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Hammond & Organ Blogs and Communities

Independent blogs, webzines and community sites covering the Hammond organ and jazz organ — from playing technique to collecting. Frequent ingestion targets for raw/articles/ (Reddit blocks scraping; prefer these).

Blogs and communities

  • organissimo.org — long-running jazz-organ forum and community (since 2001); primary source for player anecdotes and discography debates. Save threads under raw/forums/. https://www.organissimo.org/forum
  • JazzWax — Marc Myers' daily jazz blog (since 2007); jazz history and interview pieces, organ sessions included. https://www.jazzwax.com
  • JazzFuel — artist-management blog with jazz history and musician primers. https://www.jazzfuel.com
  • Vinyldiscovery — blog (vinyldiscovery.blogspot.com) digging into rare groove and organ-led records. https://vinyldiscovery.blogspot.com
  • Sound On Sound — UK recording magazine (web-first) with technical features on tonewheels, drawbars and Leslie simulation. https://www.soundonsound.com

Use in this wiki

Forum threads and blog interviews support pages such as jimmy-mcgriff, dr-lonnie-smith and korg-cx-3, and document the tonewheel-generator technology. Ingest verbatim into raw/articles/ (or raw/forums/) with provenance frontmatter.

  • TheatreOrgans.com Hammond FAQ — the vintage-Hammond community's service-shop directory (Europe/Americas): dealer and technician entries, from the 1990s onward. Primary source for chop-shops and regional organ service history. https://theatreorgans.com/hammond/faq/
  • hammondjazznight.de — Freiburg (Germany) event site documenting a "Bertram-Umbau" RT-3 with 22H Leslie (site parked at time of writing; text recovered from an indexed snippet). http://www.hammondjazznight.de/styled-3/index.html
  • https://www.organissimo.org/forum
  • https://www.jazzwax.com
  • https://www.soundonsound.com