Keyboard player Jon Lord performing with British rock group Deep Purple, circa 1975 - Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images We all know the sounds of the mighty Hammond organ when we hear them, from the ...

TAMPA , Fla. – A seven-year labor of love, “Killer B3” features some of the greatest Hammond organists in the U.S. Three have died since the project began, most notable among them the king of the B3, ...

Dr. Lonnie Smith, a renowned jazz organist whose performances were marked by deep soulfulness and flourishes of theatricality highlighted by his distinctive wardrobe of turbans, tunics and jewelry, ...

A friend of mine who plays keyboards has just discoverd the mean and lowdown world of the Hammond - primarily by listening to early Charlatans. I want to turn her on to some more stuff cos I think she ...

Considering that the Hammond Organ Company built the last B-3 organ some four decades ago, the unwieldy-but-sweet-sounding instrument is enjoying something of a moment in the Bay Area’s jazz scene.

Dural’s venerable keyboard playing stands up to anyone playing the B3 today -- whether it’s the wailing blues of Buck Goes Downtown," the jazzy tour de force Jimmy Smith tribute Buck Goes Uptown," or ...

Croton-on-Hudson jazz master Paul Connors is raising the roof and lifting spirits from an otherwise humble Ossining parking lot. The Hammond B3 organ bespeaks Americana, from ballpark to church, smoky ...