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 – 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 have to ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Shirley Scott, one of the few women in jazz to fashion a successful career on the Hammond organ, died Sunday in Philadelphia. She was 67. Scott, in failing health in recent years with a series of ...
To the casual observer, the piano and organ are pretty similar. The keys are laid out the same, so the skills required to play each instrument are transferable, right? Not so, and if you don’t believe ...
MIDLAND, MI – Carrying Michael Brush's Hammond B-3 organ with its Leslie speaker still attached up a narrow stairway to Jim Fulkerson's second-floor music studio was probably the biggest challenge ...
I'm pretty sure this is the coolest thing we've ever done behind the Tiny Desk. There was a bit of furniture-moving and finagling, but when all the heavy lifting was done, there it was: A Hammond B3 ...
So-called “modern miracle” features a new modelled tonewheel engine and a new Leslie speaker emulation When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
If a professional pool-player were suddenly confronted with a table the size of a Ouija board which answered all his requirements, he would have been no more amazed than the professional musicians who ...
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