Jon Hammond Music Played by Big Band Meetinghouse Jazz Orchestra

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48 minute Documentary movie of Tuesday night session at Friends Seminary School in Manhattan, 5 original compositions!
Photos courtesy of Elmar Lemes

“Head Phone” by Jon Hammond arranged by Todd Anderson
“Lydia’s Tune” by Jon Hammond arranged by Todd Anderson
“Late Rent” by Jon Hammond arranged by Todd Anderson
“Pocket Funk” by Jon Hammond arranged by Todd Anderson
“Have a Nice Day Blues” by Todd Anderson arranged by Todd Anderson
*Note: Tenor Saxophonist Arranger Todd Anderson was Jon Hammond’s teacher for Arranging and Compostion at Berklee College of Music in Boston MA in 1973. 10 years later they recorded this music for TV Show “The Jon Hammond Show” still on TV every week for 32 years, the recording session went down at Intergalactic Recording Studios where John Lennon did some of his last recording dates. The big band here is presided over by Professor Bob Rosen in charge of the music program at Friends Seminary School on Manhattan’s East Side, 230 year old school K – 12th grade. Top sight reading musicians gather weekly – more info: http://www.HammondCast.com ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP / BMI

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Topics Big Band, Jazz Orchestra, Meetinghouse, Todd Anderson, Bob Rosen, Jon Hammond, Hammond Organ, B3, Sk1, Funky Jazz, Sight Readers, AFM Musicians Union, Greater New York, Local 802, ASCAP Composer
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Penzlin, Germany — Showtime! – Penzlin Burginnenhof Landesjugendjazzorchester MV Jon Hammond Jazzorgel – High Definition Movie: https://archive.org/details/PenzlinBurginnenhofLandesjugendjazzorchesterMVJonHammondJazzorgel1
(Full HD, vers. 2.0) Penzlin Burginnenhof Landesjugendjazzorchester MV Jon Hammond Jazzorgel “Organ Meets Bigband” special tribute to Jimmy Smith evening concert in the centuries old castle Penzlin Burginnenhof, conducted by Maestro Michael Leuschner. Full moon was rising on this evening in Alte Burg Penzlin
„Organ meets Bigband“ – LaJazzO MV feat. Jon Hammond (organ) – das Landesjugendjazzorchester Mecklenburg / Landesjugendorchester Mecklenburg Vorpommern (LaJazzO MV) Penzlin, Burginnenhof
Warener Chaussee 55a
17217 Penzlin – Junge Talente treffen Profi: Das Landesjugendjazzorchester als bester Jazznachwuchs aus ganz Mecklenburg-Vorpommern tritt bei diesem Konzert mit dem US-Amerikaner Jon Hammond, einem der legendärsten Hammondorgelspieler der Welt, auf. Eindrucksvolle Kulisse ist die aus dem 16. Jahrhundert stammende Burg in Penzlin, in der unter freiem Himmel vielseitiger Bigbandjazz dargeboten wird. Der Trompeter und Bigband-Leader Michael Leuschner führt unterhaltsam durch das Programm, das Klassiker wie vom phänomenalen Jimmy Smith parat hat. – diesmal mit dem New Yorker Jazzorganisten Jon Hammond.

