Keyboard player Jon Lord performing with British rock group Deep Purple, circa 1975 - Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images We all know the sounds of the mighty Hammond organ when we hear them, from the ...

For most people, it's just another musical instrument, but for some, the Hammond organ can be a way of life, a passion that will lead to entirely new ways of making music. This is no ordinary organ, ...

Musicians who play the Hammond B-3 — the electric organ found most often in jazz, soul and gospel — can forget about traveling light. The instrument weighs in at around 425 pounds and moving it is a ...

Emma Torncello didn’t think much of “I’m Lucky” when she first wrote the song. But when the 17-year-old Cohoes-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist showed the song to her father, Peter, ...

He can still remember the smell of his first Hammond B-3 organ. The smell of oil coating the spinning component of the internal Leslie speaker drifted into a 15-year-old Tony Monaco’s nostrils. Monaco ...