Known for her vast sonic palette, she made her mark playing with the saxophone master Lou Donaldson and also had a prolific solo career. By Alex Williams Akiko Tsuruga, a jazz virtuoso known for ...

KALAMAZOO -- After a dynamic one-hour show Friday at the Civic Theatre, it appeared that jazz organist Trudy Pitts was just warmed up. Pitts channeled Dorothy Donnegan and Jimmy Smith -- her ...

Few are the folks who could cast a literal shadow over the iconic Hammond B-3 organ, nicknamed "the Beast" by many of the jazz musicians who have helmed the hefty 425-pound instrument. But Reuben ...

René Marie, vocals: Friday, Sept. 1, 6 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 3, 8:30 p.m. Tia Fuller, saxophone: Friday, Sept. 1, 9:30 p.m. Akiko Tsuruga, B3 organ: Saturday, Sept ...

In celebration of Women's History Month, the American Jazz Museum is hosting the event Believe In: Women in Jazz. The fundraiser looks at some of jazz's biggest female artists and includes a ...

Some books give Smith's birthdate as Dec. 8, 1925, but more recent sources cite 1928 as his birth year. Regardless, the late musician always delivered the goods, even as the beats behind him changed.

NEW YORK — On a Sunday afternoon in February, the staccato chords and rousing bass lines of a Hammond B-3 organ shook the walls of American Legion Post 398 in Harlem. Ba-ba-doo-dee-dee-deep. Bum-ba-ba ...

This year’s Jazz @the Point Fest is dubbed the Jazz Organ Summit, and celebrates how the Hammond organ filtered its way into the annals of jazz from its 1930s roots primarily as a church instrument.