No Rain in New York City Monday – it’s safe to break out your accordions in Times Square today folks
- Jon Hammond photo by the great Jazz photographer Elmar Lemes with custom built Excelsior Accordion with Sennheiser pickup system http://www.accordionradio.com/ — with Jon Hammond Band and Excelsior Accordions at Times Square NYC
Jon Hammond’s well-traveled Hammond organ on display in window of Sam Ash Music Store
Jon Hammond and the Late Rent Session Men with Bernard Purdie at 760 Columbus Ave. Mikell’s – as seen on The Jon Hammond Show MCTV MNN TV http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151348320152102
The Ultimate Soul-Blues-Funk perfomance by Jon Hammond and the Late Rent Session Men – Combo All-Stars BERNARD PURDIE drums, Alex Foster sax, Chuggy Carter percussion, Barry Finnerty guitar, and fearless Leader JON HAMMOND B3 Organ/Bass
Roy Meriwether and Bernard Purdie at Local 802 Club Room
- Jon Hammond — with Roy Meriwether, Bernard Purdie
at legendary NY night spot MIKELL’S Aug. 28 1989 playing Jon’s composition “No X-Cess Baggage Blues” segued spontaneously in to “Mercy Mercy Mercy”! This historic film documents the explosive rhythm section of Purdie & Chuggy Leslie J. Carter kicking the front line of Alex Foster (Saturday Night Live Band), Barry Finnerty guitar & Jon Hammond, Host/Producer of NY late night TV show The Jon Hammond Show – now in 29th year – shot by Joe Berger on Jon’s Panasonic PV-430D camcorder http://www.jonhammondband.com/
Sunday Dinner in the Diner
with Gary Gordon, Kelly Jarrell Gordon, Michael Mwenso JALC colleague of Jason Olaine and Jon Hammond
Gary Gordon & Gary’s wife Kelly Jarrell of The Bittersweet (James Brown background vocal group), Jon Hammond, Bernard Purdie (former James Brown band member plus too much to name, volumes!), and Mr. Danny Ray over 40 years James Brown’s personal valet and master of ceremonies — with Gary Gordon, Kelly Jarrell,
Musikmesse 2013 Jon Hammond Celebrates 27 years Musikmesse Warm Up Party April 9 Dienstag Tuesday Night Jazzkeller Frankfurt and 60th
Birthday
Special Thanks Dankeschön Saray Pastanesi Bäckerei & Konditorei makes Jon Hammond’s custom Chocolate Chocolate Cake
Happy 60th Birthday Jon Hammond in Jazzkeller Frankfurt Musikmesse Warm Up Party !
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“The FINGERS…are the SINGERS!”
Musikmesse “Warm Up Party” Jon Hammond & Band
Jon Hammond (aus New York City) – organ
Joe Berger – guitar
Tony Lakatos – saxophone
Giovanni Gulino – drums
Mr. Hammond has toured worldwide since 1991 using the incredible Sk1 organ by Hammond Suzuki..™ “Classic Hammond Sound…In A Suitcase!”
The Jon Hammond Show is a funky swinging instrumental revue, featuring top international soloists. The show has universal appeal. Big Hammond orgel sound – 100% organic jonhammondband.com/music
These great black and white photos of Jon Hammond Band were shot by the great photographer Joachim Hildebrand Musikmesse Warm Up Party – on the band: Tony Lakatos tenor sax,
Chocolate on Chocolate Cake Musikmesse Warm Up Party in Jazzkeller Frankfurt with Jon Hammond Band and special guests for this special occasion celebrating 25 years in Musikmesse.
Special acknowledgement of Wilhelm P. “Charly” Hosenseidl R.I.P. who was the Director of Musikmesse years 1989-2008 now Directed by Wolfgang Luecke, special thanks to Messe Frankfurt Projekt and Presse Team
Special Thanks to Thomas Eich TecAmp Fine Sounding 2 x 12 Neodymium Rig Powering Hammond Organ:
Jon Hammond’s annual Musikmesse Warm Up Party in Jazzkeller Frankfurt the night before Musikmesse kicks off
The Tradition Continues! 18th Year Musikmesse-Session – Wir Sehen Uns, ab 12 April Freitag Abend – Jon Hammond Band
21:00UHR
- Jazzkeller-Hofheim -
Joe Berger guitar
Peter Klohmann tenor sax
Totó Giovanni Gulino schlagzeug
Jon Hammond orgel
Youtube http://youtu.be/4JtoWjSFow0
Jon Hammond’s annual Musikmesse-Session in Jazzkeller Hofheim, here paying tribute to Jimi Hendrix covering Little Wing
with Joe Berger guitar, Giovanni Gulino drums, Peter Klohmann tenor sax, Jon Hammond on Sk1 Hammond organ
*Note: When Jon Hammond was younger playing electric accordion he was known as The Jimi Hendrix of The Accordion,
see image 1971 age 18 http://www.accordionradio.com
P.Mauriat Go For The Sound Sunday Blues Session NAMM Show *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: PMauriat NAMM Jam Sunday Blues Session Thanks to all the fine players who joined us on this fun session at P.Mauriat NAMM Stand in the final hours of the last day Sunday , we get the blues – like the end of summer camp, say goodbye until next year and hopefully we’ll see some of you in Frankfurt Musikmesse! > Jon Hammond at the Sk1 organ with great players Greg Osby alto, Juan Alzate tenor, Willie Bradley trumpet, Jason Palmer trumpet, Tim Green alto, Alejandro Chiabrando tenor and more – special thanks Alex Mingmann Hsieh, Yao Shake, Agnieszka Obrebska and all Team P.Mauriat, Jim Wischmeyer Bag End Powered Speakers – see you next year at NAMM 2014, go for the sound! Jon Hammond http://archive.org/details/JonHammondPMauriatNAMMJamSundayBluesSession/ < Blip TV http://blip.tv/jon-hammond/pmauriat-namm-jam-sunday-blues-session-6521463
Youtube http://youtu.be/HefVEehpg30 P.Mauriat, Go For The Sound, Sunday Blues Session, Saxophones, Trumpets, Organ, NAMM Jam, Anaheim *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: The Sound The Soul The Summit Ultimate Hammond All-Star Jam Jon Hammond and Dr. Lonnie Smith at Winter NAMM 2013 new slogan “The Sound, The Soul, The One” and a “neo-retro” look – forego the imposters and say “Make Mine Hammond” http://archive.org/details/JonHammondTheSoundTheSoulTheSummitUltimateHammondAll-StarJam/ Kicking it off in the Hilton Anaheim Lobby at Winter NAMM 2013 on the first ever Hammond Organ night – Introduced by Master of Ceremonies Scott May: Dr. Lonnie Smith, Chester Thompson, Larry Goldings with Jay Dittamo drums, Jack Maher guitar – mix by Denny Mack. Jon Hammond Band playing “Late Rent” theme song of The Jon Hammond Show TV program. On Jon’s band: Donny Baldwin drums (from Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, Jefferson Starship), Alex Budman tenor saxophone, Joe Berger guitar and Jon Hammond at the New B3 Portable Organ. http://www.HammondCast.com Special thanks Hammond Suzuki USA, Peter Nguyen, NAMM and Hilton Hotel Anaheim Peter Nguyen and Jon Hammond Blip TV http://blip.tv/jon-hammond/the-sound-the-soul-the-summit-ultimate-hammond-all-star-jam-6520933
Youtube http://youtu.be/IQakXA_czpc Photo of Doctor Lonnie Smith at the Hammond Sk2 by Jon Hammond Denny Mack and Scott May – photo: Jon Hammond Chester Thompson flanked by Jon Hammond and Scott May Power Shot L to R: Masato Tomie, Jon Hammond, Scott May, Yu Beniya, Masuo Terada Power Shot L to R: Jon Hammond, Masuo Terada, Shuji Suzuki Drummer Jay Dittamo speaking with Dr. Lonnie Smith on the bandstand, while Leo Stillo checks messages by the console Chester Thompson, Doc Lonnie, Jay Dittamo in action – Jon Hammond Jim Wischmeyer Bag End Speakers and Jon Hammond > *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: NAMM Jam at P.Mauriat Stand with Jon Hammond at the organ and horns Spontaneous NAMM Jam Session at P.Mauriat Saxophones and Trumpets stand with some great players – Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond organ with many great players including Hoai Phuong Nguyen, Alejandro Chiabrando, Juan Alzate, Keyan Williams, Tim Green, Willie Bradley, Jason Palmer, Eddie Baccus Jr., Adam MacBlane – sorry if I missed anybody folks! JH – Special thanks to Alex Mingmann Hsieh, Agnieszka Obrebska – P.Mauriat, Jim Wischmeyer Bag End Speakers http://bagend.com Hammond Suzuki USA and the very kind NAMM Sound Police – see you next year 2014 NAMM and Frankfurt Musikmesse – JH http://www.HammondCast.com P.Mauriat http://www.pmauriatmusic.comhttp://archive.org/details/JonHammondNAMMJamatP.MauriatStandwithJonHammondattheorganandhorns Yao Shake (謝瑤) and Jon Hammond Hoai Phuong Nguyen (Hoai Phuong)and Jon Hammond Youtube http://youtu.be/0C9HEsN5JGc Saxsbigfan 14 hours ago wow… so excellent performance !! Go! Go! Go! Go for the sound! Reply · Tsai Susan 14 hours ago It was so exciting to see your play at the NAMM with P Mauriat artists. The live performance was thrilled and joyful. Thank you, Jon. Without you, the NAMM would be less fun! Reply · A MH 14 hours ago Definitely, Jon deserves to have a big hugs and applauses…,whatsoever.. Jon’s LIVE performance at PM’s booth before ending NAMM ,which has been sparked a great highlights and memories to everybody, although ,it’s only a whirlwind of 30 minutes jam sessions, but that’s one of our historic treasure ,also to NAMM. We feel proudly to say “thanks you, Jon! those music makes people crazy and joyful time until the last minutes at NAMM, Jan. 27.2013 Go for the sound!! see you in 2014
Predicting Rain, Times Square, Accordion, Organ, On Display, Local 802, Musicians Union, Jon Hammond, Bernard Purdie, Danny Ray, Late Rent, Mikell’s, Saturday Night Live
New York NY — Flashback to August 1989 – Bernard Purdie the great fatback studio drummer takes the microphone and dedicates second set to his kids who are in the house to catch Jon Hammond and The Late Rent Session Men – this never-before
seen clip features Bernard and percussionist Chuggy Leslie J. Carter getting super funky on classic Cold Duck Time at Mikell’s at 760 Columbus on corner of 97th Street, there stands a Whole Foods Store nowadays at 760 Columbus Avenue..
Jon Hammond at his 1959 B3 organ
Bernard Purdie drums
Chuggy Carter percussion
Alex Foster alto saxophone
Barry Finnerty guitar
As seen on The Jon Hammond Show cable TV program now in 29th year. *Note: Joe Berger shot this video on my Panasonic PV-430d camcorder – it was one of the first cameras with digital gain boost – you can see when it kicks in and takes on the look of a lit old film, it is an old film now folks – JH — with Leslie J. Carter, Alex Foster, Jon Hammond Band, Bernard Purdie, Alex Foster and Bernard Purdie at 760 Columbus Ave. New York City. — at 760 Columbus Avenue New York City
Pat Petrillo
Wow..Loved Mikell’s..they were cool peeps.. Played there many times..This was a treat THANKS!
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TV and Radio Broadcasting Legend Joe Franklin with Jon Hammond in Joe’s Times Square offices Memory Lane
Youtube http://youtu.be/IQakXA_czpc Photo of Doctor Lonnie Smith at the Hammond Sk2 by Jon Hammond Denny Mack and Scott May – photo: Jon Hammond Chester Thompson flanked by Jon Hammond and Scott May Power Shot L to R: Masato Tomie, Jon Hammond, Scott May, Yu Beniya, Masuo Terada Power Shot L to R: Jon Hammond, Masuo Terada, Shuji Suzuki Drummer Jay Dittamo speaking with Dr. Lonnie Smith on the bandstand, while Leo Stillo checks messages by the console Chester Thompson, Doc Lonnie, Jay Dittamo in action – Jon Hammond
Justice For Jazz Artists: Pay. Pension. Protection. Process.
Now’s The Time!
Mike Camoia (tenor saxophonist) and Rudy Lawless (drums) – Jon Hammond http://justiceforjazzartists.org/ at Local 802 – Associated Musicians of Greater New York Club Room, excellent! JH — at Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM
Jim Wischmeyer Bag End Speakers and Jon Hammond *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: NAMM Jam at P.Mauriat Stand with Jon Hammond at the organ and horns Spontaneous NAMM Jam Session at P.Mauriat Saxophones and Trumpets stand with some great players – Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond organ with many great players including Hoai Phuong Nguyen, Alejandro Chiabrando, Juan Alzate, Keyan Williams, Tim Green, Willie Bradley, Jason Palmer, Eddie Baccus Jr., Adam MacBlane – sorry if I missed anybody folks! JH – Special thanks to Alex Mingmann Hsieh, Agnieszka Obrebska – P.Mauriat, Jim Wischmeyer Bag End Speakers http://bagend.com Hammond Suzuki USA and the very kind NAMM Sound Police – see you next year 2014 NAMM and Frankfurt Musikmesse – JH http://www.HammondCast.com P.Mauriat http://www.pmauriatmusic.comhttp://archive.org/details/JonHammondNAMMJamatP.MauriatStandwithJonHammondattheorganandhorns Yao Shake (謝瑤) and Jon Hammond Hoai Phuong Nguyen (Hoai Phuong)and Jon Hammond Youtube http://youtu.be/0C9HEsN5JGc Saxsbigfan 14 hours ago wow… so excellent performance !! Go! Go! Go! Go for the sound! Reply · Tsai Susan 14 hours ago It was so exciting to see your play at the NAMM with P Mauriat artists. The live performance was thrilled and joyful. Thank you, Jon. Without you, the NAMM would be less fun!
Stephen ‘Doc’ Kupka co-leader Baritone Saxophonist of Tower of Power and President of Strokeland Records interview with Jon Hammond of HammondCast Show KYOURADIO just prior to Tower of Power 40th Anniversary Fillmore Show in San Francisco. Doc and Jon speaking about the history of his career in TOP and writing with Frank Biner, Frank’s last recordings on his album for Strokeland “Bumped Up to First Class”, “Doc Goes Hollywood”, memories of Bill Graham and much more http://www.HammondCast.com
Jon Hammond I’m real proud of you Joe! Everybody should watch / listen to this remarkable life story of the Berger-Meister – keep up the great work and Spirit Mr. Berger! See you soon and on the bandstand, Jon Hammond
Published on Dec 27, 2012
Jon Hammond
Interview Date: January 13, 2011
Job Title: President and Founder
Company: Jon Hammond & Associates
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Jon Hammond has successfully created a career based on his musical talents and his passion for the music industry! As a musician Jon has performed with many legendary players and as a clinician and product artist he has introduced many innovative products to music stores and their customers over the last 30 plus years. Jon is closely identified with the two main products of his career, the Excelsior Accordion and the Digital B3 Organ.
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First time to NAMM Show – Suzuki Harmonica artist KOEI TANAKA from Tokyo Japan with JOE BERGER aka The Berger-Meister on guitar through Leslie G37 guitar combo amp, SWISS CHRIS getting down with custom Vic Firth drum sticks only on practice pad for low volume trade show performance with JON HAMMOND at Sk1 Hammond combo organ..
Gina Reder and Rudy Lawless – Local 802 Monday Night Jazz Session
Michael Guilford the great left-handed jazz and rock bassist with Jon Hammond at Local 802
Donald Duck Bailey legendary jazz drummer and harmonica recording artist here, performing on Fathers Day 2011 at The Tunnell Rehabilitation Center in San Francisco and interview with Jon Hammond of HammondCast. Concert sponsored by Jazz Foundation of America, Donald Duck Bailey drums & harmonica, Dewayne Oakley bs, Christopher L. Clarke tpt., Wayne Anderson gtr., camera: Jennifer and Jon Hammond – Special Thanks Stuart Cohen Director of Activities The Tunnell Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare SF CA, Marianne Pillsbury Jazz Foundation of America
snappy, duck, mikell’s, topanga canyon, accordion, 1971, photo, courtesy of, bob fratti, jazz, blues, suzuki, organ, local 802, bernard purdie
Picture taken from our hotel room on 10th floor of Hotel Rossiya – Red Square in the Moscow White Nights
Most of the day I stayed in the room practicing my instrument and looking out at Red Square. Jennifer and I wanted to get to the club early so that we could get a sound check and settle in. Faina picked us up and we stuffed my organ and all our equipment in her compact car and off we went to Le Club in the Taganka Theatre Building.
When we arrived the big friendly doormen picked up my heavy cases like they were toothpicks and brought them up the stairs for me! Vladimir the sound engineer for the club was very smooth and professional, and a very nice guy. We got a good sound on the organ and then came Eduard Zizak the great drummer! I had already met Eduard in New York the week before when he was there performing with Igor’s quartet at Birdland. Eduard is an incredible drummer and also a very nice guy. We made a little soundcheck and right away I could tell that he had listened to my music and we would lock up with some very tight grooves…no problem!
