In a final act of service, a Louisiana State Trooper who died after being struck during a high-speed chase in Hammond was taken to donate his organs so others may live. George Baker and another ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Organist Jimmy Smith, who helped change the sound of jazz by almost single-handedly introducing the electric riffs of the Hammond B-3 organ, has died at age 79 at his home in Scottsdale, ...

The Hammond organ is one of a handful of keyboard instruments that never go out of style. Though some think it only makes “one sound,” that sound has countless different hues due to drawbar ...

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 ...

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 ...