Das Jugendensemble steht synonym für den besten Jazznachwuchs aus ganz Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Als Projekt des Landesmusikrates M-V e. V. gibt es – gefördert vom NDR und dem Bildungsministerium M-V – den talentiertesten jungen Jazzern unseres Landes eine hervorragende Plattform für gemeinsames Musizieren. Musiker im Alter von 14-26 Jahren haben hier die Möglichkeit, unter professioneller Anleitung das musikalische Zusammenspiel in einem Jazzorchester und die Grundlagen der Improvisation zu erlernen. Vielen, heute erfolgreichen Musikern diente das Orchester bislang als Sprungbrett. Unter der Leitung des Trompeters und Jazzdozenten Michael Leuschner ist das LaJazzO zu einem beeindruckenden Klangkörper, einem musikalischen Aushängeschild für Mecklenburg-Vorpommern herangereift und spielt regelmäßig im Programm der Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / M-V.
Nachdem sich in den vergangenen Jahren das LaJazzO MV mit den in der Big Band vorkommenden Instrumenten musikalisch auseinandersetzte, wird in 2015 die Jazzorgel musikalisch thematisiert werden. Unter dem Titel „Organ meets Big Band“ wird dieses sehr traditionsreiche Instrument der Jazzgeschichte in den Mittelpunkt der Konzertreihe im folgenden Jahr gestellt. Als Jazzinstrument wurde es von Fats Waller in den 30er Jahren eingeführt und hatte seine Hochzeit in den 50er Jahren durch seine Vertreter wie Jimmy Smith. Der international renommierte New Yorker Jazzorganist Jon Hammond wird zusammen mit dem LaJazzO MV unter der Leitung von Michael Leuschner den besonderen Charme dieses Instrumentes wieder zum Leben erwecken. Im Programm sind unter anderem Titel von Jimmy Smith, arrangiert von Steve Gray – eine Leihgabe aus dem Archiv der NDR Bigband.
Jon Hammond studierte in den siebziger Jahren am Berklee College of Music und am City College San Francisco. Konzertreisen führten ihn quer durch die Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada. In seiner eigenen ‚Jon Hammond Show‘ spielte er mit Musikern wie Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Butterfield, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Sledge und vielen anderen. Auch in Europa fand und findet seine Musik unverändert viele Anhänger. Die Medien berichten wiederholt von einem unverwechselbaren und prägenden Sound. Jon Hammond hat u.a. auf der 20. Frankfurter musikmesse mitgewirkt und tritt vornehmlich in Hamburg auf. „The Jon Hammond Show“ is a funky, swinging Jazz instrumental revue, featuring notable international soloists and reflecting the influences of Miles Davis, The Crusaders and Jimmy Smith.
Leitung: Michael Leuschner
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Jon’s archive https://archive.org/details/LYDIASTUNEMeetinghouseJazzOrchestraPodcast

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Published October 22, 2015
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Topics Lydia’s Tune, Meetinghouse Jazz Orchestra, Todd Anderson Arrangement, Hammond Organist, Jon Hammond, Friends Seminary, 230 year old school, Manhattan, Paris France, Jon Hammond, #HammondOrgan

Jon’s archive https://archive.org/details/TinosHammondOrgan80thAnniversaryFilmDocumentaryTrailer

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Tino’s Hammond Organ 80th Anniversary Film Documentary Trailer with cameo appearances Michael Falkenstein, Joe Berger, Jon Hammond, Shuji Suzuki and Suzuki Musical Instuments Hammond Organ Team, Bernie Capicchiano Bernies Music Land Australia Hammond Distributor, Jon Hammond’s annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in world famous historic jazzkeller Frankfurt

– Outro music “Organ Meets Bigband” Jon Hammond with Landesjugendjazzorchester LaJazzO MV orchestra – Director/Producer: Tino Pavlis, co-producer Joe Berger http://www.HammondCast.com

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#‎TheNAMMShow‬ “White Onions” Jon Hammond Funk Unit NAMM Showcase lunch set https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2015/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit
23rd January reprising 1989 Late Rent Sessions recording ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP

Jon Hammond Funk Unit Photo Credit: Lawrence Gay co-producer of West Coast Live Radio Program

with special guest Bernard Purdie drums, Leslie J. Carter percussion Jon Hammond organ (original members on record) featuring Koei Tanaka chromatic harmonica from Tokyo Japan Suzuki world star, Joe Berger guitar JJ guitars, Alex Budman tenor saxophone Dom Famularo returning to the NAMM Stage – special thanks NAMM President CEO Joe Lamond, KHS Hercules folding stands

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Jon’s archive https://archive.org/details/HammondPartyNightPocketFunkShakingOutTheNewXK5OrganInNashville

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Jon Hammond Band at the Hammond Party for the new XK-5 Hammond organ, playing Jon’s tune Pocket Funk in Full HighDef on the new prototype organ with Kayleigh Moyer on the Sleishman Drum Co Mothertone drums, Chuggy Carter congas GON BOPS, Joe Berger guitar, Jon Hammond at the XK5 (plays just like a B3 with Multi Contact keys!)

