Donald James Leslie, inventor and manufacturer of the Leslie speaker, which helped popularize the Hammond organ and contributed to the development of electronic music, has died. He was 93. Leslie died ...

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 ...

Hammond, Leslie, Cobbs & Smith. Do those names sound like a law firm? Actually, the first two men were inventors, the third was a man of the cloth and the fourth was a musician. Collectively, their ...

Donald James Leslie, who created and manufactured a speaker that refined the sound of the Hammond organ and helped popularize electronic music, died of natural causes September 2 in Altadena, Calif.

Bagley Downs — ReTails Thrift Shop received a unique donation this month when someone dropped off a Hammond B3 organ and a Leslie 145 speaker. Traditionally an instrument found in churches, the ...

Theaster Gates Exhibit at The New Museum New York City Features Shedrick Mitchell It's a journey for me - an hour and ten minutes journey - hearing the sound of the Leslies bouncing off the wall and ...

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 ...

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.

But the powerful, soulful sounds of the B-3 trumped its impracticality. There was no more versatile, expressive electric keyboard instrument made in the 1950s and 60s. And none was more capable of ...

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, January 27, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Driven by a conscious intent to dive deeper into the mental processes of Theaster Gates, always ...