Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012

Joe Berger NAMM Oral History Interview Unedited Long Version Official 55 minutes 4 seconds

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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

Joe Berger NAMM Oral History Interview Unedited Long Version Official 55 minutes 4 seconds: Check it out folks, the real life story of Joe Berger who we all know and love - unedited, great job Joe! Jon Hammond
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Published on Dec 8, 2012
Joe Berger
Interview Date: January 20, 2012
Job Title: Musician, Product Endorser - short version here also
http://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/joe-berger
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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*LISTEN TO AUDIO HERE: Jon's Journal SF County Jail Show HammondCast

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HammondCast 17, 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
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"The FINGERS...Are The SINGERS!"...and the wind is blowing North by North East! Jon Hammond



2 very special jazz friends of mine this evening at Local 802 Musicians Union - Rudy Sheriff Lawless the great jazz drummer and beacon of inspiration - and Gina Reder aka Gina Jazz!
Jon Hammond — at Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM



On the Night Before The Big Vote - Jazz is alive and well one week after Hurricane Sandy at Local 802 Musicians Union in New York City folks!
This evening I played the early bird set with these great musicians, my all-time favorites here - L to R: The great Richard Clements jazz pianist extraordinaire, Mike Comoia the great veteran tenor saxophonist, myself Jon Hammond at the organ and one of the greatest jazz bassists in New York - Bob Cunningham, and he is a killin' vocalist occasionally and pianist as well - special thanks to Jazz Foundation of America *Note: Photo by Greg Bandy with my camera, thanks Greg! — with Bob Cunningham at Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM



Folks, I will be the #1 voter today at my polling place - got here 5AM, early shot so you know I am not messing around. In less than 45 minutes I'm going to be pulling the lever for President Obama and everybody in my building is also - I don't know one person who is voting for the other guy. NYPD is on the scene to make sure there won't be any hanky panky..this is the big day people! - Jon Hammond



#1 Voter at my polling place - photographic proof - Jon Hammond *Note: The scanning machine is scanning my paper ballot at 6:13AM. It is a little bit tricky, supervisor said mine was A-OK and of course I voted for President Obama and V.P. Joe Biden, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Democratic early bird voter here in New York City - JH — at Times Square



Get on down to your polling place and vote my fellow Americans! *Note: There is a tricky thing on the ballot - it says "Vote for any four" in one group of four. I had the supervisor come in and sure enough he told me that it is really "Vote for ONE of four" - he told me if I voted for all 4 it would invalidate my ballot. Take care to do it correctly folks.
Jon Hammond — at Times Square



Voting Day 2012 after-the-vote breakfast at the diner with Joe Berger and Jon Hammond the early bird voters in Times Square NYC — with Joe Berger at Theatre Row Diner



Yea'!!! It's President Obama & V.P. Joe Biden Folks!!! Many congratulations to everybody, we came..we voted..the people have spoken and we have a very good man and very good V.P. back in the Whitehouse for next 4 years - so fantastic!!
I voted for him super-early, they put #1 on my voting card at 6AM after waiting from 5 in the morning while still dark - I hear the people partying in Times Square outside my window - this is a great night and another new beginning, god bless and thanks to all my personal friends who came out and voted for President Obama all over the place, Jon Hammond New York NY USA



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New beginning god bless thanks to all my personal friends who came out & voted for President Obama, Jon Hammond NY USA pic.twitter.com/MHIgOCLl
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Yea'...Four more, congratulations everybody!! and especially to President Obama and V.P. Joe Biden, thank you for your dedicated service!! Jon Hammond — with President Barack Obama

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HammondCast 29 Jon's Journal December 8 2012

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HammondCast 29
HammondCast 29 (JON HAMMOND) Jon Hammond HammondCast 29, Jon Hammond tells the story of meeting an actual ZIMMERMANN at the bar of his friend's new club UPTOWN NIGHTCLUB in Oakland CA. Zimmerman men are a centuries-old tradition in Germany of Carpenter Apprentices who walk around for one year fixing people's roofs, and there he was at Uptown Nightclub! It is said that it's very good luck to see a Zimmermann! Music from Michael Maier-Falkenstein's cd "Hammond Explosion" original compositions: "Cry Until it Feels Good", "Time with You" and Jon's song "Six Year Itch". Also a feature of Oakland drummer Ronnie Smith Jr. on "Thing in C Minor" + songs from Jon's new album NDR SESSIONS Projekt...

San Francisco California -- Jon Hammond at the B3 organ with James Preston drums - Boom Boom Room Fillmore St. & Geary Avenue across the street from the Fillmore Auditorium