first night of Summer NAMM Show Nashville, Tennessee at the famous studios of SoundCheck Nashville- Pocket Funk as seen on Jon’s TV show Jon Hammond Show 34 years on Manhattan Neighborhood Network channel 1 – special thanks to Hammond Organ USA Gregory Gronowski & Scott May, Ray Gerlich long-time Hammond Technical Supervisor since 1976! also Mark Prentice M.D. for the evening, known as “Sound Soul Summit V” fine players all night long on the new org – Thanks to my friend Chuck Rainey the great studio bassist for coming and hanging with us all night long! And the Suzuki Musical Instruments Team makers of Hammond Organs and Leslie Speakers *from Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka, Japan http://www.HammondCast.com ‪#‎XK5‬ ‪#‎NAMMShow‬ ‪#‎Nashville‬ ‪#‎SummerNAMM‬ ‪#‎HammondOrgan‬

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Jon Hammond Show Cable Access Preview 08 29 Zeughaus Wismar MCTV 1 Air Time 1 30 AM

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by Jon Hammond

Published August 23, 2015
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Topics MCTV, Cable Access TV Show, MNN Channel 1, Preview, 08/29, Jon Hammond, #JoeFranklin #HammondOrgan #MecklenburgVorpommern #Bigband

Jon Hammond Show Cable Access Preview 08/29 Zeughaus Wismar MCTV 1 air time 1:30 AM with recent performance in Mecklenburg Vorpommern with LaJazzO MV in Zeughaus Wismar, ‘Band within a Bigband’ musical history, the classic MCTV 1, 32nd year on New York Manhattan Cable TV stations, now MNN Channel 1 very special show which got written up in Billboard Magazine by Kim Freeman #Billboard #CableAccess #HammondOrgan #MecklenburgVorpommern http://www.HammondCast.com same original time slot folks – outro by the late great Joe Franklin R.I.P. – *Note every frame of this show is embedded with i.d. information and copyrighted ©JON HAMMOND International

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Published August 13, 2015
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Topics Jon Hammond, Head Phone, Sennheiser, Joe Berger, NAMM Show, Bernard Purdie, Fatback Drum, Koei Tanaka, 80th Anniversary Hammond Organs, #HammondOrgan #KoeiTanaka

Jon Hammond “Head Phone” Funk original composition by Jon Hammond in the Anaheim Hilton Lobby – Hammond Organ 80th Anniversary Film – with Bernard Purdie​ Fatback Drum, Joe Berger​ guitar, Koei Tanaka​ harmonica, Alex Budman​ tenor sax, Jon Hammond​ at New B3mk2 including photo collage from Jon’s archive with Bernard going back through the decades – side camera special thanks Tino Pavlis​ and Joachim Wiesel, some photos by Lawrence Gay as seen on The Jon Hammond Show 32 years every Friday night in Manhattan MNN TV Channel 1 at 1:30AM (Sat. early) all images and music copyright property ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP http://www.HammondCast.com – TV Producers of Manhattan Neighborhood Network [MNN]​ – Manhattan Neighborhood Network​ – Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM​ AFM Musicians Union Local 6​ – The NAMM Show​ JJ Guitars​ Koei Tanaka / 田中光栄 – fan site​ Suzuki Musical Instruments​

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Jon’s archive https://archive.org/details/OrganMeetsBigbandFeat.JonHammondInAlteBurgPenzlin

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by Jon Hammond

Published August 1, 2015
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Topics LaJazzO MV, #HammondOrgan #Bigband Jon Hammond #NDR NDR Jazz, Hamburg, Rostock, B3 organ, Sk1, Steve Grey, Arrangements

