The Hammond organ has had a fascinating history in jazz. Fats Waller and Count Basie played it with great style and aplomb but it was not until many years later that the instrument caught on in a huge ...

Doley has been dubbed the “Jimi Hendrix of the Hammond organ.” He’s joined by drummer Jackie Barnes and Joel Burton in an energetic band that combines soul and blues. Lachy Doley performs during 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 ...

Jimmy Smith, the Philadelphia-born Hammond organ pioneer, who has died aged 76, generally approached his performances like a man who was certain he was in showbusiness, rather than art. Smith’s gigs ...

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.

For a span of several years in the 1960s, you couldn't walk through wide swaths of Philadelphia without hearing the burble of a Hammond B3 organ. The instrument came to embody a hip-hugging Philly ...