And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: January 11th, 1895, 120 years ago today . . . a noteworthy date by any measure. For that was the day Laurens Hammond was born in Evanston, Ill. A ...

The Hammond organ – it's heavy, it's hard to move, you basically become a lifelong van owner if you play one, and I've often said, "If your back doesn't hurt – it doesn't sound right." But I have to ...

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 ...

The sound of the Hammond organ was invented for churches as an alternative to pipe organs. But it's distinctive sound became crucial to the development of a new kind of music: gospel. MARTIN: In the ...

Musicians who play the Hammond B-3 — the electric organ found most often in jazz, soul and gospel — can forget about traveling light. The instrument weighs in at around 425 pounds and moving it is a ...

Jimmy Smith, an award-winning jazz organist who was considered a pioneer with the instrument, died of natural causes at home on Tuesday. He was 79. Born in Norristown, Pa., in 1925, Mr. Smith ruled ...