YouTube! https://youtu.be/4n1WEq-l-Cs

Der international renommierte New Yorker Jazzorganist Jon Hammond wird
zusammen mit dem LaJazzO MV unter der Leitung von Michael Leuschner den
besonderen Charme dieses Instrumentes wieder zum Leben erwecken. Im
Programm sind unter anderem Titel von Jimmy Smith, arrangiert von Steve
Grey – eine Leihgabe aus dem Archiv der NDR-Bigband.
das
Landesjugendjazzorchester Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (LaJazzO MV) mit seinem
diesjährigen Solisten Jon Hammond – AFM Local 6 Member Associated
Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM http://www.HammondCast.com

We just played an amazing concert with for sure the Best Band in The
Land! In 13th Century Castle under the full moon rising, it was totally
magical – the musicians played so great under the direction of Michael
Leuschner, the pride of The North – Das LaJazzO / Das
Landesjugendjazzorchester M-V, this is the Future of Music Folks! In the
tradition of the legendary jazz big bands of Duke Ellington, Count
Basie, NDR Bigband – we played the arrangements of the late great
Britische Komponist und Arrangeur Steve Gray written for Jimmy Smith’s
last concert with NDR, this band did everybody proud! Dankeschön,
tonight we play in Rostock! Be there or be square…and “Don’t Forget
Your Hat!” – Jon Hammond
https://www.facebook.com/events/846845685410695/
“Organ meets Bigband” feat. Jon Hammond:
Today at 8:30pm
Starts in about 11 hours · 59°F Mostly Cloudy

Am 01.08.2015 ist das Landesjugendjazzorchester Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
(LaJazzO MV) mit seinem diesjährigen Solisten Jon Hammond wieder im
Klostergarten Rostock zu Gast.
Nachdem sich in den vergangenen
Jahren das LaJazzO MV mit den in der Big Band vorkommenden Instrumenten
musikalisch auseinandersetzte, wird in 2015 die Jazzorgel musikalisch
thematisiert werden. Unter dem Titel “Organ meets Big Band” wird dieses
sehr traditionsreiche Instrument der Jazzgeschichte in den Mittelpunkt
der Konzertreihe im folgenden Jahr gestellt. Als Jazzinstrument wurde es
von Fats Waller in den 30er Jahren eingeführt und hatte seine Hochzeit
in den 50er Jahren durch seine Vertreter wie Jimmy Smith. Der
international renommierte New Yorker Jazzorganist Jon Hammond wird
zusammen mit dem LaJazzO MV unter der Leitung von Michael Leuschner den
besonderen Charme dieses Instrumentes wieder zum Leben erwecken. Im
Programm sind unter anderem Titel von Jimmy Smith, arrangiert von Steve
Grey – eine Leihgabe aus dem Archiv der NDR-Bigband.
Jon Hammond
studierte in den siebziger Jahren am Berklee College of Music und am
City College San Francisco. Konzertreisen führten ihn quer durch die
Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada. In seiner eigenen ‘Jon Hammond Show’
spielte er mit Musikern wie Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Butterfield, Jaco
Pastorius, John Entwistle, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Sledge und vielen
anderen. Auch in Europa fand und findet seine Musik unverändert viele
Anhänger. Die Medien berichten wiederholt von einem unverwechselbaren
und prägenden Sound. Jon Hammond
hat u.a. auf der 20. Frankfurter Musikmesse mitgewirkt und tritt
vornehmlich in Hamburg auf. “The Jon Hammond Show” is a funky, swinging
Jazz instrumental revue, featuring notable international soloists and
reflecting the influences of Miles Davis, The Crusaders and Jimmy Smith –
Verve Records.
Programm: “Organ meets Bigband”
Leitung: Michael Leuschner

Cable Access TV Show, MCTV, Jon Hammond, MNN Channel 1, Late Rent, #LaJazzOMV #HammondOrgan #Wismar #NDRJazz #MecklenburgVorpommern

Mikell’s NYC Film From Jon Hammond July 28, 1989

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Published August 21, 2015
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Topics Mikell’s Jazz Club, Studio Musicians, Bernard Purdie, Barry Finnerty, Alex Foster, Jon Hammond, Late Rent, Cable TV Show, #HammondOrgan Local 802, AFM Local 6

