Turban-wearing American organist who enjoyed popular success playing with some of the US's jazz greats Few Hammond organ players induce the bar staff of jazz clubs to stop clinking bottles for fear of puncturing a sonic mood of almost inaudible fragility - the ingenious Hammond B3s having started life in the 1930s as portable righteousness-rousing props for holy-rolling preachers on the road - but achieving that effect by dropping his roaring instrument's volume to a whisper was all in a night's...
Turban-wearing American organist who enjoyed popular success playing with some of the US's jazz greats Few Hammond organ players induce the bar staff of jazz clubs to stop clinking bottles for fear of puncturing a sonic mood of almost inaudible fragility - the ingenious Hammond B3s having started life in the 1930s as portable righteousness-rousing props for holy-rolling preachers on the road - but achieving that effect by dropping his roaring instrument's volume to a whisper was all in a night's...
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