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 ...

Columbus, Ohio native Tony Monaco is primed and ready to place jazz organ in a whole new spotlight. Although he has been a playing musician for most of his life, it has been during the past sixteen ...

When we think of the organ in jazz, the first name that often comes to mind is the late, great Jimmy Smith, who, though by no means the first to place the instrument at the fore, helped popularize the ...

"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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jazz is taught at universities now, and artists like saxophonist Tim Warfield and trumpeter Terell Stafford teach at them. But they know that jazz is taught more through listening than reading; more ...