The B3 dates to the 1950s, and it has become an object of fascination for a select group of music lovers. Only about 100,000 Hammond B3 organs were built (in 2002, the company rolled out a replica).

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 now classic Hammond B3 model (and its even larger relation the C3) arrived in 1954, a 425lb beast that needs to be regularly maintained with oil top-ups.

Hammond B3 specialist Jermaine Landsberger and fellow German, guitarist Paulo Morello, have played together for over a decade, since their first gig in 1990 in the village of Maxhutte, Bavaria, where ...

replicate that classic Hammond B3 sound, including the Viscount Legend Live Joey DeFrancesco Signature Organ. "That's an amazing instrument that doesn't weigh 400 pounds," Kocour says.

Considering that the Hammond Organ Company built the last B-3 organ some four decades ago, the unwieldy-but-sweet-sounding instrument is enjoying something of a moment in the Bay Area’s jazz scene.

I moved my personal Hammond B-3, the one I'd bought in 1971, to the Gallery last October. I wanted to have a great instrument for myself and Dr. James Polk to play and also have younger musicians ...

Booker T. Jones — master of the Hammond B3 organ — is a producer, composer, arranger and Grammy-Award-winning artist who plays multiple instruments.

Chicago-based B3 jazz organist Chris Foreman and drummer Greg Rockingham began playing jazz together some 35 years ago. They’ve now turned their attention to a new group, Soul Message Band ...

Please tell me I’m not the only person who has received mail sent to “Columbus,” Mo. And Columbus is the place a number of the best modern Hammond B-3 jazz organists call home.