July 28, 1989 a little over 26 years since Jon Hammond and The Late Rent Session Men played this gig at good old Mikell’s (Pat Mikell) at 760 Columbus Avenue – Bernard Purdie’s kids Phyllis and Anthony came to the gig after they heard the gig advertised on WRVR – I broke out my 1959 Hammond B3 organ and Barry Finnerty still had his 1959 Les Paul guitar then, Alex Foster tenor and Leslie J. Carter / Chuggy Carter percussion – I just found some more filmage of the gig actually, Jon Hammond – thanks to Joe Berger for operating my Panasonic camera http://www.HammondCast.com – Jon Hammond – Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM / AFM Local 6

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Jon’s archive https://archive.org/details/RosesForTIniFranziLaJazzOMVWalkOnWildSide

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Published August 11, 2015
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Topics Roses, Tini, Franzi, Landesjugendorchester, Rostock, Klostergarten, Organ Meets Bigband, Jazz, Orchestra, Saxophones, Trumpets, Trombones, Tuba, #HammondOrgan #WildSide #MichaelLeuschner

(FULL HIGH DEFINITION VERSION) Film Rostock Germany — “Roses for Tini & Franzi LaJazzO MV Walk on The Wild Side” – Very special finale concert film from the program “Organ Meets Bigband” in the famous Klostergarten. Fantastic young jazz orchestra
Landesjugendjazzorchester Mecklenburg Vorpommern led by Michael Leuschner, presents the musicians and roses in appreciation to the very special ladies behind the scenes Team Projektleitung: Christine Tini Unger & Franziska Maczkowicz aka Tini and Franzi – Jon Hammond as guest artist reprising Walk On The WIld Side, the last recorded concert of Jimmy Smith with The NDR Big Band fantastic arrangement by the late great Steve Gray rehearsed and played meticulously by these fine young musicians under the leadership of NDR Trumpeter Michael Leuschner – enjoy the film and music folks! Sincerely, Jon Hammond http://www.HammondCast.com

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CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1263544

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by Jon Hammond

Published June 5, 2015
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Topics Video by Lori, Late Rent (Music), Jon Hammond Show, MNN TV, #HammondOrgan ASCAP Composer, Musicians Union, Local 802, Local 6, Public Access TV, 32nd year

Jon Hammond Show Preview 06/13 MNN TV Ch 1 – Original Music, Travel and Soft News – beginning with Jon Hammond classic theme song Late Rent with video by Lori *Note: Every frame is heavily embedded with i.d. information and copyright protected ©JON HAMMOND International – next Bernard Purdie plays Jon Hammond’s original Pocket Funk with Jon Hammond Band with Koei Tanaka harmonica, Joe Berger guitar, Alex Budman tenor, Bernard Purdie drums, Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond organ onstage at NAMM Anaheim CA. Next Hoodman and then Scott Cooper flies in vintage NAB movie production. Next Jon Hammond’s composition Lydia’s Tune played in Hamburg Germany with the NDR Horns – Michael Leuschner trumpet, Fiete Felsch alto, Lutz Büchner tenor, Heinz Lichius drums, Joe Berger guitar, Jon Hammond organ and covering bass. Outtake to Jon’s theme song Late Rent with images of Jon Hammond Show moments, now in 32nd year on New York Cable every Friday night late (Sat. morning) 1:30AM on MNN TV Channel 1 http://www.HammondCast.com

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laterent

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Published June 18, 2015
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Topics Al Jazzbeaux Collins, Documentary, Jon Hammond, Movie, Jazz 91, Mississippi Mud, Jazzbo Collins, WNEW 1130 AM, Jazz Radio, #HammondOrgan