Jon Hammond & Band at BOOM BOOM ROOM Aug. 14
Outside concerts:
http://community-4.webtv.net/laterent/JONHAMMOND/
Sept. 29-Boedeckker Park, Tenderloin SF
Oct. 5-Yerba Buena Garden-SF
Sept. 13- in San Jose Airport Southwest Airlines Boarding Area
Oct. 10-Manhattan Plaza, New York City
Oct. 31-Halloween Party, Laguna Honda Hospital
Nov. 30-Boom Boom Room w/ James Brown's drummer Erik Hargrove
Dec. 5- Opera Plaza, S.F.
Dec. 8- Laguna Honda Hospital
Dec. 9-11 OLYMPIC VOYAGER
Dec. 25- HHRC Club
Jan. 8-11- Westin Rio Resort Puerto Rico
March 7-11- Frankfurt Musikmesse 2001
March 9 & 10th- Jazzkeller Hofheim 15 jahr Jubilee Party!
*Note: Special Thanks to the musicians...Erik Hargrove of James Brown Soul Generals, Kevin Mauder, Tyrone Starks, Christian Muenchinger, Steven King, Tony Horowitz, Lee Oskar (WAR), and especially main man Robert Hutya of Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and brother Otmar Hutya for helping to make the shows at Musikmesse 2001 a big success!! **And Marco Galeazzi, Donatella and the Excelsior CEMEX team...Special Grazzia!! FRITZ Magazine-Manuel Schreiner, Joachim "Jo-Jo" Tucksen and Jazzkeller Hofheim team, Yucel "ALI" Atiker-Frankfurt, Jennifer Frizzell United Airlines, Scott Cooper-Universal Video Studios, Joe Berger-B.E.A.M. Audio.
March 19th, 2001 Manhattan Plaza (my own birthday party with special friends!)
June 23 & 24th, Shoreline Ampitheatre-New Orleans by the Bay Food and Music Festival
March 2002- Musikmesse 2002 (16 year JUBILEE!)
*March 2002...Return to the Jazzkeller Hofheim! BIG PARTY!!
April 28th, 2001-Laguna Honda Hospital, 2 hour walkaround the wards with accordion
April 30th, John Lee Hooker's BOOM BOOM ROOM in San Francisco
June 2-Laguna Honda Hospital, Clarendon Building
June 9th 2001, Opening ceremonies for Emeryville California CITY HALL!
June 9th pm-Fairmont Hotel, grand piano
June 10th-Hotel Pierre, San Francisco
June 15th-Laguna Honda Hospital, Clarendon Building
*note! June 23 and 24th Shoreline Show with Bonnie Raitt and The Funky Meters!
July 1-Boom Boom Room, S.F.
July 10-Manhattan Plaza
July 13-NDR Radio Broadcast Hamburg Germany
July 17th-NOON TIME SHOW outside at 1275 Market St. San Francisco!
August 25th-solo accordion at Laguna Honda Hospital, Clarendon Building
August 29th-*NOTE! This show canceled NOON TIME SHOW outside at 525 Market St. San Francisco...don't go.
Sept. 20th: Taping: The Jon Hammond Show-big band arrangements of music of Led Zeppelin conducted by trumpeter Bill Warfield at Local 802 hall on W. 48th St. Manhattan
**tune in on Time/Warner MNN TV!
Sept. 30-Oct. 8th Hamburg Germany
Oct. 27th-Laguna Honda Hospital Psych Ward, solo accordion in wards
Oct. 27th-clubdate SF
Nov. 3rd-Laguna Honda Hospitals, "doubles" 4 hours of continuous accordion music in the wards
Nov. 5th-12th, recording sessions New York City
Nov. 18th-Boom Boom Room, S.F.
Dec. 12-Opera Plaza private holiday party
Dec. 14-private christmas party Alfred Hitchcock bldg.
Dec. 15-doubles in Laguna Honda Hospital
Dec. 19-SF County Women's Jail "Pod E" Women's Jail Facility
Dec. 21-Laguna Honda Hospital
Dec. 27-Kwaanza Celebration with Ronnie Smith-drums at Laguna Honda Hospital
Dec. 31-New Years party with Larry Schneider San Francisco
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2002!
Jan. 17 and 18 Jon Hammond at NAMM Anaheim!
Jan. 19-solo accordion Laguna Honda Hospital
Jan. 26-solo accordion in locked wards Laguna Honda Hospital
Jan. 27-doubles in Laguna Honda Hospital
Feb. 4th-Jury Duty New York City!
March 1st-Smiley's Schooner Saloon and Hotel, Bolinas CA with Barry Finnerty guitar
March 4th-Jon Hammond Funk Explosion at Boom Boom Room SF
March 14-Cafe KLEMM-Frankfurt
March 15 + 16th-Jazzkeller Hofheim (Germany)
March 30-solo show in Psychiatric Ward of Laguna Honda Hospital SF
