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Part I: All That Jazz: A Tour of the Basics
Due to its wailing sound and lethargic key action compared with piano, the
organ is particularly well suited to slower, bluesy jazz, and in fact, some of
the coolest organ music is blues.
The Hammond B-3, with its big, welling sound, was made famous by blues and
jazz players from Jimmy Smith to Barbara Dennerlein and Joey DeFrancesco.
Because the player needs to hold down a key to produce a sound (instead of a
short strike that produces sound on a piano), the organ requires a more fluid
technique and produces a more flowing sound than the piano. Because it’s
electric, an organ can sustain a note indefinitely; organs also have a variety of
built-in instrumental sounds and are often played through a spinning speaker
that adds a wavering vibrato. The B-3 has two keyboards, as well as foot
pedals for bass notes, which gives it even more range than a piano. While the
B-3 is the standard and its sound is synonymous with organ in blues and jazz,
keyboard players have used other models as well as synthesizers to create
organlike sounds.