And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: January 11th, 1895, 120 years ago today . . . a noteworthy date by any measure. For that was the day Laurens Hammond was born in Evanston, Ill. A ...
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 ...
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 ...