April 8-American Legion Post Building, 248 132nd St. Harlem NYC
April 11-Cobb's Corner-S.F.
April 13-doubles at Lagua Honda Hospital
April 25-Laguna Honda Hospital
May 4-Laguna Honda Hospital
May 10-Chicago-Green Mill + Chicago Brauhaus
May 12-New York-American Legion Post 132nd St. Harlem
May 18-Solo Piano FOUR SEASONS HOTEL S.F.
May 19-Doubles: Laguna Honda Hospital S.F.
June 1 - Doubles: Laguna Honda Hospital, solo on Casio MZ2000
June 6 - Bruno's Nightclub and Restaurant S.F.,, trio on Hammond B3 organ
June 7 - Bruno's - trio gig and Police Sound Check pursuant to S.F. Police Commision Hearing
June 12- solo piano at Bruno's Nightclub
June 14- organ trio at Bruno's Nightclub SF.
June 22 and 23-SHORELINE AMPITHEATRE-the 14th annual NEW ORLEANS BY THE BAY FOOD AND MUSIC FESTIVAL..opening show for Taj Mahal and Delbert McClinton!
July 6- American Legion Post, Harlem NYC 132nd St.
July 9- Recording session with Joe Berger NYC
July 13- wedding in Nevada City CA
July 19- Laguna Honda Hospital SF
July 25- East Park Apartments' "Tony" the maintenance man's retirement luncheon S.F.
July 25- Bruno's Nightclub S.F. - organ trio
Aug. 17- Wedding gig Central Park NYC
Aug. 24- doubles accordion gig at Laguna Honda Hospital
Aug. 25- Cotati Accordion Festival
Aug. 27- Jon Hammond Trio at Bruno's SF
Sept. 6- session with guitarist Bill Wurtzel NYC
Sept. 9- production meeting with Bernard Purdie
Sept. 11- 9/11 United Airlines / Amercian Airlines Memorial Tribute to the Heroes in Washington Square Park NYC
Sept. 19- 2 hour accordion concert Times Square Subway sation
Sept. 22- recording session with Ronnie Smith and Alex Budman in Local 6 hall San Frandcisco
Sept. 28th- Doubles accordion gig in Clarnedon Hall, Laguna Honda Hospital S.F.
October 16-19 MUSIC CHINA Shanghai China!
Oct. 16th evening, Jon will perform at the Shanghai Grand Theatre- Opening Night Reception of Music China with FangLin the phenomenal 14 year old accordion champion of China!
While in Shanghai Mr. Hammond is a guest of the Renaissance Yangtze Shanghai Hotel: (0086).21-627.50000
Oct. 28- Laguna Honda Hospital, "doubles" solo
Oct. 29- Recording at Local 6 hall SF
Oct. 29- Bruno's SF with Ronnie Smith/Alex Budman *spcl. guests: Michael Rinta & Joe Rodriguez
Nov. 5/6- recording new record- Unique Studios Times Square NYC w/Alex Budman, Ronnie Smith and Joe Berger at the controls.
Nov. 16- taping for TV: "Alice in Wonderland" show with Igor & Ilona Kisil and Company at the world-famous Odessa Nightclub in Brighton Beach Brooklyn
Nov. 23- Osaka Japan-Rug Time w/ Midori Ono
Nov. 27- Photo Shoot for cover: "Hammond's Bolero" Brennan's and train track Berkeley CA
Nov. 30- Doubles Laguna Honda Hospital- SF
Dec. 3, 4, 5- Studio sessions w/Joe Berger- NYC
Dec. 10- Opera Plaza Christmas event- S.F.
Dec. 16- SF County Jail #8, "Pod E"
Dec. 21- Doubles Laguna Honda Hospital- S.F.
Dec. 25th - Christmas show Laguna Honda Hospital
Dec. 30 - Session with saxophonist Don Pender and drummer Bob Ramirez at Local 6 Union Hall
HAPPY NEW YEARS
Jan. 16- NAMM Anaheim
Jan. 21- Frankfurt Germany
Jan. 22/23 NDR Radio Hamburg
Jan. 24- Hamburg Germany- Birdland Jazz Club with Lutz Buchner- tenor sax, Heinz Lichius- drums
*note: Birdland gig was packed!! **Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper wrote:
Ob Doors-Liebhaber oder Baseball Freak: Sie alle lieben die SCHWEINEORGEL besser bekannt als Hammondorgel Ein Meister am Erzdamon der Musikinstrumente ist nomen est omen - Jon Hammond. Der Tastengott und TV - Pionier ist zurzeit mit Lutz Buchner, Ed Harris, und Heinz Lichius unterwegs, um Groove-Jazz mit maximaler Ausdrucskraft zum Besten zu geben. Am 24.1. (21Uhr) macht Jon Hammond Station im Birdland (Gartnerstrasse 122). Eintritt 9 Euro

