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 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 ...

For most people, it's just another musical instrument, but for some, the Hammond organ can be a way of life, a passion that will lead to entirely new ways of making music. This is no ordinary organ, ...

Musicians who play the Hammond B-3 — the electric organ found most often in jazz, soul and gospel — can forget about traveling light. The instrument weighs in at around 425 pounds and moving it is a ...

Beautifully equipped, semi-weighted two-manual organ. Organ simulations include B3, Farfisa, Vox and more. Equipped with four sets of drawbars – two per manual. Complete with rotary speaker ...

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, the author of the poetry collection “Rocket Fantastic,” is at work on a nonfiction book, “The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself.” ...