But where was Igor? I was hoping for a little mini-rehearsel with Igor but when I saw the public coming in to have dinner I knew it was too late for that! Igor arrived with his entourage and it was great to see him…he told me not to worry and apologised for not coming earlier. Igor is in big demand with a very busy schedule, so I am very lucky and honored that he could take the time to perform with me together even as his new cd album “Prophecy” was just released on the Universal Label.
We had time only for a 5 minute soundcheck and I showed Igor my book. This was going to be a very spontaneous performance, no doubt about it!
We decided to record it, and Vladimir did a fantastic job on the recording on their new digital recording console that they had just brought back from New York.
From the first notes I knew that this would be one of those magic nights I would never forget. The response from the audience was wonderful. I could only say in Russsian, “Ya LuBlu Vas”…which means, I love you all. And when I said the words to the people I got a great feeling back from them. First set was just fine and then on the break I was introduced to many press people and some fantastic local musicians. I was very honored that they all came to greet me. And then Igor proudly introduced me to 2 of the legendary jazz musicians of Moscow-accordionist Vladimir Danilin and guitarist Alexei Kuznezov. They said they had their instruments in the car and so yes we decided right away to make a live session together.
It was incredible from the first song on the 2nd set, playing together with these fantastic Moscow musicians! It felt like we had been playing together for 20 years. These musicians are some of the greatest I have ever heard and played together with. The audience was loving every bit of it, just as much as I! I was so happy that Vladimir was getting it all on tape and Jennifer was also running the video machine and taking pictures also. By the end of the night I was very satisfied with how everything went. Igor personally drove Jennifer and I back to the hotel in his nice car with fantastic sound system.
Great night!
Organist JON HAMMOND in concert with saxophonist IGOR BUTMAN, ALEXEI KUZNETZOV (gtr.), VLADIMIR DANILIN (accordion) & ED ZIZAK (drums) togehter for the first time in MOSCOW RUSSIA at LE CLUB in THEATRE TAGANKA *JENNIFER-Camera, *Special Thanks: FAINA COBHAM *Official Site: http://www.HammondCast.com
Frankfurt Germany — 2012 Annual Musikmesse Warm Up Party hosted by Jon Hammond Band in Jazzkeller Frankfurt -
Youtube http://youtu.be/AD8I5axpmy8
“LATE RENT” Jon Hammond Show Theme Song
as seen on MNN TV New York City Cable TV
with Tony Lakatos tenor sax, Joe Berger guitar, Giovanni Gulino drums,
Jon Hammond at the Hammond Sk1 organ,
special guest Lee Oskar harmonica.
This performance marks 26 years consecutive attending Musikmesse Frankfurt and
it was also on the birthday of Jon Hammond March 20th, 2012 with a big chocolate on chocolate cake baked by Saray Pastanesi Baeckerei & Konditorei bakery on Mainzer Landstrasse 131. 60327 Frankfurt am Main http://www.jonhammondband.com/
SFO Airport Maintenance — This is the Ground Support Crew for America’s Pride The Blue Angels folks, they just finished pulling this United Boeing 737 with a thick rope, you can see it in bottom left corner of photo – Jon Hammond
Remembering the late great Max Roach on his birthday today…I can’t say really Happy Birthday Max Roach because he is dead unfortunately, but I can say to his very talented daughter Maxine Roach (cellist, member Local 802), Happy Birthday Wishes to your Family Maxine!
I took this photo of Max Roach in 1981 when I returned from Paris France – he is playing here at Keystone Korner Jazz Club in San Francisco http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_in_jazz
Max Roach Photograph by Jon Hammond
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Max Roach died August 17 2007 in Manhattan. Photo by Organist Jon Hammond
Max Roach Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Roach
Maxwell Lemuel “Max” Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.
A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history.[1][2] He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown, Eric Dolphy and Booker Little.
Roach also led his own groups, and made numerous musical statements relating to the civil rights movement of African Americans.
Early life and career
Roach was born in the Township of Newland, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, which borders the southern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp, to Alphonse and Cressie Roach. Many confuse this with Newland Town in Avery County. Although Roach’s birth certificate lists his date of birth as January 10, 1924,[3] Roach has been quoted by Phil Schaap as having stated that his family believed he was born on January 8, 1925. Roach’s family moved to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York when he was 4 years old. He grew up in a musical home, his mother being a gospel singer. He started to play bugle in parade orchestras at a young age. At the age of 10, he was already playing drums in some gospel bands. As an eighteen year-old fresh out of Boys High School in Brooklyn, (1942) he was called to fill in for Sonny Greer, and play with the Duke Ellington Orchestra performing at the Paramount Theater.
In 1942, Roach started to go out in the jazz clubs of the 52nd Street and at 78th Street & Broadway for Georgie Jay’s Taproom (playing with schoolmate Cecil Payne).[4]
Roach’s most significant innovations came in the 1940s, when he and jazz drummer Kenny Clarke devised a new concept of musical time. By playing the beat-by-beat pulse of standard 4/4 time on the “ride” cymbal instead of on the thudding bass drum, Roach and Clarke developed a flexible, flowing rhythmic pattern that allowed soloists to play freely. The new approach also left space for the drummer to insert dramatic accents on the snare drum, “crash” cymbal and other components of the trap set.
By matching his rhythmic attack with a tune’s melody, Roach brought a newfound subtlety of expression to his instrument. He often shifted the dynamic emphasis from one part of his drum kit to another within a single phrase, creating a sense of tonal color and rhythmic surprise.[1] The idea was to shatter musical conventions and take full advantage of the drummer’s unique position. “In no other society”, Roach once observed, “do they have one person play with all four limbs.”[5]
While that approach is common today, when Clarke and Roach introduced the new style in the 1940s it was a revolutionary musical advance. “When Max Roach’s first records with Charlie Parker were released by Savoy in 1945,” jazz historian Burt Korall wrote in the Oxford Companion to Jazz, “drummers experienced awe and puzzlement and even fear.” One of those awed drummers, Stan Levey, summed up Roach’s importance: “I came to realize that, because of him, drumming no longer was just time, it was music.”[1]
He was one of the first drummers (along with Kenny Clarke) to play in the bebop style, and performed in bands led by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, and Miles Davis. Roach played on many of Parker’s most important records, including the Savoy November 1945 session, a turning point in recorded jazz.
Max Roach, Three Deuces, NYC, ca. October 1947. Photography by William P. Gottlieb.
[edit]1950s
Roach studied classical percussion at the Manhattan School of Music from 1950–53, working toward a Bachelor of Music degree (the School was to award him an Honorary Doctorate in 1990).
In 1952, Roach co-founded Debut Records with bassist Charles Mingus. This label released a record of a May 15, 1953 concert, billed as ‘the greatest concert ever’, which came to be known as Jazz at Massey Hall, featuring Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Mingus and Roach. Also released on this label was the groundbreaking bass-and-drum free improvisation, Percussion Discussion.[6]
In 1954, he formed a quintet featuring trumpeter Clifford Brown, tenor saxophonist Harold Land, pianist Richie Powell (brother of Bud Powell), and bassist George Morrow, though Land left the following year and Sonny Rollins soon replaced him. The group was a prime example of the hard bop style also played by Art Blakey and Horace Silver. Tragically, this group was to be short-lived; Brown and Powell were killed in a car accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in June 1956. The first album Roach recorded after their deaths was Max Roach + 4. After Brown and Powell’s deaths, Roach continued leading a similarly configured group, with Kenny Dorham (and later the short-lived Booker Little) on trumpet, George Coleman on tenor and pianist Ray Bryant. Roach expanded the standard form of hard-bop using 3/4 waltz rhythms and modality in 1957 with his album Jazz in 3/4 time. During this period, Roach recorded a series of other albums for the EmArcy label featuring the brothers Stanley and Tommy Turrentine.[7]
In 1955, he was the drummer for vocalist Dinah Washington at several live appearances and recordings. Appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival with her in 1958 which was filmed and the 1954 live studio audience recording of Dinah Jams, considered to be one of the best and most overlooked vocal jazz albums of its genre.[8]
[edit]1960s-1970s
In 1960 he composed the We Insist! his Freedom Now Suite with lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr., after being invited to contribute to commemorations of the hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. In 1962, he recorded the album Money Jungle, a collaboration with Mingus and Duke Ellington. This is generally regarded as one of the very finest trio albums ever made.[9]
In 1966, with his album Drums Unlimited (which includes several tracks that are entirely drums solos) he demonstrated that drums can be a solo instrument able to play theme, variations, rhythmically cohesive phrases. He described his approach to music as “the creation of organized sound.”[10]
During the 1970s, Roach formed a musical organization—”M’Boom”—a percussion orchestra. Each member of this unit composed for it and performed on many percussion instruments. Personnel included Fred King, Joe Chambers, Warren Smith, Freddie Waits, Roy Brooks, Omar Clay, Ray Mantilla, Francisco Mora, and Eli Fountain.[10]
[edit]1980s-1990s
Keystone Korner, San Francisco, 1979
In the early 1980s, he began presenting entire concerts solo, proving that this multi-percussion instrument could fulfill the demands of solo performance and be entirely satisfying to an audience. He created memorable compositions in these solo concerts; a solo record was released by Baystate, a Japanese label. One of these solo concerts is available on video, which also includes a filming of a recording date for “Chattahoochee Red,” featuring his working quartet, Odean Pope, Cecil Bridgewater and Calvin Hill.
He embarked on a series of duet recordings. Departing from the style of presentation he was best known for, most of the music on these recordings is free improvisation, created with the avant-garde musicians Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Archie Shepp, and Abdullah Ibrahim. He created duets with other performers: a recorded duet with the oration by Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream”; a duet with video artist Kit Fitzgerald, who improvised video imagery while Roach spontaneously created the music; a classic duet with his lifelong friend and associate Dizzy Gillespie; a duet concert recording with Mal Waldron.
He wrote music for theater, such as plays written by Sam Shepard, presented at La Mama E.T.C. in New York City.
He found new contexts for presentation, creating unique musical ensembles. One of these groups was “The Double Quartet.” It featured his regular performing quartet, with personnel as above, except Tyrone Brown replacing Hill; this quartet joined with “The Uptown String Quartet,” led by his daughter Maxine Roach, featuring Diane Monroe, Lesa Terry and Eileen Folson.
Another ensemble was the “So What Brass Quintet,” a group comprising five brass instrumentalists and Roach, no chordal instrument, no bass player. Much of the performance consisted of drums and horn duets. The ensemble consisted of two trumpets, trombone, French horn and tuba. Musicians included Cecil Bridgewater, Frank Gordon, Eddie Henderson, Rod McGaha, Steve Turre, Delfeayo Marsalis, Robert Stewart, Tony Underwood, Marshall Sealy, Mark Taylor and Dennis Jeter.
Roach presented his music with orchestras and gospel choruses. He performed a concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He wrote for and performed with the Walter White gospel choir and the John Motley Singers. Roach performed with dancers: the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Dianne McIntyre Dance Company, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.
Roach surprised his fans by performing in a hip hop concert, featuring the artist-rapper Fab Five Freddy and the New York Break Dancers. He expressed the insight that there was a strong kinship between the outpouring of expression of these young black artists and the art he had pursued all his life.[11]
Not content to expand on the musical territory he had already become known for, Roach spent the decades of the 1980s and 1990s continually finding new forms of musical expression and presentation. Though he ventured into new territory during a lifetime of innovation, he kept his contact with his musical point of origin. He performed with the Beijing Trio, with pianist Jon Jang and erhu player Jeibing Chen. His last recording, Friendship, was with trumpet master Clark Terry, the two long-standing friends in duet and quartet. His last performance was at the 50th anniversary celebration of the original Massey Hall concert, in Toronto, where he performed solo on the hi-hat.[12]
In 1994, Roach also appeared on Rush drummer Neil Peart’s Burning For Buddy performing “The Drum Also Waltzes”, Part 1 and 2 on Volume 1 of the Volume 2 series during the 1994 All-Star recording sessions.[13]
[edit]Death
The grave of Max Roach
Max Roach died in the early morning on August 16, 2007 in Manhattan.[14] He was survived by five children: sons Daryl and Raoul, and daughters Maxine, Ayo and Dara. Over 1,900 people attended his funeral at Riverside Church in Manhattan, New York City on August 24, 2007. Max Roach was interred at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY.
In a funeral tribute to Roach, then-Lieutenant Governor of New York David Paterson compared the musician’s courage to that of Paul Robeson, Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X, saying that “No one ever wrote a bad thing about Max Roach’s music or his aura until 1960, when he and Charlie Mingus protested the practices of the Newport Jazz Festival.”[15]
[edit]Personal life
Two children, son Daryl Keith and daughter Maxine, were born from his first marriage with Mildred Roach. In 1956 he met singer Barbara Jai (Johnson) and fathered another son, Raoul Jordu. He continued to play as a freelance while studying composition at the Manhattan School of Music. He graduated in 1952. During the period 1962–1970, Roach was married to the singer Abbey Lincoln, who had performed on several of Roach’s albums. Twin daughters, Ayodele Nieyela and Dara Rashida, were later born to Roach and his third wife, Janus Adams Roach. He has four grandchildren: Kyle Maxwell Roach, Kadar Elijah Roach, Maxe Samiko Hinds, and Skye Sophia Sheffield. Long involved in jazz education, in 1972 he joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst. In the early 2000s, Roach became less active from the onset of hydrocephalus-related complications.
From the 1970s through the mid-1990s Roach taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[16]
[edit]Honors
He was given a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant in 1988, cited as a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France (1989),[17] twice awarded the French Grand Prix du Disque, elected to the International Percussive Art Society’s Hall of Fame and the Downbeat Magazine Hall of Fame, awarded Harvard Jazz Master, celebrated by Aaron Davis Hall, given eight honorary doctorate degrees, including degrees awarded by Medgar Evers College, CUNY, the University of Bologna, Italy and Columbia University.[18] While spending the later years of his life at the Mill Basin Sunrise assisted living home, in Brooklyn, Max was honored with a proclamation honoring his musical achievements by Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz.[19]
In 1986 the London borough of Lambeth named a park in Brixton after him.[20][21] – Roach was able to officially open it when he visited the UK that year.
