Rarely has a jazz instrument been so completely redefined as the organ was at the hands of Jimmy Smith. In his wake, the Hammond B3 organ gained wide-spread popularity and attracted a suite of ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm TV critic David Bianculli. Reference books give the birth date of the great jazz organist Jimmy Smith as December 8, 1925, 100 years ago. More recent sources cite 1928 as ...

"Late Show With David Letterman." On this night, organist and band leader Paul Shafer had convinced his idol to sit in with the band, the man without whom his career wouldn't exist. To acknowledge him ...

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