Feb. 1 - Laguna Honda Hospital solo show
Feb. 14 - Happy Valentine's Day everybody! My cd just went on sale at NYC's oldest record store: COLONY RECORDS ! Broadway & W. 49th St.
Feb. 15 - American Legion Post, 248 132nd St. Harlem NY with trumpetist Sheldon "The Big Dipper" Sweeper!
Feb. 28 - Live on radio KPOO 89.5FM with JJ!
March 1 - 4pm-Tower Records SF (Columbus & Bay St.) in-store party/concert with food and special guests! To promote new cd HAMMOND'S BOLERO with Jon Hammond Trio live
March 5-9 Musikmesse Frankfurt Germany
March 7th/8th-Jazzkeller Hofheim (near Frankfurt) Musikmesse party/concert with Harry Petersen-sax (HR Radio Band) and Heinz Lichius-drums (NDR Radio Band) *plus special guest LEE OSKAR
March 17th-Radio appearance on Pete Fallico's DOODLIN' LOUNGE show at KUSP FM: www.KUSP.org streaming worldwide!
March 29th-doubles Laguna Honda Hospital SF
*Note: Canceled due to War: April 3-20th nightly show aboard world's fastest cruise ship Royal Olympia Explorer Ft. Lauderdale to Portugal, Casablanca, Tunisia, Venice, Piraeus Greece
April 20th- Easter Jazz Brunch at ROTH'S STEAKHOUSE W. 93rd & Coumbus New York City with Bill Wurtzel-guitar 12noon-4pm
April 28th, 8.30pm-Release Party/Concert with Joe Berger and band at Le Bar Bat NYC on W. 57th St.
May 3, 2.30pm - release party/concert with Alan Hall-drums and Alex Budman-tenorsax at RASPUTIN RECORDS on Telegraph Ave. Berkeley. Free Fantastic Food! and 1 hour concert!
May 10- Laguna Honda Hospital, doubles
May 22-Pumpkins, Brooklyn NY in trio with Clarence "Tootsie" Bean-drums, Bill Saxton-sax, Jon on XB-2
June 7-Irish Cultural Center with Jimi James 45th and Sloat San Francisco
June 8-Laguna Honda Hospital
June 9th at 3pm Pacific Time - live in-studios of KCSM radio with program director Jesse Chuy Varela! listen worldwide on stream! *click wwwKCSM.org
June 21/22- First time in Moscow Russia! with incredible tenor saxophonist Igor Butman and Eduard Zizak-drums! - Le Club Moscow
Hammond's Bolero now on WBGO Rotation Playlist!
June 27- WBGO visit with Gary Walker
June 29- Special guest at WBGO Members Party
June 30- 9:30pm East Coast time: worldwide streaming broadcast of The Jon Hammond Show tv show! channel 56 at www.MNN.org
July 8- Crossroads in Garwood NJ, WBGO's Stan Meyers hosting
July 19- Jazz Brunch 12-4PM: Roth's Westside Steakhouse NYC with Bill Wurtzel-guitar, Rudy Lawless-drums
July 22- Roth's Westside Steakhouse NY with guitarist Bill Wurtzel
July 31- recording session w/Larry Newcomb-gtr. at Local 802 hall
Aug. 6- Private Party Opera Plaza San Francisco
Aug. 7- Virgin Megastore SF (Market/Stockton) in-store party/concert at 1PM with Ronnie Smith Jr.-dums, Marc Baum-tenor sax, jh-Hammond org.
Aug. 8, 9, 10, 16- Laguna Honda Hospital
Aug. 15- Radio interview taping with Louie Bellson at Jazz Nouveau San Francisco
Sept. 6- American Legion Post, Harlem NYC 248, 132nd St. NY with Sheldon "Big Dipper" Sweeper-trumpet and special guests
Sept. 8/9- Eddie Money Portland Maine
Sept. 18- Guest of Jazz At Lincoln Center "Moscow Nights" concert with Igor Butman Bigband together with Wynton Marsalis' Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Alice Tully Hall
Sept. 25th, CANCELED: 12Noon-1:30PM San Francisco Opera Plaza Fountain
Sept. 27/28- Laguna Honda Hospital
Oct. 2/4th- Laguna Honda Hospital
Oct. 9- Featured on Voice Of America Radio (VOA) "Border Crossings Show"!
Oct. 15-18th- Music China Shanghai China
Oct. 17 & 18th- Portman Ritz Carlton Hotel Shanghai with drummer Danny Woody! saxophone tba
Oct. 25th- Duo with Marc Baum- Fairmont Hotel Venetian Room SF for Lowell High School Sports Foundation
Oct. 28/29th- 2 nights with Eddie Money! at Iron Door Saloon, Groveland California
Oct. 29th- Solo at Hole #1 tee-off of Eddie Money Celebrity Golf Tournament, Pine Mountain Lake benefit for Tioga High School *Condolences to the Barsotti Family on the tragic death of Bettike Barsotti, she and surviving husband Peter are proprietors of Iron Door Saloon.
Oct. 31-campaign work for relection of SF District Attorney Terence Hallinan, 724 Van Ness SF
Nov. 1- Solo show at Laguna Honda Hospital
Nov. 6- Cancelonie
Nov. 15- Jazz Factory- Louisville Kentucky
Nov. 19-23- Castelfidardo Italy Excelsior tour
Dec. 4- Post Net one year anniversary party-Vallejo CA
Dec. 9- SF County Jail #8 women's facility
Dec. 10th- Private party Opera Plaza San Francisco
Dec. 11th- Laguna Honda Hospital
Dec. 13th- secure psych ward gig
Dec. 18-25- sessions in New York City
Dec. 24th- Roth's Westside Steakhouse Christmas Eve Show! 93rd & Columbus New York City
Dec. 31- New Years at Hotel Charlotte Groveland CA
Jan. 7- Live KPOO 89.5 "Blues w/Noel Show", 9-11AM...worldwide at www.KPOO.com !
Jan. 8- Laguna Honda Hospital main building 7PM
Jan. 15-18th- NAMM Show Anaheim Calfornia
Jan. 21-25- IAJE Hilton Hotel New York City
Feb. 2- 20th Anniversary of The Jon Hammond Show! which has run uninterrupted for 20 years. Cocktail reception at Roth's Steakhouse
Feb. 4- Trio with Bill Wurtzel and Rudy Lawless 6-10PM
Feb. 5 & 6- Guest of James Brown Band at BB King's NY
Feb. 11th- Press Conference: Laurie Anderson "New Sound...New York"
Feb. 12th- Session: Pumpkins Brooklyn, NY with Clarence "Tootsie" Bean, George Braith, Greg Lewis
Feb. 18- Berklee College of Music workshop
Feb. 20- Guest of Sons of Champlin, McNear's Mystic Theatre, Petaluma CA
Feb. 21- Laughing Duck Winery, Ukiah CA
Feb. 22- Laguna Honda Hospital
Feb. 22- Hilton Hotel Reno Nevada
Feb. 23- Penn Valley, CA
Feb. 23- Jon Hammond Show TV: Jazz Factory special from Louisville KY
Feb. 28- Laguna Honda Hospital
March 11- Guest Appearance with drummer Tootsie Bean at Pumpkins, Brooklyn NY *Carol Sudhalter-saxes
March 12- Photo Session with Sheldon "Big Dipper" Sweeper and Dido the drummer at St. Nick's Pub, 149th St. Harlem
March 22- Roth's Westside Steakhouse with guitarist Bill Wurtzel 6-10PM
March 25 & 28- Laguna Honda Hospital
March 31-April 4th- Musikmesse Frankfurt Germany
April 2/3- Jazzkeller Hofheim Musikmesse Party!
