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FREMONT, Neb. — Clear, crisp musical notes filtered through the air as Claire Bushong played the new pipe organ at Sinai Lutheran Church. At one point, there was the sound of tinkling bells, later ...
Who's Mike Flanigin? Singer Kat Edmonson, executive producer of Flanigin's The Drifter, is happy to explain. "Apart from being really good and playing an instrument that's rarely played these days, he ...
Jazz pianist and now organist, Mike LeDonne, at the Hammond B-3. The Hammond B-3 organ was invented in 1935 by Laurens Hammond as a more modern adaptation of the original Telharmonium electronic organ ...
For most people, it's just another musical instrument, but for some, the Hammond organ can be a way of life, a passion that will lead to entirely new ways of making music. This is no ordinary organ, ...
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 ...
She takes the 21 steps up the narrow staircase to the balcony of Canoga Park Lutheran Church to perform one final song on the pipe organ she’s played almost every Sunday since the church opened in ...
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. Remembering Joey DeFrancesco, pioneering Hammond ...