton Hawes. At eighteen Chris took up the piano and in spite of his relatively late start, he applied himself to mastering the instrument with the same passion and obsessiveness with which he had previously collected vintage suits and restored old Holdens. A Jimmy Smith record, played to Christopher by Joe Lindsay (now of Fat Freddy’s Drop), was an epiphany. The sound of Smith’s Hammond organ, the way he played bass lines on the instrument’s pedals while pumping chords and weaving melodies with his hands, determined the direction his career would take. Over five albums and countless gigs he has grown an audience throughout New Zealand and around the globe. ‘The Mariana Islands Turkey Shoot’ is Chris’s sixth CD, and finds his group laying out his usual persuasive grooves, while expanding into unexplored territories…