*with: Heinz Lichius-drums, Kevin Mauder-tenor sax, Joe Berger-guitar
Mini-tour in North Germany *with: Heinz cLichius-drums, Gabriel Coburger-tenor sax, Joe Berger-guitar, Jon Hammond-organ
April 5- Blue Montag: Ham-Berger Band in Harburg at Schnulze!
April 7- Blue Moon Bar, Bremen Germany
April 9- Birdland Hamburg Ham-Berger Band! with Heinz Lichius, tenor sax: Gabriel Coburger
April 16- Laguna Honda Hospital San Francisco
April 29- WBGO 25 Year Anniversary Celebration participation www.WBGO.org
May 3- Guest with Jon Paris at BB King's New York City
May 6- Special Guest of Cirque Du Soleil Musicians at opening night Alegria at Randall's Island NY
May 14- Special Guest of Eddie Money at Northern Lights Albany/Clifton Park NY
May 24- The Jon Hammond Show TV First-Ever All-Digital Broadcast!
May 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26-WBGO studios fund drive
June 5&6- Millennium Theatre Brooklyn: Filming Igor Butman Bigband & Larisa Dolina for Jon Hammond TV Show
June 8- Birdland NYC: Filming Igor Butman Bigband & Larisa Dolina for Jon Hammond TV Show
June 24- Hipbone Records' studio session
July 9- Rondure Music Club, 24 Prince St. (Soho) New York City, duo with saxophonist Tim Armacost
July 17 & 18- Concerts in Moscow-CANCELED-Le Club with Igor Butman & Eduard Zizak
July 24 & 25th- Laguna Honda Hospital
July 28- KPOO Radio broadcast on "Blues With Noel Show" 10AM-2PM
July 29&30th- Jon Hammond Quartet at Grant & Green in North Beach San Francisco
Aug. 5- Laguna Honda Hospital SF
Aug. 7- Laguna Honda Hospital SF
Aug. 13- Duo with saxophonist Tim Armacost at Rondure Music Club/Restaurant NY www.rondurenyc.com www.timarmacost.com
Aug. 21- Jazzkeller Frankfurt returning after many years! with Kevin Mauder-tenor sax Joe Berger live DVD filming, join the party!
Aug. 27- Schnulze, Harburg-Hamburg Germany
Sept. 4- 19 Broadway Fairfax Cal. JH Band
Sept. 19- Jazz Ambassadors Tour adjudicating-Canceled
Sept. 17,18, 20,21, 22- WBGO 6AM
Sept. 22- receiving first Sidekick II unit
Oct. 2- Postponed: Accordion sub: Fiddler On The Roof on Broadway NYC
Oct. 8- Guest of Joe Berger/David Marx, Huckapoo debut concert at Town Hall www.huckapoo.com
Oct. 12- Laguna Honda Hospital SF Cal.
Oct. 15- Laguna Honda Hospital
Oct. 17- Fly to Shanghai China
Oct. 19- Play at Ritz Carlton Hotel Shanghai with Danny Woody and shows at Music China through Oct. 23rd
Oct. 28th- AES Berklee College of Music Alumni Night
Oct. 30- Laguna Honda Hospital SF
Oct. 31- Fly to New York
Nov. 2nd- DON'T FORGET TO VOTE...For Kerry!
Nov.3rd- VOA Radio 15:00 UTC
Nov. 6- Cleopatra's Needle NY Jon Hammond Quartet with Matt Smith-guitar & Tootsie Bean-drums & Brett Ryan-alto sax
Nov. 13- Tunica Miracle Tour with Larry Liddell, Tunica Mississippi
Nov. 14- WROX 1450 AM Blues radio appearance, Home of the Blues! Clarksdale Mississippi www.wroxblues.com
Nov. 14- Guest at Aretha Franklin concert-Horeshoe Casino, Bluesville Robinsonville/Tunica MS *Special thanks: Larry Liddell Tunica Miracle!
Nov. 22- Jon Hammond Show TV Show broadcast from Cleopatra's Needle Club
Nov. 25- Happy Thanksgiving! Turkey dinner on United Airlines flight
Nov. 27&28th- Laguna Honda Hospital
Dec. 6- Jon Hammond Trio live in SF County Jail #8, 4th year!
Dec. 7- Laguna Honda Hospital
Dec. 8- Live for 1 hour at 1PM on KCSM 91.1 Jazz Radio with Chris Cortez
Dec. 11- Laguna Honda Hospital
Dec. 12- Guest at Bobby Blue Bland concert, Diamond Hall SF Sunday Blues & Jazz Club
Dec. 15- *note: Canceled, harpist hired: Private party: Opera Plaza SF
Dec. 17- Laguna Honda Hospital Christmas Party
Dec. 20- Microsoft's *new MSN TV2 & Jon Hammond go online, streaming worldwide at the speed of light!
Dec. 31/Jan. 1-Happpy New Years 2005! Times Square NY
European tour support by Hammond Deutschland, Michael Maier Falkenstein:
Jan 1- New Years Eve in Times Square NY!
Jan. 3- Ruth's Chris Steakhouse San Francisco
Jan. 5-8 IAJE Convention Long Beach CA
Jan. 6- ASCAP/IAJE Commissions Gil Evans Fellowship, Terrace Theatre
Jan. 7- NEA Jazz Masters Awards
Jan. 9- Laguna Honda Hospital
Jan. 10-14- Macworld San Francisco
Jan. 11- Meeting with Apple's Steve Jobs !
Jan. 18- Laguna Honda Hospital
Jan. 18 James Brown show, House of Blues Anaheim CA CANCELED
Jan. 20-23 NAMM Anaheim CA
Jan. 29- Laguna Honda Hospital
Jan. 31- Local 6 Union Meeting
Feb. 2- 21st year anniversary of Jon Hammond Show TV Show! Beginning 22nd year.
Feb. 6- Laguna Honda Hospital
Feb. 9- Laguna Honda Hospital
Feb. 11- Laguna Honda Hospital
Feb. 12- Laguna Honda Hospital
March 12- EDITH PIAF CAFE-Paris France!
March 14- ONE WAY CAFE- Paris France!-Canceled! (by me)
March 17-funeral- Suisun Valley CA
March 18- Laguna Honda Hospital SF CA
March 28- Flying to Germany! Arrive Hamburg 3/29
Mar. 31- Multimedia with Michael August ILLUSTRATORP at VILLON in Hamburg by Hauptbahnhof!
April 1 & 2- Hamburg Germany/NDR Radio
April 5- Jazzkeller Frankfurt : Musikmesse 2005 Party! JON HAMMOND BAND
April 6-9- Frankfurt Musikmesse
April 15- Cleopatra's Needle Club-NYC Tax Day Party!
April 27-CANCELED! Promoter is out of there!
Smith's Restaurant Bar-NYC 44th St.
May 28- Laguna Honda Hospital
May 29- Laguna Honda Hospital
June 4- Guest-Aretha Franklin Gospelfest
June 4- late night: Guest- Igor & Illonka Kissil at Odessa in Brighton Beach Brooklyn
June 5- WBGO Volunteers Party
June 7- Southwest Airlines BWI Interview
June 25- Laguna Honda Hospital
June 27- Laguna Honda Hospital
July 4- Laguna Honda Hospital (doubles)
July 4- Guest- Shoreline Amitheatre 4th of July San Francisco Symphony Orchestra & Fireworks! produced by Mick Brigden
July 6- Laguna Honda Hospital
July 9- Laguna Honda Hospital
July 23- Berklee College of Music Alum Songwriters Workshop
July 27- Nursing Home show-NYC
Aug. 27- Laguna Honda Hospital
Aug. 28- Laguna Honda Hospital
Sept. 5- Laguna Honda Hospital
Sept. 6- Laguna Honda Hospital
Sept. 16- Cleopatra's Needle NYC
Sept. 22- Nursing Home show-NYC
Oct. 18- Music China Warm Up Party-Shanghai Ritz-Carlton
Dec. 2-4 NDR Radio Studio 1 Hamburg Germany
Dec. 8- Nursing home show NYC —

