Jazz great and master of the Hammond B3, Dr. Lonnie Smith was just named as one of the the NEA’s 2017 Jazz Masters — the nation’s highest honor in jazz — and, along with his Trio, played the Kumble ...

Legendary organist Dr. Lonnie Smith has passed away at 79 years old. NPR reports: Dr. Lonnie Smith, an NEA Jazz Master known for his dynamism and wizardry on the Hammond B3 organ, died Tuesday. He was ...

Tributes are pouring in for Lonnie Smith, the Hammond B-3 organ virtuoso who has died at the age of 79. The NEA Jazz Master of 2017 passed away in his home in Florida from pulmonary fibrosis, his ...

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The great master of the Hammond B3 organ, Dr. Lonnie Smith, passed away in September 2021 at 79. Smith enjoyed a more than 50-year career at the vanguard of soul jazz. His influence extended far ...

Walking a Harlem block with Dr. Lonnie Smith was always—like his stage show—a predictably unpredictable cadenza of zigs and zags, a herky-jerky check-in with the pulse of the people. Particularly if ...

Dr. Lonnie Smith, the Hammond B3 organ virtuoso whose work in jazz and funk was hugely influential, has died. According to a statement from Blue Note Records, his label, Smith died of pulmonary ...

Dr. Lonnie Smith passed away from pulmonary fibrosis in his home in Florida on Sept. 28, his label Blue Note Records confirmed. He was 79-years-old. “We’re deeply saddened to announce that Hammond B3 ...

An authentic master and guru of the Hammond B-3 organ for over five decades, Dr. Lonnie Smith has been featured on over seventy albums, and has recorded and performed with a virtual “Who’s Who” of the ...

Dr. Lonnie Smith, an NEA Jazz Master known for his dynamism and wizardry on the Hammond B3 organ, died Tuesday. He was 79 years old. His death was confirmed on Twitter by Blue Note Records. A ...

Dr. Lonnie Smith, an influential American organ player and member of the George Benson quartet in the 1960s, died this week at the age of 79. And nobody rocked it harder than musician Lonnie Smith. He ...

The Hammond organ makes a singular jazz sound. And nobody rocked it harder than musician Lonnie Smith. He died this week at the age of 79 after a music career that spanned decades and inspired a new ...