Unlike chocolate and peanut butter, Dixieland jazz and theater organ music aren't two things that would seem to go great together. However, that kind of thinking ignores their shared historical roots ...

Chris Hazelton at the organ, with members of Boogaloo 7. The Hammond B-3 organ is one of the most recognizable sounds in American music. Kansas City musician Chris Hazelton plays that instrument on ...

"These are some guys that are taking the Hammond B3 organ to kind of different places, but his is a groovin', soulful, bluesy, funky sound. It's kind of greasy, you know? And it tastes really good." ...

The Hammond electronic organ was developed with churches in mind, as a lower-cost alternative to pipe organs. But in Philadelphia, a keyboard player named Jimmy Smith was inspired by early jazz ...

Hammond, Leslie, Cobbs & Smith. Do those names sound like a law firm? Actually, the first two men were inventors, the third was a man of the cloth and the fourth was a musician. Collectively, their ...

LOS ANGELES -- Organist Jimmy Smith, who helped change the sound of jazz by almost single-handedly introducing the electric riffs of the Hammond B-3 organ, has died at age 79 at his home in Scottsdale ...

For a span of several years in the 1960s, you couldn't walk through wide swaths of Philadelphia without hearing the burble of a Hammond B3 organ. The instrument came to embody a hip-hugging Philly ...

A native of Reading, Pennsylvania, Greg Hatza’s musical instincts came to him as early and as naturally as the ability to walk, and he was picking out blues and boogie woogie tunes on the piano around ...