We all know the sounds of the mighty Hammond organ when we hear them, from the ghostly sorrow and majesty of Procol Harum’s Whiter Shade of Pale to the bubbling glide and splash of Booker T and ...

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 Wilson over the course of ...

The Hammond organ was built as a "portable and affordable alternative" for the pipe organ, some nomenclature comes from the pipe organ language. The keyboards, also called Manuals (Upper, Lower and ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Instead, he was left to wonder about retirement, as Hammond organ gigs vanished, synthesizers became tech royalty, DJs dealt disco hits, and rappers grabbed the mic into the 1980s and '90s.

The Hammond organ was a fluke invention by a clockmaker in 1935 and became a lower-cost alternative to the pipe organ. Its heyday in popular music began in the 1950s, and it remained hot through the ...