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 ...

All About Jazz Organ: Inside the Hammond B-3 article by Daniel Latorre, published on May 16, 2023 at All About Jazz. Find more Profile articles ...

Along with its signature counterpart, the spinning Leslie speaker, the unwieldy-yet-soulful Hammond B-3 organ makes a resurgence in the Bay Area jazz scene.

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 ...

The new M-solo, though, is cut from different cloth (and significantly less of it, too). The M-Solo is said to be in the spirit of the previous Hammond M and L series models, which were themselves ...

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.