Roach was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
As leader
1953 : Max Roach Quartet (Fantasy)
1953 : Max Roach and his Sextet (Debut)
1953 : Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (Debut)
1956 : Max Roach + 4 (EmArcy)
1957 : Jazz in ¾ Time (EmArcy)
1957 : The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (EmArcy)
1958 : MAX (Argo)
1958 : Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (Mercury)
1958 : Max Roach/Art Blakey (with Art Blakey)
1958 : Max Roach + 4 at Newport (EmArcy)
1958 : Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (EmArcy)
1958 : Deeds, Not Words (Riverside) – also released as Conversation
1958 : Award-Winning Drummer (Time) – also released as Max Roach
1958 : Max Roach/Bud Shank – Sessions (with Bud Shank)
1958 : The Defiant Ones – with Booker Little
1959 : The Many Sides of Max (Mercury)
1959 : Rich Versus Roach (Mercury) – with Buddy Rich
1959 : Quiet as It’s Kept (Mercury)
1959 : Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (Mercury) – with Abbey Lincoln
1960 : Long as You’re Living (Enja) – released 1984
1960 : Parisian Sketches (Mercury)
1960 : We Insist! (Candid)
1961 : Percussion Bitter Sweet (Impulse!) – with Mal Waldron
1962 : It’s Time (Impulse!) – with Mal Waldron
1962 : Speak, Brother, Speak! (Fantasy)
1964 : The Max Roach Trio featuring the Legendary Hasaan (Atlantic) – with Hasaan Ibn Ali
1966 : Drums Unlimited (Atlantic)
1968 : Members, Don’t Git Weary (Atlantic)
1971 : Lift Every Voice and Sing (Atlantic) – with the J.C. White Singers
1976 : Force: Sweet Mao-Suid Afrika ’76 (duo with Archie Shepp)
1976 : Nommo (Victor)
1977 : Max Roach Quartet Live in Tokyo (Denon)
1977 : The Loudstar (Horo)
1977 : Max Roach Quartet Live In Amsterdam – It’s Time (Baystate)
1977 : Solos (Baystate)
1977 : Streams of Consciousness – duo with Dollar Brand
1978 : Confirmation (Fluid Records)
1978 : Birth and Rebirth – duo with Anthony Braxton (Black Saint)
1979 : The Long March – duo with Archie Shepp (Hathut)
1979 : Historic Concerts – duo with Cecil Taylor (Black Saint)
1979 : One in Two – Two in One – duo with Anthony Braxton (Hathut)
1979 : Pictures in a Frame (Soul Note)
1980 : Chattahoochee Red (Columbia)
1982 : Swish – duo with Connie Crothers (New Artists)
1982 : In the Light (Soul Note)
1983 : Live at Vielharmonie (Soul Note)
1984 : Scott Free (Soul Note)
1984 : It’s Christmas Again (Soul Note)
1984 : Survivors (Soul Note)
1985 : Easy Winners (Soul Note)
1986 : Bright Moments (Soul Note)
1989 : Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 – duo with Dizzy Gillespie (A&M)
1989 : Homage to Charlie Parker (A&M)
1991 : To the Max! (Enja)
1995 : Max Roach With The New Orchestra Of Boston And The So What Brass Quintet (Blue Note)
1999 : Beijing Trio (Asian Improv)
2002 : Friendship – (with Clark Terry) (Columbia)
With Clifford Brown
1954: Best Coast Jazz (Emarcy)
1954: Clifford Brown All Stars (Emarcy, [released 1956])
1954: Jam Session (EmArcy, 1954) – with Maynard Ferguson and Clark Terry
1954 : Brown and Roach Incorporated (EmArcy)
1954 : Daahoud (Mainstream) – released 1973
1955 : Clifford Brown with Strings (EmArcy)
1954-55 : Clifford Brown and Max Roach (EmArcy)
1955 : Study in Brown (EmArcy)
1954 : More Study in Brown
1956 : Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (EmArcy)
1979 : Live at the Bee Hive (Columbia Records)
With M’Boom
1973 : Re: Percussion (Strata-East Records)
1979 : M’Boom (Columbia)
1984 : Collage (Soul Note)
1992 : Live at S.O.B.’s New York (Blue Moon Records)
[edit]As sideman
With Don Byas
Savoy Jam Party (1946)
With Sonny Clark
Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note, 1957)
With Jimmy Cleveland
Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars (EmArcy, 1955)
With Al Cohn
Cohn’s Tones (1953)
With Miles Davis
Birth of the Cool (Capitol, 1949)
Conception (Prestige, 1951)
With John Dennis
New Piano Expressions (1955)
With Kenny Dorham
Jazz Contrasts (Riverside, 1957)
With Billy Eckstine
The Metronome All Stars (1953)
With Duke Ellington
Paris Blues (United Artists, 1961)
Money Jungle (United Artists, 1962) – with Charles Mingus
With Maynard Ferguson
Jam Session featuring Maynard Ferguson (EmArcy, 1954)
With Dizzy Gillespie
Diz and Getz (Verve, 1953) – with Stan Getz
The Bop Session (Sonet, 1975) – with Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Hank Jones and Percy Heath
With Stan Getz
Opus BeBop (1946)
With Benny Golson
The Modern Touch (Riverside, 1957)
With Johnny Griffin
Introducing Johnny Griffin (Blue Note, 1956)
With Slide Hampton
Drum Suite (1962)
With Coleman Hawkins
Rainbow Mist (1944)
Coleman Hawkins and His All Stars (1944)
The Hawk Flies (1946)
With Joe Holiday
Mambo Jazz (1953)
With J.J. Johnson
Mad Be Bop (1946)
First Place (1957)
With Thad Jones
The Magnificent Thad Jones (Blue Note, 1956)
With Abbey Lincoln
That’s Him! (Riverside, 1957)
Straight Ahead (Riverside, 1961)
With Booker Little
Out Front (Candid, 1961)
With Howard McGhee
The McGhee-Navarro Sextet (1950)
With Gil Melle
New Faces, New Sounds (Blue Note, 1952)
With Charles Mingus
The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (Debut, 1955)
With Thelonious Monk
The Complete Genius (Blue Note, 1952)
Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1956)
With Herbie Nichols
Herbie Nichols Trio (Blue Note, 1955)
With Charlie Parker
Town Hall, New York, June 22, 1945 (1945) – with Dizzy Gillespie
The Complete Savoy Studio Recordings (1945-48)
Lullaby in Rhythm (1947)
Charlie Parker on Dial (Dial, 1947)
The Band that Never Was (1948)
Bird on 52nd Street (1948)
Bird at the Roost (1948)
Charlie Parker – Complete Sessions on Verve (Verve, 1949-53)
Charlie Parker in France (1949)
Live at Rockland Palace (1952)
Yardbird: DC-53 (1953)
With Bud Powell
The Bud Powell Trip (1947)
The Amazing Bud Powell (Blue Note, 1951)
With Sonny Rollins
Work Time (Prestige, 1955)
Sonny Rollins Plus 4 (Prestige, 1956)
Tour de Force (Prestige, 1956)
Rollins Plays for Bird (Prestige, 1956)
Saxophone Colossus (Prestige, 1956)
Freedom Suite (Riverside, 1958)
Stuttgart 1963 Concert (1963)
With Hazel Scott
Relaxed Piano Moods (1955)
With Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (Prestige, 1949-50 [1956]) – with J. J. Johnson and Bud Powell
With Stanley Turrentine
Stan ‘The Man’ Turrentine (1960)
With Tommy Turrentine
Tommy Turrentine (1960)
With George Wallington
The George Wallington Trip and Septet (1951)
With Dinah Washington
Dinah Jams (EmArcy, 1954)
With Randy Weston
Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)
With Joe Wilder
The Music of George Gershwin: I Sing of Thee (1956)
With Various Artists
The Stars of Modern Jazz at Carnegie Hall’(1949)
Newport in New York ‘72 (1972) – Roach on 2 tracks only — with Odean Pope, Odean Pope and Max Roach at North Beach San Francisco
America’s pride The Blue Angels here at SFO to perform fearlessly in honor of Fleet Week 2012 with support from United Airlines Team at United Family Day very special annual event, special thanks to all these fine folks it takes to make it happen. From the Firefighters, to the Mechanics, Air Controllers, Crew, Food Preparations even the Imperial Storm Troopers from Star Wars were on hand for this very special family day – with music here from The Jon Hammond Band with special guest Lee Oskar harmonica, recent performance in Frankfurt Germany at the famous Jazzkeller “Tribute to 9/11 – Get Back In The Groove” Tony Lakatos tenor sax, Giovanni Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar, Jon Hammond at Sk1 organ, enjoy folks! Sincerely, Jon Hammond
Hamburg Germany — No more bungee jumping off of the Heinrich-Hertz-Turm folks! – Jon Hammond
“After the observation platform and restaurant were closed (due to asbestos decontamination), former stuntman Jochen Schweitzer had a bungee jumping base installed. The restaurant will not open again due to new fire escape regulations, the bungee platform was closed at the end of 2001.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich-Hertz-Turm
The Heinrich-Hertz-Turm (named after the German physicist and Hamburg-born Heinrich Hertz) is a radio telecommunication tower and a famous landmark of Hamburg, Germany.
Designed by architect Fritz Trautwein, in co-operation with civil engineers Jörg Schlaich, Rudolf Bergermann and Fritz Leonhardt, it was built 1965–1968 for former Deutsche Bundespost (German Federal Post and Telecommunications Agency, now Deutsche Telekom ‘s subsidiary Deutsche Funkturm GmbH) near Planten un Blomen (a city park). With an overall height of 279,2 m (916 ft) it is Hamburg’s tallest building
R.I.P. Bill Graham – January 8, 1931 – October 25, 1991
I took this shot backstage, you can see in the foreground Jack Casady, I think Bill is speaking with Paul Kantner. To Bill’s left is Wavy Gravy with the cowboy hat and American Flag suit. A huge loss to all the music community!
The last time I ran in to Bill, it was about 3.30AM in the morning at The Carnegie Deli in New York City – he was unshaven and looked tired, but he wanted his corned beef sandwich in the middle of the night. I was in Frankfurt Germany when I got the horrible news of his helicopter crash 10/25/1991, rest in peace Bill – Jon Hammond
*anybody recognize any other people in my photo of Bill? It looks to me like it might be Frank Biner to the left of Wavy, just under the Jartran truck sign – JH
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Graham_(promoter)
Born Wolodia Grajonca
January 8, 1931
Berlin, Germany
Died October 25, 1991 (aged 60)
Vallejo, California, U.S.
Occupation Rock promoter
Years active 1960s–1991; his death
Graham was born Wolodia Grajonca in Berlin,[1] the son of Frieda (née Sass) and Yankel Grajonca, an engineer.[2] He was given the nickname Wolfgang by his family early in his life.[3] He was the youngest son of a lower-middle-class Jewish family that had emigrated from Russia prior to the rise of Nazism.[4][5] Graham’s father died two days after his son’s birth.[6] Graham’s mother placed her son and his younger sister in an orphanage in Berlin due to the increasing peril to Jews in Germany. The orphanage sent them to France in a pre–Holocaust exchange of Jewish children for Christian orphans. Graham’s older sisters stayed behind with his mother. After the fall of France, Graham was among a group of Jewish orphans spirited out of France, some of whom finally reached America. But a majority of the children—including Graham’s older sister Tolla—did not survive the difficult journey. Graham thus was one of the One Thousand Children, (OTC), those mainly Jewish children who managed to flee Hitler and Europe and then came directly to America, but whose parents were forced to stay behind. Nearly all these OTC parents were murdered “by Hitler”. Graham’s mother was murdered in Auschwitz. Graham had five sisters, Rita, Evelyn, Sonja, Ester and Tolla, only two of whom survived. Ester moved to the United States and was very close to Graham in his later life. His sister Rita escaped, first to Shanghai and then (after the war) to the United States.[citation needed]
Once in the United States, Graham stayed in a foster home in The Bronx in New York City. After being taunted as an immigrant and being called a Nazi because of his German accented English, Graham first worked on his accent, eventually being able to speak in a perfect New York accent, and also changed his name to be more “American.” (He found “Graham” in the phonebook, it was closest to his real surname “Grajonca.” According to Graham, both “Bill” and “Graham” were meaningless to him). Graham graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and then obtained a business degree from City College.[7][8] He was later quoted as describing his training as that of an “efficiency expert[disambiguation needed]“.
Graham was drafted into the United States Army in 1951, and served in the Korean War, where he was awarded both the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Upon his return to the States he worked as a waiter/maître d’ in Catskill Mountain resorts in upstate New York during their heyday. He was later quoted as saying his experience as a maître d’ and with the poker games he hosted behind the scenes was good training for his eventual career as a promoter. Tito Puente, who played some of these resorts, went on record once saying that Graham was avid to learn Spanish from him, but only cared about the curse words.[9] It was during the 1950s that Graham became a champion mambo dancer in the mambo clubs of New York City.
Career
Graham in 1974
Graham moved from New York to San Francisco in the early 1960s to be closer to his sister, Rita. He was invited to attend a free concert in Golden Gate Park, where he made contact with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a radical theater group. He gave up a promising business career to manage the troupe in 1965. After Mime Troupe leader Ronnie Davis was arrested on obscenity charges during an outdoor performance, Graham organized a benefit concert to cover the troupe’s legal fees. The concert was a success, and Graham saw a business opportunity.[11][12]
Graham began promoting more concerts to raise funds for the Mime Troupe and eventually left the troupe to promote concerts full-time. Charles Sullivan was a mid-20th century black entrepreneur and businessman in San Francisco who owned the master lease on the Fillmore Auditorium. Bill approached Charles to put on the Second Mime Troupe appeals concert at the Fillmore Auditorium on December 10, 1965 using Sullivan’s dance hall permit for the show. Graham later secured a contract from Sullivan for the open dates at the Fillmore Auditorium in 1966. Graham credits Sullivan with giving him his break in the music promotion business. Charles Sullivan was found murdered on August 2, 1966, south of Market Street in San Francisco. To this day the murder remains unsolved.
One of the first concerts Graham promoted was in partnership with Chet Helms of the Family Dog organization and featured the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The concert was an overwhelming success and Graham saw an opportunity with the band.[14] Early the next morning, Graham called the band’s manager, Albert Grossman, and obtained exclusive rights to promote them. Shortly thereafter, Chet Helms arrived at Graham’s office, asking how Graham could have cut him out of the deal. Graham pointed out that Helms would not have known about it unless he had tried to do the same thing to Graham and advised him to “get up early” in the future.[citation needed]
A charismatic but often difficult personality, Graham produced shows attracting elements of America’s now legendary counterculture of the time such as Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe and The Fish, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, The Committee, The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, and, a particular favorite of Graham’s, The Grateful Dead. He was the manager of Jefferson Airplane during 1967 and 1968. His successes and popularity allowed him to become the top concert promoter in rock music. He operated the famous venues the Fillmore West and Winterland (both in San Francisco) and the Fillmore East (in New York City), where the best up-and-coming acts would come to play. Graham also owned a record label, Fillmore Records, which was in operation from 1969 to circa 1976. Some of the artists who signed with Graham were Rod Stewart, Elvin Bishop and Cold Blood,[15] although of these it seems only Bishop actually issued albums on the Fillmore label.
In New York City, he formed a booking agency called The Millard Agency which organized the booking of bands into various venues across the US. Because his music venue was the Fillmore, it seemed obvious to call the booking agency Millard. (Millard Fillmore was the thirteenth president of the United States.) In his music venues, he also opened certain weekday nights for unknown bands, like Santana, to get exposure. Graham promoted the West-Coast leg of the legendary The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972, also known as S.T.P. Tour (for Stones Touring Party), as well as parts of the Rolling Stones 1975 and 1978 tours. He would then promote the entire Rolling Stones American Tour 1981 and Rolling Stones European Tour 1982. When the Stones returned to touring in 1989 with the Steel Wheels tour, Mick Jagger accepted the offer of Michael Cohl’s The BCL Group (Ballard Cohl Labatt).[16] to buy the concert, sponsorship, merchandising, radio, television, and film rights. Steel Wheels became the most financially successful in history. Graham later discovered that Cohl had offered only slightly more money. Graham took Jagger’s repudiation as a personal defeat, writing with eloquence and grace, “Losing the Stones was like watching my favorite lover become a whore.”[17]
In 1971, he closed the Fillmores on both coasts, citing a need to “find [himself]“. The movie Fillmore: The Last Days documents the closing of the Fillmore West. Graham retreated to a Greek island, but found the quietude disconcerting and later admitted being disappointed that no one there knew of him. He returned to promoting, first organizing concerts at smaller venues, like the Berkeley Community Theatre on the campus of Berkeley High School. He then leased out the Winterland Arena in San Francisco and promoted shows at the Cow Palace Auditorium in Daly City.[citation needed] In 1973 he promoted the largest outdoor concert at that time at Watkins Glen, New York with Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band and The Band. Over 600,000 paid were in attendance. He continued promoting stadium sized concerts at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco with Led Zeppelin in 1973 and started a series of stadium concerts at The Oakland Coliseum Stadium he called Day On The Green (DOG)in 1973 until 1992. Some of these concerts featured acts such as Grateful Dead and The Who in October of 1976, and Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan in 1987. His first large-scale outdoor benefit concert was for the San Francisco after-school programs, called the SNACK concert and starred Bob Dylan, with Neil Young, various members of the Grateful Dead and members of The Band.[11]
In the mid-1980s, in conjunction with the city of Mountain View, California, and Apple Inc. cofounder Steve Wozniak, he masterminded the creation of the Shoreline Amphitheatre, which became the premier venue for outdoor concerts in Silicon Valley. Throughout his career, Graham promoted benefit concerts.
Atlanta GA — A very special performance by US Army Blues Pershing’s Own Jazz Band at the JEN Jazz Education Network Conference 2013. A wonderful arrangement by SFC Graham Breedlove – Trumpet Chair of this fine ensemble. You can actually see and read down SFC Graham Breedlove’s trumpet part online – for PDF of his music: http://www.usarmyband.com/recording_notes/pdf/blues-something-old/precious-lord-score-and-parts/precious-lord-trumpet-1.pdf
Director Conductor: Chief Warrant Officer Four Gordon K. Kippola
video by Jon Hammond at evening concert Jazz Education Network Conference in the ballroom of Hyatt Regency Atlanta GA. Special thanks to these fine musicians and Mary Jo Papich
**Really great solos from SSG Victor Barranco trombone and SFC Graham Breedlove trumpet – JH
THE U.S. ARMY BLUES PERSONNEL ROSTER
CW4 Gordon K. Kippola, Seabeck, WA, DIRECTOR
The U.S. Army Blues
SAXOPHONE
SFC Antonio L. Orta, Guanica, PR
SFC Bill E. Linney, Buies Creek, NC
SFC Joseph D. Henson, Rock Hill, SC
MSG John W. DeSalme, Iowa City, IA *
MSG David T. Brown, Ballston Lake, NY
TRUMPET
SFC Mark A. Wood, Gainesville, FL
SFC Kenneth W. McGee, Stafford, VA
SFC Graham E. Breedlove, Lafayette, LA ‡‡
SGM Craig C. Fraedrich, Menomonee Falls, WI ††
MSG Kenneth R. Rittenhouse, Fairmont, WV *
TROMBONE
MSG Matthew F. Niess, Levittown, PA
MSG William L. Holmes, Philadelphia, PA *
SSG Victor Barranco, North Pole, AK
SFC Jeffrey J. Cortazzo, Palmerton, PA ‡‡
PIANO
SGM Anthony W. Nalker, Lewisburg, WV †
GUITAR
SGM James F. Roberts, Washington, DC ‡
BASS
SSG Regan Brough, Orem, UT
DRUMS
MSG Steve Fidyk, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Victor Barranco
University of North Texas
FriendFriends
Joe Cangelosi
Brooklyn, New York
Adrienne Warner Barranco
UNT Health Science Center
Barb Magendans
Phlebotomist/Reception/Manager at Now working for Immigration Express Chch
Grasso Arthur
University of Portland
Timothy Lutte
Royal Danish Conservatory of Music
Max Alexander Levowitz
James Madison High School
Harold C. Christie
Owner at The UPS Store #682/Buffalo, NY
Walt Boenig
Sam Houston State University
Chris Beatty
Palmdale, California
Hector Martinez
Musician – Horn Player at “LA SOMBRA DE TONY GUERRERO”
David Kauffman
City Councilman at City of Cumberland
Mark Channon
Thursday Morning Jazz Host at 91.3 FM WWUH Radio
Robert Skanse
Washington, District of Columbia
Jose C. Abiles
George Washington University
Aaron Cockson
Works at U.S Army
Hector Martinez
Musician – Horn Player at “LA SOMBRA DE TONY GUERRERO”
Andrew A. Lazaro
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Tim La Marca
Sierra Madre, California
Jennifer Snead Redmon
Melissa Gray Shown
Murray State KY
Kurt Shipe
Wisc Eau Claire
Patrick Fowler
Max Alexander Levowitz
James Madison High School
Adrienne Warner Barranco
UNT Health Science Center
Rob Ambrose I was there. The band killed it! I can’t say enough! Knocked me out, the whole set!