San Francisco California -- Jon Hammond: Nancy Pelosi is handing off the microphone that I had just handed her to Mayor Willie Brown after she spoke at Birthday Party for San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan - Happy Birthday Terence! (Dec. 4th) - I was on the bandstand at my 1965 Hammond B3 organ with a quintet in the big room at Rasselas Jazz Club on Fillmore St. SF."



- Nancy Pelosi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi ( /pəˈloʊsi/; born March 26, 1940) is the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as the 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. She was the first woman to hold the office and to date is the highest-ranking female politician in American history.[1]
A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi has represented California's 8th congressional district, which consists of four-fifths of the city and county of San Francisco, since 1987. The district was numbered as the 5th during Pelosi's first three terms in the House. She served as the House Minority Whip from 2002 to 2003, and was House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007, holding the post during the 108th and 109th Congresses. Pelosi is the first woman, the first Californian and first Italian-American to lead a major party in Congress. After the Democrats took control of the House in 2007 and increased their majority in 2009, Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House for the 110th and 111th Congresses.
On November 17, 2010, Pelosi was elected as the Democratic Leader by House Democrats and therefore the Minority Leader in the Republican-controlled House for the 112th Congress.
House Minority Leader
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2011
Deputy Steny Hoyer
Preceded by John Boehner
In office
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007
Deputy Steny Hoyer
Preceded by Dick Gephardt
Succeeded by John Boehner
60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
In office
January 4, 2007 – January 3, 2011
President George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Preceded by Dennis Hastert
Succeeded by John Boehner
House Minority Whip
In office
January 15, 2002 – January 3, 2003
Leader Dick Gephardt
Preceded by David Bonior
Succeeded by Steny Hoyer
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from California's 8th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 1993
Preceded by Ron Dellums
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from California's 5th district
In office
June 2, 1987 – January 3, 1993
Preceded by Sala Burton
Succeeded by Bob Matsui
Personal details
Born Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro
March 26, 1940 (age 72)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Political party Democratic Party
Spouse(s) Paul Pelosi (1963–present)
Children Nancy Corinne Pelosi
Christine Pelosi
Jacqueline Pelosi
Paul Pelosi
Alexandra Pelosi
Residence Cannon H.O.B. (Official)
San Francisco, California (Private)
Alma mater Trinity Washington University
Religion Roman Catholicism
Mayor Willie Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Brown_(politician)
Willie Lewis Brown, Jr. (born March 20, 1934) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served over 30 years in the California State Assembly, spending 15 years as its Speaker, and afterward served as the 41st mayor of San Francisco, the first African American to do so. Under the current California term limits law, no Speaker of the California State Assembly will ever have a longer tenure than Brown's.[1] The San Francisco Chronicle called Brown “one of San Francisco’s most notable mayors” that had “celebrity beyond the city’s boundaries.”[2]
Brown was born in Mineola, Texas and attended a segregated high school. He moved to San Francisco in 1951, attending San Francisco State, graduating in 1955 with a degree in liberal studies.[3] Brown earned a J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1958. He spent several years in private practice before gaining election in his second attempt to the California Assembly in 1964. Brown became the Democrats' whip in 1969 and Speaker in 1980. He was known for his ability to manage people and maintain party discipline. According to The New York Times, Brown became one of the country's most powerful state legislators.[4] His long tenure and powerful position were used as a focal point of California's initiative campaign to limit the terms of state legislators, which passed in 1990. During the last of his three allowed post-initiative terms, Brown maintained control of the Assembly despite a slim Republican majority by gaining the vote of several Republicans. Near the end of his final term, Brown left the legislature to become mayor of San Francisco.
Brown served as San Francisco mayor from January 8, 1996 until January 8, 2004. His tenure as mayor is marked by a significant increase in real estate development, public works, city beautification, and other large-scale city projects. He presided over the "dot-com" era at a time when San Francisco's economy was rapidly expanding. Brown presided over the city’s most diverse administration with more Asian Americans, women, Latinos, gays, and African Americans than his predecessors.[2] He increased San Francisco's funding of MUNI by tens of millions of dollars. He ended San Francisco's policy of punishing people for feeding the homeless.
The SF Board of Supervisors opposed Brown's agenda and some of his initiatives, in particular office and housing development.[5] Brown was restricted by term limits from running for mayor and was succeeded by a political protege, fellow Democrat Gavin Newsom. After being "termed out" of the mayor's office, Brown officially retired from politics, although he had often been associated with former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who served for seven years after the end of Brown's Mayoral tenure.[6][7] and participates in fundraising and advising other politicians.
41st Mayor of San Francisco
In office
January 8, 1996 – January 8, 2004
Preceded by Frank Jordan
Succeeded by Gavin Newsom
58th Speaker of the
California State Assembly
In office
December 2, 1980 – June 5, 1995
Preceded by Leo McCarthy
Succeeded by Doris Allen
Member of the California State Assembly from District 13
In office
1992–1995
Member of the California State Assembly from District 17
In office
1974–1992
Member of the California State Assembly from District 18
In office
1965–1974
Personal details
Born Willie Lewis Brown, Jr.
March 20, 1934 (age 78)
Mineola, Texas
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Blanche Vitero, separated
Residence San Francisco, California
Profession Attorney
Religion Methodist
Military service
Service/branch National Guard
Brown was born in Mineola, a small segregated town in east Texas marked by racial tensions,[9] to Minnie Collins Boyd and Lewis Brown. Brown was the fourth of five children.[10] During Brown's childhood, mob violence periodically erupted in Mineola, keeping African Americans from voting. His first job was as a shoeshine boy in a whites-only barber shop.[10] He later worked as a janitor, fry cook, and field hand.[11] He learned his work ethic at a young age from his grandmother.[10] He graduated from MacFarland High School, an all-Black school he later described as substandard, and left for San Francisco in August 1951 at the age of 17 to live with his uncle.
Brown originally wanted to attend Stanford University. His interviewer from Stanford also taught at San Francisco State and was surprised by Brown’s ambition. Brown did not meet the qualifications for San Francisco State, but the professor got him enrolled on probation.[10] Brown adjusted to college studies after working especially hard to catch up in his first semester.[12] He joined the Young Democrats and became friends with John L. Burton.[10] Brown originally wanted to be a math instructor but campus politics changed his ambitions. He became active in his church and the San Francisco NAACP. Brown worked as a doorman, janitor and shoe salesman to pay for college. Brown is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.[12] He also joined the ROTC. Brown earned a bachelor's degree in political science from San Francisco State College in 1955.[13] Brown later stated that his decision to go to law school was "more upon the avoidance of military service than anything else." He quit the ROTC and joined the National Guard reserve where he was trained as a dental hygienist. Brown attended Hastings College of the Law where he also worked as a janitor to pay for law school. Brown befriended future San Francisco Mayor George Moscone for whom Brown would later manage a campaign.[12] Brown earned a J.D. in 1958 and was class president at Hastings.
In September 1958, Brown married Blanche Vitero, with whom he had three children, Susan, Robin, and Michael. He has four grandchildren, Besia, Matea, Mateo, and Lordes, and a step-granddaughter, Tyler. The couple separated in approximately 1976 but remain married. He has a daughter, Sydney Brown, by political fund raiser Carolyn Carpeneti.[14]
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Brown was one of a few African Americans practicing law in San Francisco when he opened his own practice.[10] He practiced criminal defense law, representing pimps, prostitutes, and other clients that more prominent attorneys would not represent.[10] One early case was to defend Mario Savio on his first civil disobedience arrest. He quickly became involved in the civil rights movement, leading a well-orchestrated sit-in to protest housing discrimination after a local real estate office refused to work with him because of his race.[11] Brown helped organize the public protest and helped attract media coverage. His role in the protests gave him the notoriety to run for the Assembly.
Brown began his first run for the Assembly by having local African American ministers pass around a hat, collecting US$700.[10] He lost the election to the California State Assembly in 1962 by 600 votes before winning a second election in 1964.[15]
[edit]California State Assembly

