The Hammond organ was a bit of an unsung hero among 20th-century rock songs, including these three legendary tracks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keyboard player Jon Lord performing with British rock group Deep Purple, circa 1975 - Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images We all ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. MARTIN: In the ...

Here’s a short film made by the Hammond Organ Company with the intent to educate and persuade potential consumers. Right away we are assured that Hammond organs are the cream of the crop for two ...

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, the author of the poetry collection “Rocket Fantastic,” is at work on a nonfiction book, “The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself.” She didn’t remember what she’d said, only that it had ...