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Andy Badeaux Our army is the melllowest!
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Rob Ambrose The one with the burning alto and piano solo, just before or after that. Can you post that?? Please?
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Francis Carpino I was there, and the band was unbelievable. Great show as always Graham!!
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Tim La Marca Thanks for sharing this great performance with us Graham!
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Aaron Cockson Smokin.
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Jose C. Abiles Missed too many of the Blues performances. They sound great as ever.
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Jon Hammond My favorite music of the whole show Graham, thanks a million for coming to play for us! Beautiful arrangement and playing, and amazing Victor played so great with high fever, keep up the great work and safe travels, best band in the land! Jon
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Graham Breedlove Video courtesy of Jon Hammond. Thanks, Jon!
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Justin J. Smith Sounds great Graham. Great Arrangement.
about an hour ago via mobile ·
Jon Hammond Thanks a million Graham, big honor! I love your arrangement and performance was killin’ – amazing Victor could play like that with high fever – I really dug it on the CD as well, wonderful music, best band in the land! Stay safe & well, many thanks to you and all the cats and Band Master Kippola! Jon
Atlanta GA — CNN Center as seen from 60 floors up – Jon Hammond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_Center
The CNN Center is the world headquarters of the Cable News Network (CNN). The main newsrooms and studios for several of CNN’s news channels are located in the building. The facility’s commercial office space is occupied entirely by CNN and its parent company, Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner. The CNN Center is located in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia, adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park.
The CNN Center opened in 1976 as the Omni Hotel, which was a development by Cousins Properties Inc. as that was unsuccessful until CNN moved its headquarters there in 1987 from its Midtown Atlanta site (old home of the Progressive Club on 1050 Techwood Drive and home to Turner Broadcasting System).[1] The facility originally offered office space to various business tenants, as well as consulates over the years. The main floor featured an indoor ice skating rink, as well as a small number of restaurants and a Gold Mine video arcade. More famously, Sid and Marty Krofft built an indoor amusement park called The World of Sid and Marty Krofft, inspired by the creations of the popular children’s television producers. The park was the first indoor theme park and opened in 1976, it closed within six months. The complex also featured a multi-screen movie theater. For years, the theater offered showings of Gone with the Wind, Ted Turner’s favorite movie. The theater was replaced during renovations to put in a new newsroom for CNN’s website operations. The ice skating rink was filled in and a mosaic map of the world replaced it (featuring brass markers indicating the locations of CNN bureaus around the world). When CNN networks moved in in 1987, CNN Headline News (now known as HLN) was the first network to broadcast a show from it at 3.00 ET with its program # 96,115. Their sister channel started live programming at 6.00 ET of that day.
Debris from tornado in front of CNN Center
On March 14, 2008, a EF-2 [2] tornado passed through downtown Atlanta, damaging the CNN Center and leaving water and dust in the upper floors. The ceiling of the atrium was also damaged, causing water to pour in and partially flood the food court. CNN’s library was damaged, although it is unknown at the moment how much of its archives were damaged.[3] Numerous injuries and widespread damage were reported overall. The Omni Hotel, attached to the CNN Center, was evacuated as a precaution, and more than 400 rooms had to be emptied of occupancy for two weeks.
Atlanta GA from 60 floors up – Atlanta is the official capital of Georgia and is a city of Skyscrapers – Jon Hammond from 60 floors above Atlanta
List of tallest buildings in Atlanta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Atlanta
Atlanta, the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Georgia, is home to 256 completed high-rises,[1] 37 of which stand taller than 400 feet (122 m). The majority of the city’s skyscrapers are clustered around Peachtree Street in the Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead neighborhoods, with the suburban city of Sandy Springs also being the site of several skyscrapers. The tallest building in Atlanta is the 55-story Bank of America Plaza, which rises 1,023 feet (312 m) and was completed in 1992.[2] The Bank of America Plaza is also the tallest building in the United States outside of New York City and Chicago,[3] and the 9th-tallest building in the U.S. overall. The second-tallest building in Atlanta is SunTrust Plaza, which rises 871 feet (265 m).[4]
The history of skyscrapers in Atlanta began with the completion in 1892 of the Equitable Building.[5] The city later went through a major building boom that began in the 1980s and continued until the mid-1990s; the majority of the city’s skyscrapers, including its four tallest, have all been completed since 1985. Overall, Atlanta is the site of 15 completed buildings that are at least 492 feet (150 m) high. As of 2012, the skyline of Atlanta is ranked second in the Southeastern United States (behind Miami), seventh in the United States and 30th in the world with 56 buildings rising at least 330 feet (100 m) in height.[6] Of the 20 tallest buildings in Georgia, 18 are located in Atlanta;[7] the other two, Concourse Corporate Center V & VI are located in the neighboring city of Sandy Springs and stand as the tallest suburban buildings in the country.
NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman burning it up with The University of Miami Frost Concert Jazz Band at 4th annual JEN Jazz Education Network Conference
- Atlanta GA – Jon Hammond
This is a priceless photo: Gary Campbell great tenor saxophonist, composer, bandleader, educator
http://www.garycampbelljazz.com/ receiving a visit from his teacher – Dr. David N. Baker http://www.davidbakermusic.org/ past president of IAJE, author, world renowned musician educator – at 4th annual JEN Jazz Education Network Conference Atlanta GA after Gary’s quartet concert which was superb! Jon Hammond — at Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Jon Hammond with Javon Jackson Donald Meade Jazz Historian, Joe Chambers, Martin W. Mueller Exec. Director New School Contemporary Jazz Program
- here at the 4th annual JEN Jazz Education Network Conference – Atlanta GA – wonderful stories at this table folks! JH — with Javon Jackson and Martin W. Mueller at Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Martin W. Mueller Executive Director of New School Contemporary Jazz Program with one of his outstanding Alums – saxophonist composer bandleader Alex Graham, now living in Nashville – Alex has done well for himself and has a beautiful family – smokin’ quartet performance today here in Atlanta GA at 4th annual JEN Jazz Education Network Conference – Alex is a Jupiter endorsee
- Jon Hammond — with Martin W. Mueller and Alex Graham at Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Benjamin Toman
Cynthia Cawthorne
Graceland University
Jessica McAuliffe Graham
Boston, Massachusetts
Dixie Thompson
Pensacola, Florida
Bob Hull
Attorney at Law at Lewitt Hackman
Andrew Nichols
Musician/Private Woodwinds Instructor at Myself
Kimberly Lotoszinski Turrell
East Lansing, Michigan
Valerie Porter
Homemaker at None
Bill Liebold
Monika Ryan
Steve Urick
Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka, Japan
Leron Thomas
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
George D. Goodman
Eastern Michigan University
Steven Oberndorf
Counsel at McKay Hochman Company, Inc.
Paul Jobin
Financial Advisor at MassMutual
Gene Perry
Northern Michigan University
Jon Hammond with the great Wycliffe Gordon playing his famous soprano trombone – incredible and super-soulful musician & vocalist / composer arranger folks! *Feature performer with US Army Blues “Pershing’s Own” Jazz Orchestra at 4th annual JEN Jazz Education Network Conference – Atlanta GA , bravo Wycliffe!!
- JH — with Wycliffe Gordon at Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Blues Brothers from Different Mothers – Tom Bones Malone and Jon Hammond at 4th annual JEN Jazz Education Network Conference – Atlanta GA *video of Tom’s concert to come..
Tom interview with Jon backstage Ed Sullivan Theatre:
Youtube http://youtu.be/bxLx2tXAAZw
Tom Bones Malone of Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra Late Show with David Letterman on HammondCast Show KYOURADIO interview with Jon Hammond and Tom, covering his entire career including 10 years with Saturday Night Live as Musician and Music Director. Long time association with Gil Evans, Doc Severensen, featured in movie “Blues Brothers” and tours. Arranger, multi-instrumentalist speaking with Jon just prior to daily taping of Late Show in the Ed Sullivan Theater dressing rooms.
— with Tom Bones Malone and Tom ‘Bones’ Malone at Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Bob Cranshaw the great Jazz bassist, recording artist, educator and Local 802 Jazz Consultant Executive Board Member here interviewed by Jon Hammond at the 2013 JEN Jazz Education Network Conference in Atlanta GA. Bob tells an incredible story about the recording date with Lee Morgan on the classic album The Sidewinder.
Bob Cranshaw Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Cranshaw
special thanks to Mary Jo Papich, Rick Condit – Jazz Education Network http://www.HammondCast.com
Atlanta GA — Army Blues “Pershing’s Own” with Wycliffe Gordon – incredible smokin’ concert last night at 4th Annual JEN Jazz Education Network Conference 2013 – Jon Hammond
— with Wycliffe Gordon at Hyatt Regency Atlanta
2 of my favorite musician Bob’s: Bassist Bob Cranshaw and tenor saxophonist Bob Mintzer in Atlanta GA at the 4th annual JEN Jazz Education Network Conference
- Jon Hammond
Jon Hammond and Frank Alkyer at the very prestigious DownBeat Magazine Stand
at 4th annual JEN Jazz Education Network Conference – Atlanta GA http://www.namm.org/nammu/presenters/frank-alkyer
Frank Alkyer is the publisher of DownBeat, Music Inc. and UpBeat Daily magazines–all produced by Maher Publications, a family-owned company based in Elmhurst, Ill. He joined the company as editorial director in 1989 and he was named associate publisher in 1992 and publisher in 2003.
Alkyer began his career as a newspaper reporter. In the early 1980s, he served as statehouse reporter for the Youngstown Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio.
Jon’s Journal, January 10 2013, Moscow White Nights, Frankfurt, Musikmesse, Jazz, Blues, NAMM Show, Organ, Accordion, Musicians Union, Local 802, Ambassador
Jon Hammond just back from Hamburg Germany where I recorded my new album, an official production of NDR Radio in Studio 1 with some of my all-time favorite musicians: Lutz Buchner (Sax), Joe Gallardo (Trombone), Heinz Lichius (Drums), myself-Jon Hammond (XK-3 Organ/Bass) and Engineer: Rudy Grosser in Studio 1 NDR Radio. I’ll be playing some selections rough mixes (not so rough actually!) as my Christmas gift to the listeners, and speaking of Christmas…from inside San Francisco County Jail #8 “Pod E”, a live recording of my trio’s annual Christmas Prison Show with the great tenor saxophonist Larry Schneider & Ronnie Smith Jr. on drums along with myself on keys playing the Christmas classic: “Have Yourself a Merry Christmas”. Every year I tell the ladies “And ya’ better be good!”
And from the Studio 1 NDR Sessions my original blues shuffle: No X-Cess Baggage Blues, some fine playing by Lutz on one of my favorite ballads: My One and Only Love and my theme song: “Late Rent”. Special thanks to Knut Benzner of NDR Radio for co-producing these recordings now heard on KYOU Radio, 1550 on the AM Dial.
Jon Hammond KYOURADIO.org
Jon Hammond and Lazy Larry under the giant Mitsubishi Diamond Vision Screen Times Square showing clips from The Jon Hammond Show 80 times daily for 2 years
HammondCast 40 Jon Hammond’s “HammondCast 40″ for KYOU/KYCY 1550 AM “Jon Hammond’s Afternoon Slide”, introducing for the first time: “Lazy Larry” Fredson, HammondCast’s “Sports Authority” with LAZY LARRY’S OAKLAND A’s REPORT beaming in from Beantown MA! Also music from Jon’s albums “Late Rent” and official new release of “NDR SESSIONS Projekt” on the Ham-Berger-Friz Records label. Jon Hammond is a member of Local 802 & Local 6 Musicians Union and ASCAP Composer/Publisher *Official Site: http://www.HammondCast.com 45 minutes
Frankfurt Germany — 2012 Annual Musikmesse Warm Up Party hosted by Jon Hammond Band in Jazzkeller Frankfurt -
Youtube http://youtu.be/AD8I5axpmy8
“LATE RENT” Jon Hammond Show Theme Song
as seen on MNN TV New York City Cable TV
with Tony Lakatos tenor sax, Joe Berger guitar, Giovanni Gulino drums,
Jon Hammond at the Hammond Sk1 organ,
special guest Lee Oskar harmonica.
