Organ trio
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An organ trio is a form of jazz ensemble consisting of three musicians: a Hammond organ player, a drummer, and either a jazz guitarist or a saxophonist. In some cases the saxophonist will join a trio
Jazz organist Jimmy Smith at a show in Italy in 1994; the sax and drumkit of the other trio members can be seen in this picture.
Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto 1978
Jazz organist Joey Defrancesco, pictured here in 2002, has recorded albums that recapture the "old school" organ trio sound of the 1960s.
The Medeski, Martin and Wood organ trio demonstrates that an organ trio can come in different varieties; in place of a sax or electric guitarist, this band has an upright bass player as the third member.
Hammond organ
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The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds
Organ trio
…An organ trio is a form of jazz ensemble consisting of three musicians: a Hammond organ player, a drummer, and either a jazz guitarist or a saxophonist. In some cases the saxophonist will join a trio which consists of an organist, guitarist…
A Hammond C-3 organ
The two manuals of the Hammond B-2
Unlike an American Guild of Organists pedalboard, a console Hammond normally has 25 pedals.
Preset keys on a Hammond organ are reverse-colored and sit to the left of the manuals