The late great radio and TV broadcaster personality Al Jazzbeaux Collins in the studios of KCSM Jazz 91 with organist Jon Hammond – aka Al Jazzbo Collins, one of the greatest and most definitely coolest broadcasters who ever lived. *Note: I dearly miss Jazzbeaux, he was a huge inspiration to me personally. He broke out my music on the air back in New York on WNEW 1130AM huge powerful door he opened for me, we had a lot of fun together on both coasts – he introduced me to folks like Lionel Hampton, David Panama Francis, Lew Anderson band leader and Clarabell the Clown from It’s Howdy Doody Time! TV Show, Joe Bushkin pianist, and his Family the Collins Family – he knew every door man garbage man and taxi drivers on the street – rest in peace Albert! sincerely, Jon Hammond *including a clip from Live performance in Horizons Sausalito with funky James Preston drums on Jon Hammond Band https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_%22Jazzbo%22_Collins Albert Richard “Jazzbo” Collins (born January 4, 1919, Rochester, New York[1] — d. September 30, 1997, Marin County, California) was an American disc jockey, radio personality and recording artist who was briefly the host of NBC television’s Tonight show in 1957.

The name “Jazzbo” derived from a product Collins had seen, a clip-on bowtie named Jazzbows. Just as Martin Block created the illusion that he was speaking from the Make Believe Ballroom, Collins claimed to be broadcasting from his inner sanctum, a place known as the Purple Grotto, an imaginary setting suggested by radio station WNEW’s interior design, as Collins explained:

I started my broadcast in Studio One which was painted all kinds of tints and shades of purple on huge polycylindricals which were vertically placed around the walls of the room to deflect the sound. It just happened to be that way. And with the turntables and desk and console and the lights turned down low, it had a very cavelike appearance to my imagination. So I got on the air, and the first thing I said was, “Hi, it’s Jazzbo in the Purple Grotto.” You never know where your thoughts are coming from, but the way it came out was that I was in a grotto, in this atmosphere with stalagtites and a lake and no telephones. I was using Nat Cole underneath me with “Easy Listening Blues” playing piano in the background.
Collins grew up on Long Island, New York. In 1941, while attending the University of Miami in Florida, he substituted as the announcer on his English teacher’s campus radio program, and decided he wanted to be in radio. He began his professional career as the disc jockey at a bluegrass station in Logan, West Virginia. By 1943, Collins was broadcasting at WKPA in Pittsburgh, moving in 1945 to WIND in Chicago and in 1946 to Salt Lake City’s KNAK. In 1950, he relocated to New York where he joined the staff of WNEW and became one of the “communicators” on NBC’s Monitor when it began in 1955. Two years later, NBC-TV installed him for five weeks as the host of the Tonight show when it was known as Tonight! America After Dark in the period between hosts Steve Allen and Jack Paar.[2]

In 1957, Collins appeared, as himself, as the star of an episode of NBC radio’s science fiction radio series X Minus One. He also hung out with the beatnik hipsters in North Beach during that time. In 1959, he was with KSFO in San Francisco. While at KSFO he would often say that he was broadcasting “from the purpleness of the Grotto”. He often mentioned his assistant “Harrison, the long-tailed purple Tasmanian owl”. During the 1960s, he was the host of Jazz for the Asking (VOA), and he worked with several Los Angeles stations during the late 1960s: KMET (1966), KFI (1967) and KGBS (1968).

He officially changed the spelling of his name to Jazzbeaux when he went to Pittsburgh’s WTAE in 1969. He moved to WIXZ in Pittsburgh (1973) before heading back to the West Coast three years later. While in Pittsburgh, he briefly hosted a late night television show entitled “Jazzbeauxz (he spelled the possessive with a ‘z.’) Rehearsal”. The show had nothing to do with any actual rehearsal, and was entirely an eclectic sampling of anything that caught Collins’ interest at the time. One of those “interests” was a long-running hard-boiled-egg spinning contest. He conducted the program from a barber chair, as he had on a previous TV show.

In the early 1960s Collins hosted a morning TV program, “The Al Collins Show,” that aired on KGO-TV in San Francisco (the ABC affiliate). The format included light talk and guest appearances. The guest lineup typically included local or state-wide celebrities, and B-list actors, such as Moe Howard of The Three Stooges.