This performance marks 26 years consecutive attending Musikmesse Frankfurt and
it was also on the birthday of Jon Hammond March 20th, 2012 with a big chocolate on chocolate cake baked by Saray Pastanesi Baeckerei & Konditorei bakery on Mainzer Landstrasse 131. 60327 Frankfurt am Main
HammondCast 15 for KYOU Radio, this show just before Jon blasts over to Hamburg Germany to record a new album at NDR Radio. Special guest recordings of Jon with radio legend Al Jazzbeaux Collins telling the story of Jon’s composition “Train Song” and with Chuy Varela talking about the meaning of Jon’s song “Get Back In The Groove” played 2 different ways: from “Hammond’s Bolero” CD 2003 release (instrumental) and a 1981 version from DTI Records label with Frank Biner on vocals and Jon covering all the instruments — with Jon Hammond at KCSM Jazz 91
New York NY — 9/11 Concert at ZEB’s produced by the great lady of Jazz – Cobi Narita (in middle) with Jon Hammond on left and Joe Berger – Cobi Ham-Berger at ZEB’s
- Jon & Joe played “Tribute to 9/11 Get Back in The Groove” with Alain Gouillard on drums just before saxophonists Fred Staton and Billy Harper played – also special guests from Paris – Francoise Pujol and her Aioli Systeme Band — with Jon Hammond at ZEB’s
Hofheim am Taunus Germany — L to R Heinz Lichius, Joe Berger, Rainer Heute, Jon Hammond in Jazzkeller Hofheim
Youtube http://youtu.be/2GuPD0IctNc
— at Jazzkeller Hofheim
Jon Hammond handbill for shows in Moscow Russia Le Club in Theatre Taganka
Youtube http://youtu.be/-34rP08PwrY
Organist JON HAMMOND in concert with saxophonist IGOR BUTMAN, ALEXEI KUZNETZOV (gtr.), VLADIMIR DANILIN (accordion) & EDUARD ZIZAK (drums) togehter for the first time in MOSCOW RUSSIA at LE CLUB in THEATRE TAGANKA *JENNIFER-Camera, *Special Thanks: FAINA COBHAM *Official Site: http://www.HammondCast.com/
Midori Ono & Jon Hammond at B3 organ in Rug Time Club Osaka Japan
Jon Hammond Band encore shot at Blauer Engel in Kiel Germany
L to R: Heinz Lichius, Joe Berger, Sebastian Gille, Jon Hammond
Recorded on Jon Hammond’s personal SONY TC-366 Tape Recorder – Live Concert of HADES Rock Band at Provo Park – Berkeley CA
Jon Hammond – Hammond organ
Jim Thorsen – guitar vocals
Dave Danza – drums
Steve Wright – bass vocals
Contact Mr. Hammond directly for further information or inquiries about this all original music:
jonhammond@jonhammondband.com
*Project in-progress: http://laterent.blogspot.com/2011/09/bringing-back-sony-tape-recorder-audio.html
Bringing Back Sony Tape Recorder Audio Transfer Project Jon Hammond rock band Hades 1971 recordings Archive at CHRS Radio Clinic at California Historical Radio Society, Elmo disassembles Jon Hammond’s TC-366 tape deck on the bench from Kozo Ohsone Sony Tape Recorder Division to play back 40 year old archive recording Berkeley El Cerrito based band HADES recorded live at Provo Park in Berkeley and at rehearsal garage on Carlson Blvd. Richmond recorded on a TC-366 sound on sound reel to reel tape deck, here is the machine on the bench with Elmo:
*LISTEN TO AUDIO: HammondCast 19 http://archive.org/details/HammondCast_19
HammondCast 19 starts out in Frankfurt Germany recording in AFN Europe Headquarters on one big tube microphone featuring Hungarian tenor saxophone star TONY LAKATOS, now a member of the HR Radio Big Band. And a slow rainy day Blues featuring guitarist JOE BERGER and RAY GRAPPONE drums, Jon on the XB-2 organ/bass. Also a 35 year-old recording of my old rock band HADES and a shout out to the bass player STEVE WRIGHT who is recuperating from a stroke and heart attack but is now starting to speak again, get better Steve! From there to 1995 recording in LE BAR BAT NYC playing Jon’s tune “Pocket Funk”. A song I recorded with Eddie Money that is close to Eddie’s heart: “I’ve Been Lovin’ You Too Long” for all the Eddie Money freaks out there. I just saw Eddie in NY and he’s doin’ fine, still touring in a city near you! And finally ending up back in AFN Europe Headquarters playing Jon Hammond’s theme song: “LATE RENT”, dedicated to YOU of KYOU that your Rent will never be Late! http://www.KYOURADIO.org http://www.HammondCast.com HADES R to L: Steve Wright bass vocals, Jimmy Thorsen guitar vocals, Dave Danza drums, Jon Hammond organ electric piano *continued from Jon Hammond Blog
*Note: There is a hum in this recording that occurred during the transfer to digital, still listenable and eventually I will be making another attempt from the master tape on another machine or when we find the source of the hum on the console used here. – Jon Hammond KYOURADIO.org
Bringing Back Sony Tape Recorder Audio Transfer Project Jon Hammond rock band Hades 1971 recordings Archive at CHRS
Radio Clinic at California Historical Radio Society, Elmo disassembles Jon Hammond’s TC-366 tape deck on the bench from Kozo Ohsone Sony Tape Recorder
Division to play back 40 year old archive recording Berkeley El Cerrito based band HADES recorded live at Provo Park in Berkeley and at rehearsal garage
on Carlson Blvd. Richmond recorded on a TC-366 sound on sound reel to reel tape deck, here is the machine on the bench with Elmo:
Elmo discussing remedy for glazed pinch roller with radio engineer Art Lieberman:
AMPEX 354 Tape Deck in KRE dubbing studio:
CHRS President Steve Kushman at the GATES Audio Board transferring from Analog to Digital:
HammondCast 19 starts out in Frankfurt Germany recording in AFN Europe Headquarters on one big tube microphone featuring Hungarian tenor saxophone star TONY LAKATOS, now a member of the HR Radio Big Band. And a slow rainy day Blues featuring guitarist JOE BERGER and RAY GRAPPONE drums, Jon on the XB-2 organ/bass. Also a 35 year-old recording of my old rock band HADES and a shout out to the bass player STEVE WRIGHT who is recuperating from a stroke and heart attack but is now starting to speak again, get better Steve! From there to 1995 recording in LE BAR BAT NYC playing Jon’s tune “Pocket Funk”. A song I recorded with Eddie Money that is close to Eddie’s heart: “I’ve Been Lovin’ You Too Long” for all the Eddie Money freaks out there. I just saw Eddie in NY and he’s doin’ fine, still touring in a city near you! And finally ending up back in AFN Europe Headquarters playing Jon Hammond’s theme song: “LATE RENT”, dedicated to YOU of KYOU the your Rent will never be Late! http://www.HammondCast.com
HADES R to L: Steve Wright bass vocals, Jimmy Thorsen guitar vocals, Dave Danza drums, Jon Hammond organ electric piano
Earlier version of Hades Blues Works L to R: Jim Thorsen, Jon Hammond Greg Boykin drums R.I.P. Eddie Sanchez, Steve Wright picture outside Carlson Blvd. Richmond rehearsal space, Jerry Figone was manager at that time, road crew – Kent & Gary Leone:
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Joe Berger guitar, Giovanni Gulino drums, Peter Klohmann tenor sax, Jon Hammond Sk1 Hammond Stage Keyboard http://www.jonhammondband.com
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First lucky break for Jon Hammond in Frankfurt Germany appearing on Hessen Report RTL TV with big plug from moderator Beatrix Rief for upcoming shows at Jazzkeller. It was shot on a cold morning in Dec. 1991 in Venety’s on Sandweg in Frankfurt. Special thanks: Beatrix Rief, Tino Pavlis, Frank Poehl http://www.HammondCast.com
Published on Dec 27, 2012
Jon Hammond
Interview Date: January 13, 2011
Job Title: President and Founder
Company: Jon Hammond & Associates
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Jon Hammond has successfully created a career based on his musical talents and his passion for the music industry! As a musician Jon has performed with many legendary players and as a clinician and product artist he has introduced many innovative products to music stores and their customers over the last 30 plus years. Jon is closely identified with the two main products of his career, the Excelsior Accordion and the Digital B3 Organ.
Jon Hammond Interview Date: January 13, 2011 Job Title: President and Founder Jon Hammond & Associates Jon Hammond has successfully created a … of his career, the Excelsior Accordion and the Digital B3Organ. (accordions, electric organs, Hammond B-3, Hammond Organs) KYOURADIO.org
This event will be called:
“The Sound, The Soul, The Summit!”
MC’d by Scott May of Hammond Suzuki USA
The list of Confirmed Artists is as follows:
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Terry Lawless
Chester Thompson
Larry Goldings
Freddie Ravel
Jimmie Smith
Anthony Williams
Marty Grebb
Jon Hammond
Christian Cullen
Michel Benebig
Glen Stewart
2 Jon’s on Radio – Indie Pool: *LISTEN TO THE AUDIO HERE: The Indie Pool: Jon Russell Hosts Jon Hammond Downloaded 512 times http://archive.org/details/JonHammondINDIEPOOLKYOURadioSpecialJonRussellHostingJonHammondofHammondCastShow The Indie Pool: Jon Russell Hosts Jon Hammond KYOURADIO San Francisco CA– Not just another interview show with music. More like an audio magazine that digs deeper so you’ll come away with a better understanding of the featured artists and bands and their music.
Folks, my mighty SONY TC-158SD Portable Cassette recorder is Back on the Scene like an Akio Morita machine!
A couple of adjustments to make and then taking it in the field today for immediate assignment, Jon Hammond
Akio Morita (盛田 昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921, Nagoya, Aichi – October 3, 1999, Tokyo) was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.
Akio Morita was born in the village of Kosugaya, Japan. Morita’s family was involved in sake, miso and soy sauce production in the Chita Peninsula, Aichi Prefecture since 1665. He was the oldest of four siblings and his father Kyuzaemon trained him as a child to take over the family business. Akio, however, found his true calling in mathematics and physics, and in 1944 he graduated from Osaka Imperial University with a degree in physics. He was later commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and served in World War II. During his service, Morita met his future business partner Masaru Ibuka in the Navy’s Wartime Research Committee.
On May 7, 1946, Morita and Ibuka founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, the forerunner of Sony Corporation) with about 20 employees and initial capital of ¥190,000. Ibuka was 38 years old, Morita, 25. Morita’s family invested in Sony during the early period and was the largest shareholder.
In 1949, the company developed magnetic recording tape and in 1950, sold the first tape recorder in Japan. In 1957, it produced a pocket-sized radio (the first to be fully transistorized), and in 1958, Morita and Ibuka decided to rename their company Sony (sonus is Latin for sound, and Sonny-boys the most common American expression).[2] Morita was an advocate for all the products made by the Sony Corporation. However, since the radio was slightly too big to fit in a shirt pocket, Morita made his employees wear shirts with slightly larger pockets to give the radio a “pocket sized” appearance. In 1960, it produced the first transistor television in the world. In 1973, Sony received an Emmy Award for its Trinitron television-set technology. In 1975, it released the first Betamax home video recorder, a year before VHS format came out. In 1979, the Walkman was introduced, making it the world’s first portable music player. In 1984, Sony launched the Discman series which extended their Walkman brand to portable CD products.
In 1960, the Sony Corporation of America (SONAM, currently abbreviated as SCA) was established in the United States. In 1961, Sony Corporation was the first Japanese company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, in the form of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), which are traded over-the-counter. Sony bought CBS Records Group, which consisted of Columbia Records, Epic Records and other CBS labels in 1988 and Columbia Pictures Entertainment (Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures and others) in 1989.
On November 25, 1994, Morita stepped down as Sony chairman after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while playing tennis. He was succeeded by Norio Ohga, who had joined the company in the 1950s after sending Morita a letter denouncing the poor quality of the company’s tape recorders — with Akio Morita
First time to NAMM Show – Suzuki Harmonica artist KOEI TANAKA from Tokyo Japan http://www.tanakakoei.com/ with JOE BERGER aka The Berger-Meister on guitar through Leslie G37 guitar combo amp, SWISS CHRIS getting down with…
Scott May a fine performance…
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Jon Hammond Thanks Scott! Psyched for 2013 Winter NAMM Hammond action, bombs away Jan. 25th! and daily around the premises, have a great weekend, c u soon, Jon
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Scott May gonna rock…
Joe Berger, Scott May and Waichiro Tachikawa like -
Frankfurt Germany — Jon Hammond and Bobby Kimball at 2012 Musikmesse Frankfurt backstage Agora Stage
— with Jon Hammond and Bobby Kimball
Anaheim California — Love this photo! Dan Del Fiorentino, Jay Valle, Jon Hammond –
Winter NAMM Show, lots of years of music history between the 3 of us folks! – JH — — with Jon Hammond at The NAMM Show
Frankfurt Germany — Excelsior Accordion Jam Session with super fantastic Silvia Pagni & Jon Hammond and main man Nello Gabrielloni at Frankfurt Musikmesse
— with Jon Hammond at Musikmesse Frankfurt
Jon Hammond and The Late Rent Session Men Band
Mikell’s 760 Columbus Avenue NYC
L to R: Alex Foster, Chuggy Carter, Jon Hammond, Bernard Purdie, Barry Finnerty http://youtu.be/6FSQrnuKDLU
Jon Hammond Late Rent Session Men with Bernard Purdie drums, Alex Foster sax, Chuggy Carter perc., Barry Finnerty gtr., Jon Hammond at 1959 B3 Organ in MIKELL’S 97th St. & Columbus Ave. NYC, very first hit of 5
night run on a hot summer night in Aug. 1989.
Marijo Johnson Great memories of Mikell’s… I lived right behind it in Park West Village.
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James Allen Jenkins Hey baby, Sonny J is still with you.
November 10 at 11:52am ·
Aris Tsirekas F@..ing A
November 10 at 11:52am ·
Chango Carlier wow!!!
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Le Lude, Pays De La Loire, France
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Tolis Tsotras
Works at Freelance Interior Designer
Jack Joao Potter
Colégio Coração de Jesus
Michael Grammar
Houston, Texas
Jacek Brodowski
Works at Freelance
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Juan del Castillo
Mercer County Community College
Edward Robinson
Queens College
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Works at 某コミュニケーション企業
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Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
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Recording Engineer at Skywalker Sound
Raremusic Man
Works at Hhhhmmmmm
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Songwriter at My Grace Music (SESAC)
Rich Jenkins
Temple University
Harry Spelt
Beatrice Ghiringhelli
Christopher Pritchard
New Windsor, New York
Alex TU-rock
Temple University
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Works at Paymer & Phillips
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Athens, Greece
Cindy Smith Lillard
Lloyd Munroe III
Siegmar Grünberg
Mikell’s was a jazz club on the corner of 97th Street and Columbus Avenue, New York.
Run by Mike Mikell[1] and Pat Mikell, from 1969 to 1991 it was a regular venue for New York’s top studio and session musicians, who would turn up for jam sessions with major soul, funk and jazz artists visiting the city.[2] Paul Shaffer, bandleader for CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman, called Mikell’s “soul heaven”.[2]
Among the performers and bands associated with Mikell’s are Stuff, the alliance of studio musicians that played almost weekly at Mikell’s in the 1970s.[2]
Writer James Baldwin’s brother David worked as a bartender at the club, thereby attracting patronage from Baldwin as well as other authors, including Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka and Maya Angelou.
Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist who co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, performed at Mikell’s in the mid-1970s.
The band Stuff, formed in 1974, was closely associated with Mikell’s, playing there three nights a week until 1980, with jam sessions taking place with visiting soul, jazz and funk stars and singers such as Stevie Wonder and Joe Cocker.
n early 1980, the club served for rehearsals for Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Big Band, which included Wynton Marsalis, and which would result in the live album Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Big Band – Live at Montreux and North Sea (1980).[3] Other artists appearing at the club in the 1980s included Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, Cedar Walton and Mickey Roker (June 1983[4]), Paquito D’Rivera (January 1984[5]).
Mikell’s closed in 1991
John Tropea – Live at Mikell’s New York – Recorded live in 1980, released 1994.
Art Blakey and Jazz Messengers – New York Scene – May 1984
Jon Hammond and Bernard Purdie — enjoy all the videos since 1989 folks!
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Stephen Roth great photo…. you and pretty Purdie
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Michael Augeri Love the pic Bernard..I hope to see you and chat next time you are in Connecticut..All the best..
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Jeanne G Pocius Dorismond You’re still looking PRETTY, Bernard!
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Jeanne G Pocius Dorismond you look good, too, Jon!
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Robbie Furlong Good photo guys..
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Bill Concello damn he purty!!!!!
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Valley Stream, New York
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HAM-BERGER-HEINZ Song, 1st Play Soundcheck Jazzkeller Hofheim 3/31/2007
Jon Hammond (XK-1 Organ) wrote the tune in New York and brought it in first time play-down at soundcheck for 10th annual Jazzkeller Hofheim gig “After Musikmesse Party”. Add the driving Rock Drums of Heinz Lichius (from Hamburg) with Joe Berger on Guitar (from New York) and you have “Ham-Berger-Heinz Song” played by Trio: Jon HAMmond, Joe BERGER, Heinz Lichius…
Berkeley CA — Clarence Hairston my friend guitar player from EastBay Workshop at Holiday Party earlier this evening, we played a few tunes – Jon Hammond
Main Man Tambuzi Carroll Leader of EastBay Jazz Workshop making an announcement at Holiday Party this evening – Jon Hammond
Jon Hammond Band in Hamburg Germany at Jazzclub Birdland performing original composition by Jon Hammond – WHITE ONIONS
Lutz Buechner tenor saxophone
Heinz Lichius drums
Joe Berger guitar
Jon Hammond organ
Jazz Workshop with Jon Hammond Band – NDR Info, MNNTV
funky soul jazz blues instrumental spirited performance, return engagement here at Jazzclub Birdland with many friends in the house. Special thanks Dieter Reichert, Ralph Reichert, NDR Radio
Jon Hammond Trio Opener at Bill Graham’s Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco
Something told me I better go down and see Lou last week R.I.P. Louis Colombo the Greatest from Jon Hammond
Posted on December 15, 2012
Folks, something told me I had better get on down to see my main man Lou Colombo last week
in Fort Myers FL, I played on Lou’s band for 2.5 years in Cape Cod at the Wychmere Harbor Club
and Thompson’s Clam Bar in Harwich Port MA. It was an important time of my life and career and
he was always very generous to me, kept me on my toes throwing tunes at me in all keys the music
never stopped once we hit.
I just saw Lou a few days ago in Fort Myers FL at the gig he was playing at his Daughter Sherri’s restaurant
and hub Marc Neeley – Roadhouse Cafe, he was at the top of his game, playing great as ever and looking like a
million dollars. I am deeply saddened to receive terrible tragic news this morning from Lou’s fine trombonist
Nelson E. Foucht that Lou was tragically killed last night just 4 blocks from Roadhouse Cafe coming home from the
gig. My deepest condolences to the Colombo Family, Lou’s Wife Noel, daughters Lori, Sherri, David all his 6 kids, extended
Family of friends and musicians. I am totally blown away, thankful that I had the opportunity to know him and play with
him nightly back in the 70′s and then to see and hear him again at the end of his life, thanks Lou!
Francoise Pujol and Band special performance on 9/11 and Jon Hammond Journal
HammondCast 202 The Jon Hammond Show audio from Jon Hammond’s radio program special retrospective with audio from a recording he made while on the house band led by Lou Colombo at The Wychmere Harbor Club in Harwich Port Cape Cod MA in 1978. Jon made the recording with his Nakamichi 550 tape deck, it is a remarkable recording of the Lou Colombo Band which played nightly for luminaries such as Speaker of The House Tip O’Neill for all his private parties and the Kennedy Clan.
Jon Hammond original composition “Six Year Itch” from Jon’s album
“Hammond’s Bolero” – here in Louisville Kentucky at soundcheck
with Ronnie Smith Jr. drums
Alex Budman tenor saxophone
John Bishop guitar
Jon Hammond organ http://www.jonhammondband.com/
JH INTL ASCAP
Newessbar Hamburg Get Back In The Groove Tribute to 9/11
Posted on December 15, 2012
*WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Newessbar Hamburg Get Back In The Groove Tribute to 9/11
Newessbar Hamburg Get Back In The Groove Tribute to 9/11 Jon Hammond Band
Lutz Buechner tenor sax
Heinz Lichius drums
Joe Berger guitar
Jon Hammond Sk1 Hammond organ
Original composition by Jon Hammond International ASCAP
Jon Hammond wishes everybody a very happy Holidays and New Years 2013, New Year is
almost here!
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Jon Hammond for Alcatel-Lucent / Bell Labs:
“On stage, on television or on the radio waves everyday I feel lucky because I’m ALWAYS ON!
Jon Hammond
Musician, television personality and radio broadcaster Jon Hammond boarded a Concorde in 1981 to travel from New York to Paris at supersonic speed, and he never slowed down.
