Jazz at the Orbit Room

“The Dexters”
Lou Pomanti - Hammond B3 organ
Bernie LaBarge – guitar, vocals
Peter Cardinali – bass.
Greg Critchley – drums
Saturday, May 9, 3 sets between 9:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m.
Tickets: $10 at the door
The Orbit Room
580A College St. (Upstairs) Directions

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The Dexter's were the original house band for the Orbit Room, playing at the club for ten years until their semi-retirement in 2004.

The Hammond organ is an electric organ which was invented by Laurens in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard keyboard instrument for jazz, blues, rock music and gospel music.

Although many different models of Hammond organs were produced, the Hammond B-3 organ is the most well-known type. In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, the overdriven sound of B-3 (and in Europe, the C-3) organs were widely used in progressive rock bands and blues-rock groups. Although the last electromechanical Hammond organ came off the assembly line in the mid-1970s, thousands are still in daily use.