The great bassist-singer and former Cream frontman would've turned 83 last week. We revisit his amazing career.

In the final Part V of my appreciation of the Hulking 300 lb. Beast, I take a look at pioneers like Fats Waller, Count Basie and Wild Bill Davis along with modernist renegades Larry Young and John Medeski

Here's the story of how the great Hammond B-3 organist, who is neither a doctor nor a sikh, came to adopt his turban and honorific while burning up the keyboard like few others.