Brown was one of four African Americans in the Assembly in 1964. He continued to be reelected to the Assembly until 1995. In the 1960s, Brown served as the Chair of the Legislative Representation Committee, a powerful Assembly position that helped Brown climb the Assembly ranks.[3] He became the Democrats' Assembly whip in 1969.[3] Brown also served on the Assembly Ways and Means Committee.[15] In 1972, he delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention. He lost his bid for the speakership in 1972. In 1975, Willie Brown authored and lobbied the successful passing of the Consenting Adult Sex Bill that legalized homosexuality in California, thus earning the strong and lasting support of San Francisco's gay community. During the 1970s, Brown continued to expand his legal practice that was representing several major developers. He won the Speakership in 1980 with 28 Republican and 23 Democratic votes.
Brown was California's first African American Speaker of the Assembly, and served in the office from 1981 to 1995. In 1990, Brown helped negotiate an end to a 64 day budget standoff. In 1994, Brown gained the vote of a few Republicans to maintain the Speakership when the Democrats lost control of the Assembly to the Republicans led by Jim Brulte. Brown regained control in 1995 by making a deal with Republican defectors Doris Allen and Brian Setencich, both of whom were elected Speaker by the Democratic minority.[16] During their tenures, Brown was the de facto Speaker.
Brown's long service in the Assembly and political connections, his strong negotiation skills, and the Assembly's tenure system for leadership appointments, combined to give Brown nearly complete control over the California Legislature by the time he became Assembly Speaker. According to The New York Times, Brown became one of the country's most powerful state legislators.[4] He nicknamed himself the "Ayatollah of the Assembly".[17]
Brown was extremely popular in his home of San Francisco, though less so in the rest of the state.[18] Nevertheless, he wielded great control over statewide legislative affairs and political appointments, making it difficult for his conservative opponents to assail his power. Partially to remove Brown from his leadership position, a state constitutional amendment initiative was proposed and passed by the electorate in 1990, imposing term limits on state legislators.[5][19] Brown became the focus of the initiative. Brown raised just under US$1 million to defeat the initiative.[20] The California Legislature challenged the law but it was upheld by the courts.[20][21] California Proposition 140 also cut the legislature's staff budget by 30 percent, causing Brown to reduce legislative staff by at least 600.[20] After term limits forced Brown out of office, the Assembly re-structured its rules to give most of the powers formerly held by the Speaker to a leadership committee made up of senior members of both major parties.
Brown gained a reputation for knowing what was occurring in the state legislature at all times.[22] In 1992, he gave US$1.18 million to the Democratic Party to help with voter registration and several campaigns, some of which was from contributions from tobacco companies and insurance companies. As Speaker, he worked to defeat the Three Strikes Law. Critics have claimed Brown did not do enough to raise the legislature’s ethical standards or to protect the environment.[10] During his time in Sacramento, Brown estimates he raised close to US$75 million to help elect and reelect state Democrats.[23]
Brown lead efforts in the Assembly for state universities to divest from South Africa and to increase AIDS research funding. Brown helped attain state funds for San Francisco, including funding for public health and mental health funds. Brown held the 1992 state budget for 63 days until Governor Pete Wilson added another US$1.1 billion for public schools.[10]
Brown had a reputation in the Assembly for his ability to manage people. Brown attained the vote of Doris Allen by treating her with the respect she thought she deserved. Republican State Senator Ken Maddy of Fresno noted Brown’s ability to “size up the situation and create, sometimes on the spot, a winning strategy.” According to Hobson, "He was a brilliant day care operator. ... He knew exactly how to hold the hand of his Assembly members. He dominated California politics like no other politician in the history of the state".[10]
[edit]Peoples Temple investigation
Main article: Political Alliances of the People's Temple
From 1975 to 1978, Brown supported the Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, while it was being investigated for alleged criminal wrongdoing. Brown attended the Temple perhaps a dozen times and served as master of ceremonies at a testimonial dinner for Jones where he stated in his introduction "[l]et me present to you a combination of Martin King, Angela Davis, Albert Einstein ... Chairman Mao."[24][25][26] Brown later said "If we knew then he was mad, clearly we wouldn't have appeared with him."[27]
[edit]Mayor of San Francisco

