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.

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 ...

The Hammond organ and Leslie had forever changed black gospel music and it would never be the same. The passion, joy and earthy expressiveness of black gospel music were now joined with a rollicking ...

The venerable Hammond B-3 organ has been grinding its way through jazz, as well as gospel, rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll, since 1954. This book, a mix of biography, history and technology, tells ...

So every week, Sasser hauls his organ up to Bishops. Not only that, he also has to get the 150-pound Leslie speaker cabinet--which gives the Hammond its unique swirling sound--up to the third ...

The Hammond organ – it's heavy, it's hard to move, you basically become a lifelong van owner if you play one, and I've often said, "If your back doesn't hurt – it doesn't sound right." ...

You could put a bunch of speakers around, and you had the sound of this Hammond organ. And that was very popular. “But what we’ve got is really a throwback back to the theater organ days.

Jimmy Smith's new sound utilized the first three drawbars and the percussion feature of the Hammond B-3 model newly introduced in 1955. Jimmy cut the tremolo off and began playing horn lines with his ...