The influence of the Hammond
organ can be felt everywhere.
On any given radio station
there's a good chance you'll hear the B-3.
The Hammond is used
in all types of music, from Gospel, to Blues,
to Jazz, to Funk, to
Rock, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and
Yes. Keith
Emerson used to take
his B-3 and throw it around the stage, ride it
like a horse, set it
on fire, stab it.
Among the many
in jazz, funk, and rock are Richard "Groove"
Holmes, Jack
McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Joey and John DeFrancesco,
Shirley Scott,
Dr. Lonnie Smith, Larry Young, Don Patterson,
Paul Shaffer,
Don Pullen, Larry Goldings, 'Big' John Patton,
Booker T. Jones,
Billy Preston, Merl Saunders, Ray Manzerek, Jon Lord, Fats
Waller and more.
Hammond intended his invention to be a substitute for pipe organs, a
replacement for the piano
in middle-class homes, and for use by radio stations. However by the
1950s, jazz musicians such
as Jimmy Smith began to use the organ's distinctive sound. By the
1960s, the Hammond became
popular with pop groups and was used on the British pirate station
Radio 390. In Britain the organ
became associated with elevator music and ice rinks music. However, the
overdriven sound of the
Hammond
gained a new image when it became part of 1960's and 1970s rock with
artists
like Dave"Baby"
Cortez, Booker T Jones, Jon Lord, Rick Wright, Billy Preston, Steve
Winwood,
Ian
McLagan, Keith Emerson, and Rick Wakeman.
