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.

News Published: 19 June 1937 The Hammond Electric Organ Nature 139, 1043–1044 (1937) Cite this article ...

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.

And yet, there was one thing that Brown didn’t boast about: playing the Hammond B-3 organ. He loved that thing, maybe because he never could quite own it.

Hammond B-3X for iPad can be fine-tuned using IK's detailed models of the original settings, controls and circuits, which were all approved by the Hammond Organ Company. Users can employ tonal ...

(SOUNDBITE OF HAMMOND ORGAN PLAYING) CHINEN: His father, "Papa" John DeFrancesco, who is still with us, was an accomplished organ player coming up. And so Joey learned firsthand.

Tributes are pouring in for Lonnie Smith, the Hammond B-3 organ virtuoso who has died at the age of 79. The NEA Jazz Master of 2017 passed away in his home in Florida from pulmonary fibrosis, his ...

Fred C. Young, age 84, of Chicago, most recently of Crystal Lake, WWII Army Veteran, and valued 35 year employee of Hammond Organ Company of Chicago, beloved husband of the late Ebba V., nee Chells… ...