The venerable Hammond B-3 organ has been grinding its way through jazz, as well as gospel, rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll, since 1954. This book, a mix of biography, history and technology, tells ...

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 ...

For most people, it's just another musical instrument, but for some, the Hammond organ can be a way of life, a passion that will lead to entirely new ways of making music. This is no ordinary organ, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So-called “modern miracle” features a new modelled tonewheel engine and a new Leslie speaker emulation When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

These days, you could hardly be blamed if the tone of your voice when you say, “Wow, another clonewheel organ!” conveys irony rather than the excitement it may have a few years ago. We’ve come to the ...

Here’s a short film made by the Hammond Organ Company with the intent to educate and persuade potential consumers. Right away we are assured that Hammond organs are the cream of the crop for two ...

This goes back to Bach: if you want to change the sound an organ makes, you have to pull on some drawbars. This design didn’t change for 300 years, and in the 20th century with the advent of ...

ASPEN One of the bigger challenges for Steve Winwood is figuring out how to cram 40-plus years of music-making into the confines of a live set. A fair number of Winwood’s contemporaries have a surplus ...

Joey DeFrancesco, a driving force behind bringing the Hammond organ back into jazz music, died Thursday, his wife said on social media. He was 51. Gloria DeFrancesco posted news of his death on Friday ...