Jon travels the world, touring in Europe and Asia two or three times each year while broadcasting his “HammondCast” morning radio show seven days a week. At home in the United States, Jon splits his time between New York City and San Francisco and performs four to five concerts each month at local hospitals, nursing homes and prisons. His cable television program, “The Jon Hammond Show,” is in its 25th year and going strong.
“In my business, it’s essential to be contactable 24/7. I couldn’t organize as much as I do without being ALWAYS ON.”
Inspired by the Beatles and fascinated by the radio (he built a crystal radio at the age of five), Jon knew he was destined to be a musician. Although that’s a departure from tradition – Jon’s father and grandfather were physicians – Jon carries on the family business in his own way by performing in some of the very hospitals where his father once practiced medicine.
“I’ve seen people get out of their wheelchairs and dance more times than I can count, so I’m happy I can make a difference playing for those who are less fortunate than me.”
Jon has not forgotten those who opened doors for him when he was first starting out in music and broadcasting, and now he uses his radio and cable television shows to do the same for deserving young talent.
Like Jon, we at Alcatel-Lucent are passionate about connecting people through communications technology. In our Bell Labs locations around the world, we’re working on new and exciting innovations in next-generation broadband technology to ensure people like Jon can find even more creative ways to share music, moments and memories. http://www.HammondCast.com
Joe Berger knows sound! Joe has been mixing sound for over 30 years and he stopped counting at 35,000 bands! Also a virtuoso guitar player with his own definitive, unique playing style and “ear”, Joe has jammed with the likes of John Entwistle and Jack Bruce. He has also been a fixture at music trade shows for decades as a guitar demonstrator, having set a record for most hours played at a single trade show.
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NAMM Show… — with Joe Berger at The NAMM Show
PIA Flight Deck Footage and Singing of Star Spangled Banner Paki American Friendship Day http://youtu.be/G1-Nh_oteRsF
Personally shot film by Jon Hammond while on tour in Germany and in cockpit of PIA 747 Jumbo (Pakistan International Airlines) flying with Paki VIP’s to New York for Pakistan – American Friendship Day Celebration with singing of our National Anthem “The Star Spangled Banner” and showing of patriotism that will touch your heart. This is a must-see. Look closely for quick cameo appearances of radio legend Al Jazzbeaux Collins and Ruth Messinger former Manhattan Borough President.
*Note: Jon Hammond would like to say a special thanks to Pakistan International Airlines Crew…
Picnic Lunch Time with my late great bandleader / trumpet player Lou Colombo and Family at their house in South Yarmouth Cape Cod, circa 1978 – Mrs. Colombo serving, merci beaucoup…and thank you Lori Colombo & Colombo Family, Jon Hammond *Note: Just back from the golf course – gig that night at Wychmere Harbor Club where we were the house band at the time with Frank Shea drums and Jack Pena guitar – JH http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151108722192102&set=a.61160682101.82732.558692101&type=1
Lori Colombo I love this Jon. Are you sure that’s me???I can’t remember this at all. That’s great. Thank you for posting.
October 13 at 8:12pm ·
Ted Casher Oh, the days of plaid knit pants…..we were all much younger. WE ARE GOING TO KEEP MAKING MUSIC UNTIL WE GET IT RIGHT!!!1
Kareem Sanjaghi
Boston College
Yashko Golembiovsky
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (ACA)
Tanner Roy Stening
Fort Myers, Florida
Mike Garvan
Brewster, Massachusetts
Kenneth Guerra
DLSP San Pablo City
Diana De Sarrazin
Ulrich Vormehr
Frankfurt, Germany
Ginny Rand Conroy
Innkeeper at Salt Winds Bed & Breakfast
Dennis Cook
Berklee College of Music
Happy Channukah 2012 / Jewish Holiday Calendar 5773 from NYC folks! We have a huge Menorah in our building in Manhattan, Jon Hammond
The president said the menorah stood as one of the “powerful symbols of [the Hanukkah] spirit” in brief remarks before around 600 guests. The lamp, crafted of solid brass, was saved from the Temple Israel of Long Beach. The house of worship was badly damaged as the hurricane battered the New York coast.
“I’m willing to bet it will survive another 90 years, and another 90 years after that,” the president said. “Tonight it serves as another symbol of perseverance.”
Obama, who was joined by first lady Michelle Obama, added that on the sixth night of the Jewish holiday, “we pray its light will bring victims of Sandy and all Americans to a brighter tomorrow.”
The menorah was lit by Rabbi Larry Bazer, an Afghanistan war veteran. Obama noted that Bazer had been deployed in Kabul, Afghanistan, as a military chaplain over the last Hanukkah, joking he had turned down an invitation to the White House ceremony.
“We don’t get that very often,” Obama said. “Usually when we invite people they come.”
Entertainment for the event was provided by the West Point Jewish Chapel Cadet Choir and the U.S. Marine Chamber Orchestra.
Ulm Germany — Michael Falkenstein and Jon Hammond with Michael’s Father’s special limited edition “Dreamliner” Volkswagen Van
Joe Berger
King at Self employed
Daniel Rogue
Le Lude, Pays De La Loire, France
Massimo Casati
Marina Schiele
Works at Hotel Lago
Massimo Manzi
Liceo classico alatri(fr)
Gol D Dome
Ulm, Germany
Hans Torbijn
Sint Paulus Mulo Vlissingen
Yoichiro Hamahara
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Hamburg Germany — Gotta’ go gotta’ go gotta’ go right now (Female) – Jon Hammond
Barry Finnerty ·
… or maybe she’s just shy.
Hamburg Germany — Gotta’ go gotta’ go gotta’ go right now (formal Man) – Jon Hammond
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HammondCast 20 Broadcasting today from Las Vegas Nevada in the Mirage Hotel, 2 ballads from my new recordings at NDR Radio Studio 1: “Skylark” and “Easy Living” with LUTZ BUCHNER (alto sax), JOE GALLARDO (trombone), HEINZ LICHIUS (drums) and myself JON HAMMOND on the new XK-3 Hammond Organ, mixed by NDR Engineer RUDY GROSSER. From there we go to San Francisco County Jail #8 “Pod E” where the ladies in CJ8 joined us during my song “Pocket Funk” with a chorus of: “Funky Stuff…In Your Pocket”! And 2 original selections from my album Late Rent, my theme song “Late Rent” and the original studio version of “Pocket Funk” and the story of how I recorded them in the same studio John Lennon had been recording in in winter 1983 at Intergalactic Studios in New York City. HammondCast 20 for KYOU Radio, San Francisco California-1550 on the AM dial and on the web at: http://www.kyouradio.comhttp://www.HammondCast.com Organist/Accordionist Jon Hammond is a member of Local 802/Local 6 Musicians Union and an ASCAP Artist & Publisher: JON HAMMOND International
The great Boxer Floriano Pagliara aka Floriano L’Italiano Pagliara flanked by big Mike Warren and Jon Hammond at Mike’s wonderful Cupcake Cafe on Ninth Avenue New York City – Check out Floriano’s webiste folks:
and Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floriano_Pagliara
Floriano Pagliara (Marbach am Neckar, 31 dicembre 1978) è un pugile italiano, nato in Germania, ma cresciuto a Cecina.
Nonostante la Germania gli abbia dato i natali e il cognome tradisca origini pugliesi, Floriano è cresciuto a Cecina (LI). Floriano Pagliara inizia a praticare il pugilato all’età di 15 anni presso la Boxe Cecina; un anno e otto mesi dopo disputa il suo primo incontro da dilettante ottenendo subito un successo.
Da allora ben 55 incontri da dilettante (41 vittorie, 4 pareggi e 10 sconfitte), tra cui due con la maglia della nazionale italiana (2004). Nel palmares del pugile cecinese anche due vittorie del Torneo Internazionale di Cremona, 10 titoli regionali (dal 1995 al 2005) e due secondi posti ai campionati italiani assoluti.
Passaggio al professionismo
L to R: Vladi Jäggi, Bill Cobham, Jon Hammond on Day 1 of 2012 Frankfurt Musikmesse looking good! and sounding good!!
Bernard Purdie drums on Jon Hammond and The Late Rent Session Men band at Mikell’s 760 Columbus Avenue at 97th Street Youtube http://youtu.be/t-s8mhNIrtc
R.I.P. Cornell Dupree aka ‘Mr. 2500′ (records)! Jon Hammond at Mikell’s 73,241
Jon Hammond – my 1959 B3 organ, Bernard Purdie drums, Chuggy Carter percussion at Mikell’s NYC http://www.jonhammondband.com/ circa 1989 Mikell’s http://en.wikipedia.o…See More — with Bernard Purdie and Bernard Purdie at 760 Columbus Avenue New York City
Some guitar players make funny faces when they play and are really in to it. Here is one, Barry Finnerty – August 28th, 1989 Mikell’s – Youtube http://youtu.be/aCPtWHqHVaE
LATE RENT Theme Mikell’s JON HAMMOND Late Rent Session Men
Jon Hammond Theme Song played by The original Late Rent Session Men, Bernard Purdie drums, Barry Finnerty guitar, Chuggy Carter perc., Jon Hammond at his 1959 B3 Organ in a 1989 performance August 29th at Mikell’s, 760 Columbus Avenue at 97th St.
Ludovic Beier my favorite Accordionist is back in town at Birdland for the annual Django Reinhardt Festival with the incredible Dorado Schmitt and his family of jazz hot musicians – catch them while you can folks! Some of the best music I have heard in a long time. I am going to their
concert also in San Francisco Saturday, November 17 at the Herbst Theatre. – Jon Hammond
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Veterans Day Electric American Flag Tribute Jon’s Journal November 12 2012
Electric American Flag Video by LORI from Jon Hammond Show – Honoring our fearless and brave veterans on this Veterans Day here in the Land of the Free – Manhattan NYC – thanks and deep gratitude to all of them!
Sincerely, Jon Hammond *Member American Federation of Musicians Local 802 / Local 6 / ASCAP
America’s pride The Blue Angels here at SFO to perform fearlessly in honor of Fleet Week 2012 with support from United Airlines Team at United Family Day very special annual event, special thanks to all these fine folks it takes to make it happen. From the Firefighters, to the Mechanics, Air Controllers, Crew, Food Preparations even the Imperial Storm Troopers from Star Wars were on hand for this very special family day – with music here from The Jon Hammond Band with special guest Lee Oskar harmonica, recent performance in Frankfurt Germany at the famous Jazzkeller “Tribute to 9/11 – Get Back In The Groove” Tony Lakatos tenor sax, Giovanni Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar, Jon Hammond at Sk1 organ, enjoy folks! Sincerely, Jon Hammond http://www.HammondCast.com
Serious Press Conference with Mayor Ed Koch at the giant Diamond Vision TV Screen at corner of 47th Str. & Broadway by the TKTS Youtube http://youtu.be/qBjLUT-0vUM
An incredible Press Conference with NY Mayor ED KOCH as seen on The Jon Hammond Show Jon HammondndCast in Times Square NYC on Mitsubishi DiamondVision! Jon made a deal with Mitsubishi to have his TV show with Video by LORI on the big DiamondVision Times Sq. screen (First big-screen outdoor TV!) for 1 and half years, 80-times-a-day including the famous New Years Countdown seen on Dick Clark’s ABC Broadcast 2 consecutive years *with commentary by Jon Hammond..AND a cameo appearance in the crowd with Nikon! *Info: http://www.HammondCast.com/ this is a must-see! – JH — with Ed Koch
Love this shot! James Brown was a soulful organ player as well folks! Here on a very special visit to his God Son of Soul Michael Falkenstein at the birthplace of Hammond Germany – Hammond Studio Setzingen, blowin’ smoke! – Jon Hammond
Youtube http://youtu.be/YsIvjWvt-p0
James Brown the Godfather of Soul with his actual God Son Michael Falkenstein.
The incredible story of the bond between them, the story can only be told in words by Michael, but a picture tells a thousand words, and here we have 44 images from behind the scenes with this outstanding and soulful young organist who was befriended by the late great James Brown over a period 20 years until Mr. Brown’s untimely death. James Brown and his personal entourage made a special journey to Michael’s family house in the tiny village of Setzingen ‘kleines dorf’ nearby Ulm Germany, in the middle of night in 2 white limousines so that Mr. Brown could meet Michael’s mother, father and his sister Martina. Here you will see the photos that have never before been shown as James Brown has cake with the family and enjoys immensely playing soul music together with Michael in their house and Hammond Organ Studio Germany, which is one of the greatest Hammond organ museums in all of the world, built by Michael’s father Professor Klaus Maier and Michael together as a tribute to Laurens Hammond founder of Hammond Instrument Company and clocks of Chicago ILL
The story will be forthcoming as soon as Michael can bring himself to write it as he is still mourning the loss of his Godfather James Brown R.I.P. enjoy these never-before-seen photos and original music recording of Michael “Time With You” as heard on Jon Hammond’s HammondCast Show KYOU Radio — with James Brown and Michael Falkenstein
BackBeat Productions Presents – The Jon Hammond Show!
28th year, now on MNN TV
*The Chicago Special http://youtu.be/IJHHdPNoHow
Now in 28th year on Cable Access TV – The Jon Hammond Show, this
particular episode is known as the Chicago Special
which includes one song from Tim Cain I played Hammond organ on called I Saw You with some vocal help by Bill Champlin recorded by rjm productions, then to Chicago Summer NAMM Show where I personally filmed the very first performance of the late great bassist John Entwistle with band Rat Race Choir which happened at The Vic Theatre June 29, 1987, (same night) followed by Leslie West with T.M. Stevens bass, watch Leslie’s face when smoke machine goes! Then a little bit of Bag End Party at Park West with Joe Berger, T.M. Stevens, Tal Bergman and Theodus Rogers. And of course JH Show Theme Song “Late Rent” – enjoy folks, this one is a classic! Jon Hammond http://www.HammondCast.com/
*Note: Joe Berger personally introduced his friend John Entwistle to Rat Race Choir band, John came all the way from London on Joe’s recommendation – JH
Bicycle Boy – circa 1982 – Jon Hammond New York NY – yes and for short time I was a bicycle messenger, until the dispatcher wanted to dispatch me to Brooklyn on the hottest day in history, then I quit – JH
The Hardest Working Man In Show Business – James Brown
James Brown Band circa 1982 at Bimbo’s 365 – San Francisco California – Jon Hammond *main man Hollie Farris hardest working trumpet player long-long-time band member in this great lineup folks! – JH — with Hollie Farris
The late great basssist of The WHO – John Entwistle and Jon Hammond http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Entwistle
John Alec Entwistle (9 October 1944 – 27 June 2002) was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, horn player, and film and record producer who was best known as the bass player for the rock band The Who. His aggressive lead sound influenced many rock bass players.[1][2] He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who in 1990.
Folks, this is the famous actual plastic plate that I shared peanuts while drinking copious amounts of the best Cognac with the late great John Entwistle *see sig – and my long-time friend & musical associate Joe Berger when Joe introduced me to John Entwistle in 1987 in a suite at the Frankfurt Marriott Hotel the night before my very first Musikmesse – rest in peace John! It was a defining time in my life to meet John, who had also been an enormous influence on own playing and personal musical taste & style.
I had the good fortune thanks to Joe to work on several projects with John, some of which are still in the works folks. This is not just any plastic plate – Jon Hammond — with John Entwistle
2 of my favorite horn players – this is the 2 man section right here: Earl Gardner trumpet and Alex Foster saxophone
backstage at NBC Saturday Night Live Show
- Jon Hammond — with Alex Foster and Alex Foster at Saturday Night Live- NBC Studio 8H, Rockefeller Center
Jon Hammond – Saturday Night Live 15 a few years ago
21 Year old Jon Hammond self portrait 1974 while attending Berklee College of Music Boston
Guitarist Joe Berger playing for Engl Amplifiers at Frankfurt Musikmesse ’87 – those are the 2 Engl brothers, Horst and the other cat I can never remember his name (I think it’s like “Egon” or something like that)
- this was 1987 when they were a tiny
little company. Now they are a big player. Good work launching those cats Joe! — with Joe Berger at Musikmesse Frankfurt
Taking the Mercedes to the shop – Jon Hammond
Paris France — Rest In Peace (2) my friends, the great jazz drummer Oliver Johnson http://www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=1016637285 Born: December 5, 1944 in Oakland, California
Died: March 6, 2002 in Paris, France and RIP Francois Chassignite the great trumpet player band leader, died very young very suddenly sadly – Jon Hammond
*article:
Oliver Johnson was a noted participant in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, but was a versatile and adaptable performer in many settings. He settled in Paris in the late-60s. He worked with a number of major figures from the free and experimental scene, including Anthony Braxton, Dewey Redman, Sam Rivers, Archie Shepp, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and David Murray, as well as more mainstream players, including Hampton Hawes, Bobby Hutcherson, Maynard Ferguson, Yusef Lateef, Atilla Zoller and Johnny Griffin. He worked regularly with saxophonist Steve Lacy between 1978-89. He co-led the trio TOK with Takashi Kako and Kent Carter. His body was discovered on a bench near Les Halles.
