This year's Savannah Jazz Festival will present a documentary about a little organ with a mighty sound. "Killer B3: A Documentary About The Hammond Organ," directed and written by Murv Seymour, will ...

It growls. It purrs. To many ears, the Hammond B3 organ seems alive, like some sort of rare animal. Nashville-based session musician Moe Denham has tamed the beast over decades as a sideman to some of ...

Getting one Hammond B3 organ to a gig would seem to be hard enough. But B3 practitioners, particularly in the genre of jazz, like nothing better than setting up two of the unwieldy instruments -- ...

Two very different jazz traditions — the classic big band and the organ trio — will meet next Saturday when bandleader Bill Warfield combines his namesake big band with a Hammond B3 organist, Gene ...

The Hammond B3, the predecessor to the synthesizer, was popular in the 1950s and ’60s. Some of its first customers were black churches, which saw the organ as a substitute for a pricier pipe organ.

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, ...

I'm pretty sure this is the coolest thing we've ever done behind the Tiny Desk. There was a bit of furniture-moving and finagling, but when all the heavy lifting was done, there it was: A Hammond 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, ...