Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keyboard player Jon Lord performing with British rock group Deep Purple, circa 1975 - Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images We all ...

The Hammond B3 organ, a key element in the 1960s and '70s soul jazz sound, went out of production in 1975, forcing musicians to scrounge and save every bulky instrument, vacuum tube or part they could ...

Getting one Hammond B3 organ to a gig would seem to be hard enough. But B3 practitioners, particularly in the genre of jazz, like nothing better than setting up two of the unwieldy instruments -- ...

In recent years, Norway has produced a generation of young, innovative musicians, sonic explorers who are redefining the roles of their instruments—guitarists Stian Westerhus, Kim Myhr and Petter ...

If you were to paint a picture of today's contemporary music styles, it might be colored by synthesizers and samples. But musician Booker T. is still making modern music with his trusted Hammond B3 ...

Expressive, virtouoso and playful – words commonly used to describe the artistry of Swedish Hammond organ player Andreas Hellkvist. Rooted in the soul jazz tradition he has developed a unique style of ...

Instruments you play: My main instrument is and has always has been the Hammond B3 organ, but at a very early age I loved the drums. My father was a professional drummer so I always enjoyed playing ...

With the unbuttoned cuffs of his rumpled shirt brushing the strings of his guitar or the keys of his Hammond B3 organ, British rock legend Steve Winwood steered a gentlemanly, soul-infused set at the ...

Dr. Lonnie Smith, the Hammond B3 organ virtuoso whose work in jazz and funk was hugely influential, has died. According to a statement from Blue Note Records, his label, Smith died of pulmonary ...