Youtube http://youtu.be/W0Tc_9BI3mM
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1988 Jazz Concert musé d’art moderne in paris: Francois Chassagnite trp., Oliver Johnson drms, Jean Bardy bs, Arnaud Mattei piano as seen on The Jon Hammond Show TV Show and HammondCast — with Joe Berger
My beautiful Giulietti Classic 127 electric accordion (and me playing it) in 1975) – this is the same accordion I played when I won Jr. Jazz Championship in 1966 – Jon Hammond *Note: Somebody came through my window in Boston while I was attending Berklee College of Music there and they stole my Giulietti Accordion
John DeLorean when we met just casually walking down Fifth Avenue – very nice cat, rest in peace! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeLorean
John Zachary DeLorean (January 6, 1925 – March 19, 2005) was an American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry, most notably with General Motors, and founder of the DeLorean Motor Company.
He was best known for developing the Pontiac GTO muscle car, the Pontiac Firebird, Pontiac Grand Prix, and the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car, which was later featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future, and for his high profile 1982 arrest on charges of drug trafficking. The alleged drug trafficking was supposedly an attempt to raise funds for his struggling company, which declared bankruptcy that same year. He successfully defended himself against the drug trafficking charges, showing that his alleged involvement was a result of entrapment by federal agents.
John Zachary DeLorean was born on January 6, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan, the eldest of four sons of Zachary and Kathryn Pribak DeLorean.
This poster is framed under glass on my wall in New York – I had the pleasure of playing organ as special guest with Musical Director and Drummer Danny Woody and his great jazz band at the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Shanghai Centre China during the Music Messefrankfurt Music-China, we had some very special guests there – including Mayor Willie Brown (San Francisco CA) who I had just seen in San Francisco at the birthday party of the Honorable Terence Hallinan when I played for then District Attorney Terence (Nancy Pelosi was there, I met her also, very nice!) on the band with Danny was a great lineup of veteran NY jazz bass player – Alex Layne, great singer LaDee Streeter, Dr. Dwight Dickerson at the piano and myself at the Hammond organ – nice! Thanks Danny! Jon Hammond
Youtube http://youtu.be/nJFWMjIMh9I
Shanghai PORTMAN RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL Jazz Movie
Shanghai PORTMAN RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL Jazz Movie
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Organist JON HAMMOND teams up with DANNY WOODY in this rollicking JAZZ MOVIE at Shanghai PORTMAN RITZ CARLTON HOTEL Jazz Bar *Featuring the entertaining vocalist LaDEE STREETER (Stevie Wonder backup voc.), Dr. DWIGHT DICKERSON-piano, ALEX LAYNE-bs. JON HAMMOND-organ, DANNY WOODY-musical director/drums. Special performance for SUPERLUX Microphones “JON HAMMOND’S MUSIC CHINA WARM UP PARTY” annual sister trade show of MUSIKMESSE & NAMM.Some Big Tippers were in the house that night! Great Jazzy Shuffle Blues with m.d. Danny Woody and Jon Hammond 1st of 4 years, enjoy! *Note: Danny Woody is also the famous Restorer & Vendor of Chinese Military Sidecar Motorcycles Chang Jiang: California Dreamin’ in Shanghai – Newsweek June 28 issue – Venice Beach native Danny Woody is living the California dream. He drms in a jazz band at night, then tours motorcycle shops by day. “But who would have imagined,” he says, “that I’d be doing it in Shanghai!”Woody, 59, is a fixture at the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel lounge, but his real claim to fame is a motorbike with sidecar on display in the lobby. The Chang Jiang is a Chinese knockoff of the classic 1930s BMW R-71. During World War II, the Germans gave the design to Russia, which passed it to China. Woody fell in love with it on a 1998 trip to Beijing. He bought one, and another. Soon, he had shops refurbishing them. Now he’s a top vendor of the bikes, which have a global cult following. In 2003 he sold two dozen for about $10,000 each. “It’s not really a dream job, more like a nightmare,” he quips http://www.vsidecars.com/home/current/page1/ http://www.HammondCast.com/ Jon Hammond is Host of daily CBS Radio show “Jon Hammond’s Afternoon Slide” on KYCY/KYOU 1550 AM *Official Broadcast Home of the Oakland A’s. *Note: San Francisco MAYOR WILLIE BROWN was in the house..Shanghai & San Francisco Sister Cities! — with Alex Layne, Danny Woody and LaDee Streeter at The Portman Ritz Carlton Shanghai China.
Jon Hammond and The Late Rent Session Men Band
Mikell’s 760 Columbus Avenue NYC
L to R: Alex Foster, Chuggy Carter, Jon Hammond, Bernard Purdie, Barry Finnerty http://youtu.be/6FSQrnuKDLU
Jon Hammond Late Rent Session Men with Bernard Purdie drums, Alex Foster sax, Chuggy Carter perc., Barry Finnerty gtr., Jon Hammond at 1959 B3 Organ in MIKELL’S 97th St. & Columbus Ave. NYC, very first hit of 5 …See More — with Alex Foster, Leslie J. Carter, Jon Hammond, Bernard Purdie and Barry Finnerty
Bernard Purdie drums at Zanzibar and Grill on gig I played with Bernard 22 years ago with the late great tenor saxophonist David Fathead Newman Youtube http://youtu.be/4YaChOk6K2Q
This picture is from a gig I played with Bernard Purdie and David Fathead Newman in Zanzibar And Grill New York City May 17th 1990. I had my double stack of Leslie 122 speakers with the B3 that night. Fun gig!
Youtube http://youtu.be/5aMZi87Fr7c
David Fathead Newman plays Georgia Jon Hammond B3 organ Bernard Purdie drums
Veteran’s Day, Musikmesse, 21 year old, Bicycle Boy, Berklee College of Music, Organ, Accordion, Local 802, Musicians Union, Bernard Purdie, Zanzibar, Mikell’s
Jon Hammond Local 802 Photos by the great Jazz Photographer Elmar Lemes
New York NY — Organist Jon Hammond playing with bassist Bob Cunningham at Local 802 Monday night Jazz Session – photo by the great Jazz Photographer Elmar Lemes — with Bob Cunningham at Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM
First-time ever Midi Accordion controlling Hammond Organ played (with bass lines on the buttons!) by JON HAMMOND Blues Band at JAZZKELLER Frankfurt. With sponsorship from Philip Morris, Jon was able to fly guitarist BARRY FINNERTY in from New York. Joined by DERRICK JAMES (alto sax), ALAIN NAU (drums), UWE GEHRING aka WESLEY G (guitar). Mixed live (under the piano with some guy blowing cigar smoke in his face) JOE BERGER. *special thanks: SENNHEISER Microphones, Hammond Suzuki, EUGEN HAHN Jazzkeller. **Note: Guitarist HERB ELLIS was sitting next to bandstand in front during Frankfurt Musikmesse. Jon Hammond plays Excelsior Accordions & Hammond Organs *Official site: http://www.jonhammondband.com
Keys To Happiness – Jon Hammond for Excelsior Accordions Times Square New York
Hollywood CA–
JEFF LYNNE, HEART’S ANN & NANCY WILSON, WYCLEF JEAN, CHAKA KHAN, RICKY SKAGGS honored at annual ASCAP “I Create Music Expo” with coverage by ASCAP Member Publisher Jon Hammond on Hammond’s daily radio program HammondCast Show on KYOU Radio. Also Narada Michael Walden, Holly Knight, Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman, CEO, Creative Services/Lifestyle – Hunnypot Unlimited
Ricky Skaggs
Narada Michael Walden
Jon Hammond broadcasting from I Create Music Expo with Sennheiser HD25-1 headphones and Neumann microphones
Jon Hammond with Seth Saltzman “I Create Music Expo” 2009
ASCAP President Paul Williams and Jon Hammond “I Create Music Expo” 2009
Jon Hammond and Ken Cicerale at ASCAP Awards Dinner and Reception Hollywood CA http://www.jonhammondband.com/news.html
Betsy Anthony
Senior Manager, Creative and Writer Services – Bug Music/Windswept Holdings
Phil Antoniades
COO and Co-Founder – Nimbit Inc.
Antonina Armato
Songwriter, Producer – “Seven Things,” “See You Again,” “I Still Believe,” “Bet on It”
Patrick Arn
Founder – Gotham Records and Gotham Music Placement
Billy Austin
Owner – Tuniverse Records
Publisher – Platinum Pen Publishing
Songwriter – “Leave The Pieces,” “99.9% Sure (I’ve Never Been Here Before)” “Put Your Best Dress On”
Johntá Austin
Songwriter – “Shake It Off,” “We Belong Together,” “Be Without You,” “Poppin’”
Cindy Badell-Slaughter
President – Heavy Hitters Music Group
Gary Baker
Songwriter, Producer – “I Swear,” “I’m Already There,” “Once Upon A Lifetime,” “Anywhere For You”
Martin Bandier
Chairman and CEO – Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Eric Bazilian
Songwriter, Performer – “One Of Us,” “Kiss The Rain,” “Private Emotion,” “All You Zombies”
Eric Beall
VP, A&R – Shapiro Bernstein & Co
Author – The Billboard Guide To Writing and Producing Songs That Sell: How To Create Hits In Today’s Music Industry
Natasha Bedingfield
Songwriter, Performer – “Unwritten,” “Pocketful of Sunshine,” “Love Like This,” “These Words”
Richard Bellis
Author – The Emerging Film Composer
Composer – One Special Night, Stephen King’s IT,Above and Beyond
Tony Berg
Musician, Producer, Music Executive – Air Supply, Aimee Mann, Peter Gabriel
Marilyn Bergman
Academy & Grammy Award-winning lyricist – “The Windmills of Your Mind,” “The Way We Were,” “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” Film: Yentl
Stephen Bishop
Songwriter, Performer – “On and On,” “Separate Lives,” “Save It For A Rainy Day” Film: Animal House
Sat Bisla
Founder/President – A&R Worldwide and MUSEXPO; Host, Music Programmer – Indie103.1′s Passport Approved
Tim Blacksmith
Co-Manager – Stargate
Brian “BK” Kennedy
Producer, Songwriter – “My Love,” “Distrurbia,” “If This Isn’t Love,” “It’s Over”
Chaka Khan
Performer, Songwriter – “I’m Every Woman,” “Angel,” “Through the Fire,” The Woman I Am
Dan Kimpel
Music Journalist, Author – How They Made It: True Stories of How Music’s Biggest Stars Went to Stardom, Networking in the Music Business
Emanuel Kiriakou
Songwriter, Producer – “Crush,” “What’s Left of Me,” “A Million Miles,” “2 in the Morning”
Brandon Kitchen
Creative, A&R – Artist Publishing Group (A Division of Warner/Chappell Publishing)
Sam Kling
VP, A&R and Film & TV – peermusic
Holly Knight
Songwriter, Producer, Performer – “Simply The Best,” “Love Is A Battlefield,” “Better Be Good To Me”
Greg Kurstin
Songwriter, Producer, Performer – “The Fear,” “Wow,” “Again and Again,” “Haven’t Got a Clue”
Kevin Kusatsu
A&R – Columbia Records
Ron Laffitte
Artist Manager, OneRepublic, Chris Cornell, Good Charlotte, The Decemberists, Sum 41 – Red Light Management
Jimmy R. Landry
Producer, Engineer, Songwriter; A&R Consultant – Cakewalk
Brian Lapin
Composer – TV: Gossip Girl, Joey, 20/20
Music Production Team – The Transcenders
Philip Lawrence
Songwriter, Artist, Vocalist – “Right Round,” “You,” “Everything is Everything”
Thomas Lee
Professor, Director of Bands, Conductor – UCLA Wind Ensemble
Lenka
Songwriter, Performer, Actress – “The Show,” “Don’t Let Me Fall,” “Trouble Is a Friend”
Alejandro Lerner
Songwriter, Performer – “Hoy Es Adios,” “Todo A Pulmon”
Leeds Levy
President – Leeds Music
JR Lindsey
Creative Director, Urban Music, A&R – Chrysalis Music Publishing
Glenn Litwak, Esq.
Attorney – Law Offices of Litwak & Havkin
Steven Lowy, Esq.
Attorney, Partner – Isaacman, Kaufman & Painter
LeToya Luckett
Songwriter, Performer, Actress – “Not Anymore,” “Torn,” “U Got What I Need,” “All Eyes on Me”
Ankur Malhotra
A&R, Urban/Pop – Capitol Records
Johnny Mandel
Composer, Arranger, Producer – “The Shadow of Your Smile,” “Emily,” TV Theme: M*A*S*H
Craig Marks
Music Director, Music Editor – HorseTV
Composer – TV: Iron Chef America
Andy Marvel
Songwriters – “Shy Guy,” “Treat Her Like A Lady,” “With You,” “One Good Man”
Richard Marx
Songwriter, Artist, Producer – “Dance With My Father,” “Right Here Waiting,” “Don’t Mean Nothing,” “Better Life”
Gabe McDonough
Senior Producer, Music and Integration – DDB Chicago
Jonathan McHugh
Film & TV Music and Record Company Executive
Tracy McKnight
VP, Film Music – Lionsgate
Vince Mendoza
Composer, Arranger, Conductor – Start Here , Some Skunk Funk
Andre Merritt
Songwriter – “Disturbia,” “Forever”
Mateo Messina
Composer – Film: Juno, Hit & Run, Thank You For Smoking TV: The Office
Marcus Miller
Composer, Producer – “Power of Love,” M2, Tutu, The Woman I Am
Bambi Moé
Co-Owner – Courgette Records
Owner, Music Licensing – Unencumbered Productions
Chris Montan
President – Walt Disney Music
Lennie Moore
Composer – Games: Magic the Gathering, Dirty Harry, War of the Ring, Outcast
Michael Morgan
Conductor – Oakland East Bay Symphony
Nicole Morier
Songwriter, Producer – “Rock Me In,” “If He Should Ever Leave You,” “Heaven On Earth”
Walter Murphy
Composer, Arranger – “A Fifth of Beethoven” TV: Family Guy, American Dad Film: Foodfight!
Mark Needham
Mixer, Producer – The Killers, Iglu & Hartly, Metro Station
Joey Newman
Composer – TV: Little People, Big World, Privileged, Once & Again, Providence
Melinda Newman
Journalist
Pamela Phillps Oland
Songwriter – “Nobody Loves Me Like You Do,” “If Ever A Love There Was,” “Digga Digga Dog,” “Monday Morning Quarterback”
Frank J. Oteri
Editor – NewMusicBox.org, American Music Center
Composer – Machunas, Fair and Balanced?, Imagined Overtures
Jake Ottmann
VP, Creative, East Coast – EMI Music Publishing
David Paich
President – Hudmar Inc.
Songwriter, Composer, Producer – “Africa,” “Rosanna,” “Got to be Real” Film: Dune
Stacey Palm
EVP, Creative – Opus 19 Music LLC
Todd Parker
A&R – Interscope Records
Engineer, Mixer
Don Passman, Esq.
Attorney, Partner – Gang, Tyre, Ramer, and Brown, Inc.
Author – All You Need to Know About the Music Business
Stephen Paulus
Composer – Sea Portraits Opera: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Nancy Peacock
Partner, Manager – Slugfest Records Nashville
President – Washington Street Publishing
Songwriter
Danny Poku
Co-Manager – Stargate
Amy Powers
President – Powers That Be Inc.
Songwriter – “Shine,” “Not Just Make Believe” Broadway: Sunset Blvd., Zhivago
Pat Prescott
DJ, Co-Host – Brian McKnight Morning Show (KTWV 94.7 FM, LA)
Kyra Reed
Principal – MarKyr Media
Author – Blog 101
Jason Reeves
Singer, Songwriter – “Bubbly,” “Realize,” The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache (and Other Frightening Tales)
Andrea Remanda
Songwriter, Singer – Film: “Never Gonna Break My Faith” (Bobby), “Quest for Love” (Arthur & The Invisibles)
David Renzer
Chairman and CEO – Universal Music Publishing Group
Janet Billig Rich
Owner, Manager – Manage This Media
Lindy Robbins
Songwriter – “What’s Left Of Me,” “Incomplete,” “Cinderella,” “Just To Feel That Way”
Brian Robillard
Senior Manager, Online Marketing – Universal Music Group/Netreach
Irwin Z. Robinson
Chairman – Paramount Allegra Music
Pete Rock
Producer – “They Reminisce Over You,” “Dead Presidents,” “Down With The King”
Laura Roeder
Principal – roederstudios.com
Steven Rosen
Owner, President – Rosen Music Corp.
