Drinks and refreshments provided by Treasure Island Yacht Club. The Treasure Island Museum and the Treasure Island Yacht Club are proud to present another concert of Hammond organ music performed by ...

Jazz Times once hailed Joey DeFrancesco as "the best B3 player on the planet." For obvious reasons. DeFrancesco died Thursday. He was 51. His label Mack Avenue confirmed the news on its website and ...

Who's Mike Flanigin? Singer Kat Edmonson, executive producer of Flanigin's The Drifter, is happy to explain. "Apart from being really good and playing an instrument that's rarely played these days, he ...

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 ...

I have received five grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the following years 2012 - $200,749.00; 2014 - 179,985.00; 2015 - 177,917; 2016 - 179,800. The enslaved Africans who first ...

Eighty years ago American engineer Laurens Hammond bought a used piano, took it apart and began experimenting with various sound generating methods. The results gave birth to a new type of organ that ...

Tori Amos packed lightly for her "Original Sinsuality Tour." The songstress is supporting her latest record, the religiously themed "The Beekeeper," with an intimate solo acoustic tour. When she plays ...

The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony of Virginia in 1619 after being forcefully removed from their natural environments left much behind, but their rhythms associated with ...

The jazz world has lost its preeminent specialist of the Hammond organ. Joey DeFrancesco turned heads for decades, starting with his major label debut at age 17. (SOUNDBITE OF HAMMOND ORGAN PLAYING) ...

Rooted in a hybrid of jazz, blues, funk, and soul, the live recording from Dan Moretti and the Hammond Boys taped at Chan's Jazz Club fashions a signature sound honed from boogie woogie grooves and ...

This year’s Savannah-Safe Jazz Festival is welcoming the return of B-3 Hammond master Pat Bianchi, who appeared with jazz guitar icon Pat Martino several years ago. Bianchi is a Grammy Award nominated ...