A popular segment on his show was the “no stinkin’ badges” routine. Al would politely request the main guest for that day don a Mexican bandit costume, complete with ammo belts crossing the chest, six-guns in holsters, a huge sombrero and large fake mustache. The guest then had to pose in front of cameras and for the TV audience. With pistols pointing at the camera lens the guest had to say (with emphasis) “I don’t got to show you no stinkin’ badges.” If the guest did not say it with sufficient sinister tone Collins made him or her repeat it until in Al’s opinion the guest got it right. Collins’ bit was a play on a famous exchange in the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. In one scene some obviously very bad bandidos try to pass themselves off to Bogart as federales (police). Humphrey Bogart’s character knows they are not federales but nevertheless asks to see some badges. The bandito-in-charge responds “Badges?! I don’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badge.” Collins reduced the guest bandit’s lines to the single phrase so it was easy for the guest to recite.

In 1976 Al Collins returned to San Francisco working at KMPX, followed by a three-year all-night run at KGO which drew callers throughout the West Coast. He always opened with Count Basie’s “Blues in Hoss flat”. He also worked a late night shift at KKIS AM in Pittsburg, CA in 1980. After returning to New York and WNEW (1981), he was back in San Francisco at KSFO (1983) and KFRC (1986). Then came one more run at WNEW (1986–90), and then he joined KAPX (Marin County, California) in 1990, and from 1993 until his death, Jazzbeaux did a weekly jazz show at KCSM (College of San Mateo, California).

He died on September 30, 1997, at the age of 78, from pancreatic cancer. — with Al “Jazzbo” Collins, Al “Jazzbo” Collins and James Preston at KCSM Jazz 91

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Dailymotion http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ujdip_al-jazzbeaux-collins-movie-with-jon-hammond-kcsm-jazz-91_music

Jon Hammond Band Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jonhammondband/videos/vb.133709526657853/1076061095756020/?type=3&theater

Jon’s archive from 2014 Nashville Summer NAMM https://archive.org/details/LateRentThemeSongAcousticNationStage

Youtube https://youtu.be/4jTXzicbPiY

NAMM Details Page https://www.namm.org/summer/2015/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit

Jon Hammond Funk Unit

First time on the band: Cord Martin tenor sax!:

Artist Info
Joe Berger: Guitar
Roland Barber: Trombone
Louis Flip Winfield: Percussion
Evan Cobb: Tenor Saxophone
Jon Hammond: Organ
Cord Martin : Tenor Saxophone
Genre:
Jazz
Website:
http://www.jonhammondband.com
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/jonhammondband

Artist Bio:
JON HAMMOND Instruments: Organ, Accordion, Piano, Guitar Attended: Berklee College of Music 1974, City College San Francisco Languages: English, German Jon is closely identified with the two main products of his career, the Excelsior Accordion and the Hammond Organ. Musician: Jon Hammond is one of the premier B3 PLAYERS in the world. Jon has played professionally since age 12. Beginning as a solo accordionist, he later played Hammond B3 organ in a number of important San Francisco bands. His all original group HADES opened shows for Tower of Power, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Michael Bloomfield. Eddie Money and Barry Finnerty became musical associates. Moving East he attended Berklee College of Music and played venues as diverse as Boston’s “Combat Zone” in the striptease clubs during the ’70’s and the exclusive Wychmere Harbor Club in Cape Cod, where he was house organist with the late great trumpet player Lou Colombo and developed a lasting friendship with House Speaker Tip O’Neill. He also toured the Northeast and Canada with the successful show revue “Easy Living”, and continued his appearances at nightclubs in Boston and New York. Subsequently Hammond lived and traveled in Europe, where he has an enthusiastic following. TV/Video Producer: In 1981 Jon formed BackBeat Productions. Assisted by Lori Friedman (Video by LORI), the innovative TV show “The Jon Hammond Show” became a Manhattan Cable TV favorite. Jon’s “Live on the street” video style included news events, as well as live music/video clips of Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Butterfield, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Sledge and many others. The weekly show is now in it’s 30th year and has influenced the broadcasts of David Letterman and others. Billboard Magazine hailed Jon’s show as “The Alternative to MTV”. LINK http://youtu.be/7TApELTO1XI Head Phone

July 28 1989, Jazz Club, Cable Access TV Show, Jon Hammond #Mikell’s #PatMikell #HammondOrgan #BernardPurdie Local 802, Musicians Union