John Rubeli
President – Chop Shop Records
Peter Rutenberg
President – RCM Records
Conductor, Music Director – Los Angeles Chamber Singers & Cappella
Tom Salta
Composer – Games: Tom Clancy’s: HAWX, Tom Clancy’s: GRAW 1 & 2, Red Steel, Need For Speed Underground 2
Chris Saranec
Executive Director, Music Licensing – NBC Universal Studios
Vocalist
Steven Scharf
President – Steven Scharf Entertainment/Carlin America
Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D – CA)
California’s 29th Congressional District
Steve Seskin
Songwriter – “Don’t Laugh At Me,” “Grown Men Don’t Cry,” “Life’s A Dance,” “I Think About You”
Alex Shapiro
Composer – Slipping, Bioplasm, Music for Two Big Instruments, At the Abyss
Marty Silverstone
VP, Creative Services – North Star Media
Danny Socolof
Founder – MEGA
Ricky Skaggs
Songwriter, Performer, Producer – “Crying My Heart Out Over You,” “Heartbroke,” “Honey (Open That Door),” “Highway 40 Blues”
Skillz
Rapper, Songwriter – “Confessions of a Ghostwriter, ” “Year-End Wrap-Up,” I Ain’t Mad No More
Greg Sowders
SVP and Head of A&R, U.S. – Warner/Chappell Music
Lou Spisto
CEO/Executive Producer – The Old Globe Theatre
Billy Steinberg
Songwriter – “Like A Virgin,” “True Colors,” “Eternal Flame,” “I’ll Stand By You”
Jeremy “Jerm the Beat” Reeves & Jon “Jon Street” Yip (The Stereotypes)
Producers, Songwriters – “Damages,” “Why Does She Stay,” “Good Love”
Christopher “Tricky” Stewart
Producer, Songwriter – “Umbrella,” “Touch My Body,” “Just Fine,” “Me Against The Music”
Mark Stewart
Artist Manager – Christopher “Tricky” Stewart, The-Dream; President – RedZone Entertainment
Dave Stone
VP, Music – Bunim-Murray Productions
Tom Sturges
Executive Vice President, Head of Creative – Universal Music Publishing
Scott Szabo
Owner – Szabo Sound & Music
Adam Taylor
President – APM Music
Ryan Tedder
Songwriter, Performer – “Apologize,” “Bleeding Love,” “Stop and Stare”
Jack Tempchin
Songwriter – “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” ” Already Gone, ” ” You Belong To The City,” “Slow Dancing (Swayin To The Music)”
Allan Tepper
President – Tepper Music Management
Diana Turk
Director, Film & TV Music – Primary Wave Music Publishing
Jim Vellutato
Sr. Director, Creative Affairs – Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Randy Wachtler
President, CEO – 615 Music
Narada Michael Walden
Producer, Songwriter – “I Don’t Wanna Cry,” “So Emotional,” “Freeway of Love,” The Bodyguard
Wendy Waldman
Songwriter, Performer – “Save The Best For Last,” “Fishin’ In The Dark,” “The Sweetest Days,” “I Owe You One”
Jonathan Weiss
Music Supervisor, Music Publisher – Haiku Entertainment/Jonjaz Music
Katie Welle
Manager, A&R – Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Brian West
Songwriter, Producer, Performer – Whoa, Nelly, Folklore
Paul Williams
Songwriter, Actor – “Evergreen,” “Rainy Days and Mondays,” “We’ve Only Just Begun”
Dan Wilson
Performer, Songwriter – “Secret Smile,” “Closing Time,” “Not Ready to Make Nice”
Craig Wiseman
Founder – Big Loud Shirt Industries
Songwriter – “Live Like You Were Dying,” “Believe,” “Summertime,” “A Baby Changes Everything”
Doug Wood
President/Owner – Omni Music
Composer – The Omni Music Library
Donna Young
Founder, Owner – Donna Young Music
Adam Zelkind
Composer – TV: I Love Money, Rock Of Love, Flavor Of Love, Charm School
Michael Zildjian
Owner – Zilito Music Group
David Zippel
Lyricist – Broadway: City of Angels, The Woman in White Film: Hercules, Mula
Jennifer Blakeman
SVP, Creative – Universal Music Publishing
Songwriter, Musician
Antony Bland
Director, A&R – American Recordings
Stephen Bray
Songwriter – “Express Yourself,” “Into the Groove” Broadway: The Color Purple
Sabelle Breer
Songwriter, Producer – “On The Way Down,” “(There’s Gotta Be) More To Life,” “Tomorrow,”"Sola En El Silenco”
Alan Brewer
Owner, Producer, Composer – BME/Brewman Music & Entertainment
Martin Briley
Songwriter, Artist, Musician – “Salt in My Tears”
Russell Brower
Director of Audio/Video, Lead Composer – Blizzard Entertainment
Composer – Games: World of Warcraft, StarCraft II,
Diablo III
Ken Bunt
SVP, Marketing – Hollywood Records
Jon Burlingame
Journalist – Daily Variety
Sean Callery
Composer – TV: 24, Bones, Medium, La Femme Nikita
Warryn Campbell
Producer, Songwriter – “Shackles (Praise You),” “Let Go, Let God,” “Heaven”
Donna Caseine
SVP, Creative Services/West Coast Director, A&R – Universal Music Publishing Group
Christian Castle, Esq.
Managing Partner, Attorney – Christian L. Castle Attorneys
Paul Chihara
Chair of Visual Media – UCLA
Composer – Film: Prince of the City, The Morning After, Crossing Delancey TV: China Beach
Desmond Child
Songwriter, Producer – “Dude (Looks Like a Lady),” “Invisible,” “Livin’ La Vida Loca”
Barry Coburn
Co-President – Ten Ten Music Group, Inc.
Jewel Coburn
Co-President – Ten Ten Music Group, Inc.
Melvin “St. Nick” Coleman
Producer, Songwriter
Jay Cooper
Attorney – Greenberg Traurig
Michael Corcoran
Marketing Director – musicSUBMIT.com
Ralph Covert
Songwriter, Composer, Singer, Producer – “Not Dead Yet,” “Just Like The Monkeys,” ” With A Friend (The Pooh Song),” “Promises In The Dark”
Eric Craig
Director, A&R and Music Supervision – Lakeshore Entertainment
Shondrae “Bangladesh” Crawford
Producer – “A Milli,” “Diva”
Wofford Denius, Esq.
Attorney – Law Office of Wofford Denius
Tom DeSavia
VP, Creative – Notable Music
Dan Diamond
VP – NCM Fathom (A division of National CineMedia)
Ann Donahue
Senior Editor – Billboard
Chris Douridas
DJ, Host – KCRW’s New Ground; Music Supervisor
Drumma Boy
Producer- “Here I Am,” “Put On,” Paper Trail
Charity Duplechan
Creative Manager – Rondor Music Publishing
Josh East
Sr. Project Manager – MusiK1.net; Editor – OpenMusicWire.com
Mike Elizondo
Producer, Songwriter – “In Da Club,” “How We Do,” “Rich Girl,” “Wunderkind”
Roy Elkins
Founder & CEO – Broadjam, Inc.
Damon Elliott
Producer, Songwriter, Musician – Kelis Was Here Film: Scooby-Doo, Fame (2009)
“Spider” Ron Entwistle
Producer, Songwriter, Remixer
Mikkel Eriksen(Stargate)
Producer, Songwriter – “Irreplaceable,” “Don’t Stop The Music,” “Miss Independent,” “Beautiful Liar”
Ron Fair
Chairman – Geffen Records
Chris Farren
President – Combustion Music Group
Songwriter, Producer
Stacy Fass
Attorney
Patrick Faucher
CEO – Nimbit, Inc.
James Fauntleroy
Songwriter – “No Air,” “Take You Down”
Roger Faxon
Chairman and CEO – EMI Music Publishing
Rory Feek (Joey+Rory)
Songwriter, Performer, Producer, Publisher – “Cheater Cheater,” “Some Beach,” “The Chain Of Love”
Jason Feinberg
President/Founder – On Target Media Group
Gary Fine, Esq.
Attorney – Kleinberg, Lopez, Lange, Cuddy & Kline
Cheryl Foliart
Music Production Specialist for Media
Alex Forbes
Songwriter – “Melt Away,” “Don’t Rush Me,” “Nothin’ My Love Can’t Fix,” “Too Turned On”
Jay Frank
SVP, Music Strategy – CMT
Jeff Franzel
Songwriter, Composer – “La tua semplicita,” “When You Know,” “Never Saw Blue Like That,” “Don’t Rush Me”
Curt Frasca
CEO, Co-Founder – Verse Music Publishing
Songwriter, Producer – Let Go, “On the Way Down”
Michael Frick
Executive Producer/Founder – Mophonics
Mitchell Froom
Producer, Songwriter – “La Bamba,” “99.9F,” “Tomorrow Never Dies”
Siedah Garrett
Singer, Songwriter – “Love You I Do,” “Man In The Mirror”
Steven Gaydos
Executive Editor, Features – Variety
Reid Genauer
VP, Marketing – eMusic
Songwriter, Performer
Jody Gerson
Co-President – Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Gilles Godard
Chief Creative Officer – ole
Songwriter – “When Mama Ain’t Happy,” “That’s the Kind of Mood I’m In,” I Wanna Do It All”
Rich Goldman
President – RipTide Music
Richard Gottehrer
Founder and Chief Creative Officer – The Orchard
Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald
Songwriter, Producer – “I Kissed A Girl,” “Since U Been Gone,” “Feels Like Tonight,” “My Life Would Suck Without You”
Kat Green
Music Supervisor, Partner – Bad Ass Music
Co-Owner – Hella Good Records
Holly Greene
Music Publisher and Consultant – Counter Content
Alex Greenwald
Songwriter, Performer, Actor – “California,” “Do The Panic,” Phantom Planet
Benjamin Groff
SVP, Creative, West Coast – Kobalt Music Group
Gary Gross
Worldwide President – Universal Publishing Production Music
Alex Hackford
A&R – Sony Computer Entertainment America/Playstation
Gavin Haverstick
Lead Acoustical Engineer – Auralex Acoustics
Jason Hayes
Composer – Games: StarCraft, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft
Tor Hermansen (Stargate)
Producer, Songwriter – “Irreplaceable,” “Don’t Stop The Music,” “Miss Independent,” “Beautiful Liar”
Peter Himmelman
Songwriter, Composer, Performer – From Strength to Strength Web Show: Furious World TV: Judging Amy, Bones
Daniel Ho
Songwriter, Producer, Performer
Sam Hollander (S*A*M)
Producer, Songwriter – “Cupid’s Chokehold,” “Bring It (Snakes on a Plane),” “The Great Escape”
Wayland Holyfield
Songwriter – “Could I Have This Dance,” “You’re My Best Friend”
Jesca Hoop
Songwriter, Singer – “Seed of Wonder,” “Intelligentactile 101,” Kismet
Jamie Houston
Songwriter, Producer – “Just Feel Better,” “Beautiful Disaster,” “Breaking Free,” “You Are The Music In Me”
James Newton Howard
Composer – Film: The Dark Knight, The Fugitive, Michael Clayton, Defiance
Michael Howe
VP, A&R and Licensing – Downtown Records
Carlos Hudgins
Director, Creative Urban – EMI Music Publishing
Rob Hyman
Songwriter, Producer, Performer – “Time After Time,” “And We Danced,” “Private Emotion,” “Closer To Me”
Mike Jackson
Senior Director, Creative Urban, Atlanta Region – EMI Music Publishing
Raj Jadeja
Manager, A&R – Atlantic Records
Nikki Jean
Songwriter, Performer
Wyclef Jean
Songwriter, Producer, Performer – “Gone Till November,” “Hips Don’t Lie,” The Score, The Carnival
Cri$tyle “The Ink” Johnson
Songwriter – “Touch My Body,” “Angel”
David H. Johnson
Chairman and CEO – Warner Music Group
Ron Jones
Composer – TV: Family Guy, American Dad, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Duck Tales
Kenny Bartolomei, Kevin Crowe & Erik Ortiz (J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)
Producers – “No One Will Do,” “Bury Me a G,” “She Got It,” “Magnificent”
Henry Kapono Ka’aihue
Singer, Songwriter
Kevin Kadish
Songwriter, Producer – “Geek in the Pink,” “(There’s Gotta Be) More to Life,” “Wordplay,” “Stuck”
Dean Kay
President, CEO – Lichelle Music Company
Songwriter – “That’s Life”
James M. Kendrick Esq.
President – Schott Music Corporation/European American Music Corporation
Hollywood CA — Jon Hammond reporting from 7th annual “I Create Music Expo” aka We Create Music Expo
7th Annual ASCAP I Create Music Expo, 6th consecutive year for Jon Hammond welcomes Tommy Denander from Sweden to his third ASCAP Expo
aka We Create Music Expo
Jon Hammond here with Dan DeSouza and Bobbi Sacks Marcus DeSouza at Hollywood Renaissance Hotel for 2012 ASCAP I Create Music Expo
The Premier Conference for Songwriters, Composers and Producers – open to all, not just ASCAP members.
The ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO puts you face-to-face with some of the world’s most successful songwriters, composers, producers and music business leaders, all who willingly share their knowledge and expertise and give you the know-how to take your music to the next level.
Writers Jam Hillary Lindsey, Jonny Lang, Lindy Robbins, Priscilla Renea
Priscilla Renea really dazzled the capacity audience in the Grand Ballroom – photo by Jon Hammond
Jon Hammond at the Sk1 organ with great players Greg Osby alto, Juan Alzate tenor, Willie Bradley trumpet, Jason Palmer trumpet, Tim Green alto, Alejandro Chiabrando tenor and more – special thanks Alex Mingmann Hsieh, Yao Shake, Agnieszka Obrebska and all Team P.Mauriat, Jim Wischmeyer Bag End Powered Speakers – see you next year at NAMM 2014, go for the sound! Jon Hammond http://archive.org/details/JonHammondPMauriatNAMMJamSundayBluesSession/ <
Blip TV http://blip.tv/jon-hammond/pmauriat-namm-jam-sunday-blues-session-6521463 
P.Mauriat, Go For The Sound, Sunday Blues Session, Saxophones, Trumpets, Organ, NAMM Jam, Anaheim *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: The Sound The Soul The Summit Ultimate Hammond All-Star Jam Jon Hammond and Dr. Lonnie Smith at Winter NAMM 2013 
new slogan “The Sound, The Soul, The One” and a “neo-retro” look – forego the imposters and say “Make Mine Hammond” http://archive.org/details/JonHammondTheSoundTheSoulTheSummitUltimateHammondAll-StarJam/ Kicking it off in the Hilton Anaheim Lobby at Winter NAMM 2013 on the first ever Hammond Organ night – Introduced by Master of Ceremonies Scott May: Dr. Lonnie Smith, Chester Thompson, Larry Goldings with Jay Dittamo drums, Jack Maher guitar – mix by Denny Mack. Jon Hammond Band playing “Late Rent” theme song of The Jon Hammond Show TV program. On Jon’s band: Donny Baldwin drums (from Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, Jefferson Starship), Alex Budman tenor saxophone, Joe Berger guitar and Jon Hammond at the New B3 Portable Organ. http://www.HammondCast.com Special thanks Hammond Suzuki USA, Peter Nguyen, NAMM and Hilton Hotel Anaheim Peter Nguyen and Jon Hammond 
Blip TV http://blip.tv/jon-hammond/the-sound-the-soul-the-summit-ultimate-hammond-all-star-jam-6520933 
Denny Mack and Scott May – photo: Jon Hammond 
Chester Thompson flanked by Jon Hammond and Scott May 
Power Shot L to R: Masato Tomie, Jon Hammond, Scott May, Yu Beniya, Masuo Terada 
Power Shot L to R: Jon Hammond, Masuo Terada, Shuji Suzuki 
Drummer Jay Dittamo speaking with Dr. Lonnie Smith on the bandstand, while Leo Stillo checks messages by the console 
Chester Thompson, Doc Lonnie, Jay Dittamo in action – Jon Hammond 
Jim Wischmeyer Bag End Speakers and Jon Hammond >
*WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: NAMM Jam at P.Mauriat Stand with Jon Hammond at the organ and horns Spontaneous NAMM Jam Session at P.Mauriat Saxophones and Trumpets stand with some great players – Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond organ with many great players including Hoai Phuong Nguyen, Alejandro Chiabrando, Juan Alzate, Keyan Williams, Tim Green, Willie Bradley, Jason Palmer, Eddie Baccus Jr., Adam MacBlane – sorry if I missed anybody folks! JH – Special thanks to Alex Mingmann Hsieh, Agnieszka Obrebska – P.Mauriat, Jim Wischmeyer Bag End Speakers http://bagend.com Hammond Suzuki USA and the very kind NAMM Sound Police – see you next year 2014 NAMM and Frankfurt Musikmesse – JH http://www.HammondCast.com P.Mauriat http://www.pmauriatmusic.com http://archive.org/details/JonHammondNAMMJamatP.MauriatStandwithJonHammondattheorganandhorns 
Yao Shake (謝瑤) and Jon Hammond 
Hoai Phuong Nguyen (Hoai Phuong)and Jon Hammond 
Youtube http://youtu.be/0C9HEsN5JGc Saxsbigfan 14 hours ago wow… so excellent performance !! Go! Go! Go! Go for the sound! Reply · Tsai Susan 14 hours ago It was so exciting to see your play at the NAMM with P Mauriat artists. The live performance was thrilled and joyful. Thank you, Jon. Without you, the NAMM would be less fun! Reply · A MH 14 hours ago Definitely, Jon deserves to have a big hugs and applauses…,whatsoever.. Jon’s LIVE performance at PM’s booth before ending NAMM ,which has been sparked a great highlights and memories to everybody, although ,it’s only a whirlwind of 30 minutes jam sessions, but that’s one of our historic treasure ,also to NAMM. We feel proudly to say “thanks you, Jon! those music makes people crazy and joyful time until the last minutes at NAMM, Jan. 27.2013 Go for the sound!! see you in 2014
