Walking a Harlem block with Dr. Lonnie Smith was always—like his stage show—a predictably unpredictable cadenza of zigs and zags, a herky-jerky check-in with the pulse of the people. Particularly if ...

Locally-based Hammond organist Kris Yunker will host the second installment in his series of "Funk Nights" at the Stone Church in Brattleboro Wednesday at 8 p.m. Yunker, who has played in various ...

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 ...

Master of the Hammond B-3 organ, Cory Henry gathers The Funk Apostles to sing “…We all need to look at history / What we’ll find is, that it’s repeating uh huh / It won’t change ‘til, we all come ...

The Hammond Organ. Ask anyone who has played one on the club scene and they'll tell you horror stories about jacking the B3 up fire escapes or removing doorframes; not to mention the instrument's ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- The SFJAZZ Center will host a celebration of the Hammond B-3 organ this weekend, spotlighting such virtuoso keyboard talents as Joey DeFrancesco, Ronnie Foster and Reuben ...

Tributes are pouring in for Lonnie Smith, the Hammond B-3 organ virtuoso who has died at the age of 79. The NEA Jazz Master of 2017 passed away in his home in Florida from pulmonary fibrosis, his ...

To the casual observer, the piano and organ are pretty similar. The keys are laid out the same, so the skills required to play each instrument are transferable, right? Not so, and if you don’t believe ...

Cory Henry, a three-time Grammy Award winner as a member of jazz-fusion band Snarky Puppy, is embracing a new era with a group billed as Cory Henry & the Funk Apostles. The Indy Jazz Fest performer ...

There's so much joy in the sound of the Hammond organ, especially for those of us of a certain age. Hearing it can transport you to the early '70s, when every rock band seemed to have one in its ...

For a span of several years in the 1960s, you couldn't walk through wide swaths of Philadelphia without hearing the burble of a Hammond B3 organ. The instrument came to embody a hip-hugging Philly ...