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 ...

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 ...

The Hammond organ is a prized instrument all over the world. The Tar Heel Traveler goes to north Raleigh to meet Bob Herrmann, who plays the Hammond and saves the Hammond.

Jimmy Smith, the reigning “Emperor of the Hammond Organ” who was widely credited with turning it from a novelty instrument in jazz to a legitimate option for keyboard players, has died. He was 76.

replicate that classic Hammond B3 sound, including the Viscount Legend Live Joey DeFrancesco Signature Organ. "That's an amazing instrument that doesn't weigh 400 pounds," Kocour says.

(SOUNDBITE OF HAMMOND ORGAN PLAYING) CHINEN: His father, "Papa" John DeFrancesco, who is still with us, was an accomplished organ player coming up. And so Joey learned firsthand.

Most of those mall stores were Lowery Organ. The story I’ve heard (NAMM) is Hammond had the market with the tonewheel design, and held it for 20+ years in mom and pop stores.

“A few years later, when we needed a Hammond organ sound on my album Madman Across the Water, I thought about it, then called Rick Wakeman,” he recalls. “That was the right thing to do, too ...

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