This year’s Savannah-Safe Jazz Festival is welcoming the return of B-3 Hammond master Pat Bianchi, who appeared with jazz guitar icon Pat Martino several years ago. Bianchi is a Grammy Award nominated ...

To the casual observer, the piano and organ are pretty similar. The keys are laid out the same, so the skills required to play each instrument are transferable, right? Not so, and if you don’t believe ...

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 ...

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." But I have to ...

The Hammond organ seems to inspire not just loyalty amongst the musicians who play it, but also a spirit of camaraderie. “It’s not joining the Elks or the Moose Lodge or something, but it is a ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with music critic Nate Chinen about the legacy of iconic jazz Hammond organ player Joey DeFrancesco, who died on Thursday. The jazz world has lost its preeminent specialist of ...