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.

PATTERSON CREEK, W.Va. — Leitersburg resident Wally McClure got his start playing church music at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Patterson Creek in the mid- to late 1960s under the auspices of ...

FREMONT, Neb. — Clear, crisp musical notes filtered through the air as Claire Bushong played the new pipe organ at Sinai Lutheran Church. At one point, there was the sound of tinkling bells, later ...

Sunday afternoon sunlight filters through stained-glass windows, casting the interior of this brick St. Paul church in a soft glow. Besides some friendly chitchat, everything is quiet inside UNITY ...