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 ...

Hammond, Leslie, Cobbs & Smith. Do those names sound like a law firm? Actually, the first two men were inventors, the third was a man of the cloth and the fourth was a musician. Collectively, their ...

Few are the folks who could cast a literal shadow over the iconic Hammond B-3 organ, nicknamed "the Beast" by many of the jazz musicians who have helmed the hefty 425-pound instrument. But Reuben ...

THE development of the loud-speaker, and more especially the demonstration of its capability of reproducing all types of music in connexion with the projection of the talking film in the cinemas, has ...

After dark, along the endless industrial stretch of San Fernando Road in Glendale, pretty much all you’ll hear is traffic. But on Tuesday nights, there’s another sound. “The Hammond organ is very ...

Dr. Lonnie Smith, an NEA Jazz Master known for his dynamism and wizardry on the Hammond B3 organ, died Tuesday. He was 79 years old. His death was confirmed on Twitter by Blue Note Records. A ...