In 1995, Brown ran for Mayor of San Francisco. In his announcement speech, Brown said San Francisco needed a “resurrection” and that he would bring the “risk-taking leadership” the city needed.[23] Brown placed first in the first round of voting, but because no candidate received 50 percent of the vote, he ran against incumbent Frank Jordan in the December runoff. Brown gained the support of Supervisor Roberta Achtenberg who had placed third in the first round of voting. Brown campaigned on working to address poverty and problems with Muni. He called Jordan the "inept bumbler" and criticized his leadership. Jordan criticized Brown for his relations with special interests during his time in the State Assembly.[4] Brown easily defeated Jordan in the runoff.
Brown's inaugural celebration included an open invitation party with 10,000 attendees and local restaurants providing 10,000 meals to the homeless.[2][28] President Bill Clinton called Brown to congratulate him, and the congratulations were broadcast to the crowd. He delivered his inaugural address without notes and led the orchestra in “Stars and Stripes Forever". He arrived at the event in a horse-drawn carriage.[2] According to the New York Times, Brown was one of the nation’s few liberal big city mayors when he was elected in 1996.
In 1996, more than two thirds of San Franciscans approved of Brown's job performance.[29] As mayor, Brown made several appearances on national talk shows.[2] Brown called for expansions to the San Francisco budget to provide for new employees and programs. In 1999, Brown proposed hiring 1,392 new city workers and proposed a second straight budget with a US$100 million surplus. He helped to oversee the settling of a two-day garbage strike in April 1997.[22] During Brown's tenure, San Francisco’s budget increased to US$5.2 billion and the city added 4,000 new employees. Brown tried to develop a plan for universal health care, but there wasn’t enough in the budget to do so.[2] Brown put in long days as mayor, scheduling days of solid meetings and, at times, conducting two meetings at the same time.[22] Brown opened City Hall on Saturdays to answer questions.[17] He would later claim of his mayorship that he helped restore the city’s spirit and pride.[22]
Brown's opponents in his 1999 mayoral reelection campaign were former Mayor Frank Jordan and Clint Reilly. They criticized Brown for spending the city’s US$ 1 billion in budget growth without addressing the city’s major problems and creating an environment in city hall of corruption and patronage.[22] Tom Ammiano was a late write-in candidate and he faced Brown in the runoff election. Brown won reelection by a 20 percent margin. He was supported by most major developers and business interests. Ammiano campaigned on a promise that he would raise the minimum wage to US$ 11 per hour and scrutinize corporate business taxes. Brown repeatedly claimed that Ammiano would raise taxes. President Clinton recorded a telephone message on Brown’s behalf. Brown’s campaign spent US$ 3.1 million to Ammiano’s US$ 300,000.[30] The 1999 mayoral race was the subject of the documentary See How They Run.[31]
[edit]Crime and public safety
Although scheduled on a flight to New York City the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Brown received an alert from his SFO security detail and cancelled. After learning of the attacks, he ordered the city to close schools and courts, concerned over the potential for terrorist attacks in the city, and recommended to representatives of the Bank of America Tower and Transamerica Pyramid that they should also close.[32]
In February 2003, Brown's appointed Police Chief, Earl Sanders, and several top officials at the San Francisco Police Department were arrested for conspiring to obstruct the police investigation into an incident involving off-duty officers that was popularly called "Fajitagate".[2]
[edit]Social policy
Brown ended San Francisco’s policy of punishing people for feeding the homeless. San Francisco continued to enforce its policy regarding the conduct of the homeless in public places.[33] In 1998, Brown supported forcibly removing homeless people from Golden Gate Park and police crackdowns on the homeless for drunkenness, urinating, defecating, or sleeping on the sidewalk. Brown introduced job training programs and a $11 million drug treatment program. San Francisco, then the United States' 13th largest city, had the nation's third largest homeless population at a peak of 16,000.[29] In November 1997, he requested nighttime helicopter searches in Golden Gate Park.[2] The Brown administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars creating new shelters, supportive housing, and drug treatment centers to address homelessness, but these measures did not end San Francisco’s problem with homelessness.[2]
In 1996, Brown approved the Equal Benefits Ordinance that required city contractors to provide domestic partner benefits to their employees.[2] In 1998, Brown wrote a letter to President Clinton urging him to halt a federal lawsuit aimed at closing medical marijuana clubs.[34]
[edit]Transportation
[edit]Mass Transit
One of Brown’s central campaign promises was his “100-Day Plan for Muni.”[22] Brown supported the "Peer Pressure" Bus Patrol program, which paid former gang members and troubled youth to patrol Muni buses. Brown claimed the program helped reduce crime.[35] He fired Muni chief Phil Adams and replaced him with his chief of staff Emilio Cruz. In 1998, Brown was Mayor during the summer of the Muni meltdown as Muni implemented the new ATC system and Brown promised riders there would be better times ahead. A voter approved initiative in the following year would help improve Muni services. Brown increased Muni's budget by tens of millions of dollars over his tenure.[2] Brown later said he made a mistake in over promising with his 100-Day Plan.[22]
Brown helped mediate a settlement to the 1997 BART strike.[22]
During his first term as mayor, Brown quietly favored the demolition and abolition of the Transbay Terminal[36] to accommodate the redevelopment of the site for market-rate housing. Centrally located at First and Mission Streets near the Financial District and South Beach, the terminal originally served as the San Francisco terminus for the electric commuter trains of the East Bay Electric Lines, the Key System of streetcars and the Sacramento Northern railroads which ran on the lower deck of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge. Following the termination of streetcar service in 1958, the terminal has seen continuous service as a major bus facility for East Bay commuters; AC Transit buses transport riders from the terminal directly into neighborhoods throughout the inner East Bay. The terminal also serves passengers traveling to San Mateo County and the North Bay aboard SamTrans and Golden Gate Transit buses respectively, and to tourists arriving by bus motorcoach. Today, the terminal is being planned for redevelopment as a region wide mass transit hub maintaining the current bus services, but with a new tunnel that would extend the Caltrain commuter rail line from its current terminus at Fourth and Townsend Streets to the site. Once completed, Caltrain riders would no longer need to transfer to Muni in order to reach the downtown financial district. Additionally, the heavy rail portion of the terminal would be designed to accommodate the planned High Speed Rail lines to Los Angeles.
In 1998, The Berkeley, California-based Bicycle Civil Liberties Union, produced a two hour documentary film in the muckraker journalism tradition, "July 25th: The Secret is Out," which gives evidence of Brown's designs for the Transbay Terminal site.
[edit]Critical Mass
Since 1992, cyclists riding in San Francisco's monthly Critical Mass bicycle rides had used the "corking" technique at street intersections to block rush-hour cross-traffic.[37][38][39][40] In 1997, Brown approved San Francisco Police Department Chief Fred Lau's plan to conduct a crackdown on the rides,[41] calling them "a terrible demonstration of intolerance".[42] and "an incredible display of arrogance."[43] Brown said after arrests were made when a Critical Mass event became violent "I think we ought to confiscate their bicycles"[44] and that "a little jail time" would teach Critical Mass riders a lesson.[45] On the night of the July 25, 1997 ride 115 riders were arrested for unlawful assembly, jailed, and had their bicycles confiscated by the police.[46][47] By 2002, Brown and the city's relations with Critical Mass had changed. On the 10th anniversary of Critical Mass on September 27, 2002, the city officially closed down four blocks to automobile traffic for the annual Car-Free Day Street Fair. Brown remarked concerning the event: "I'm delighted. A new tradition has been born in our city."[48]
[edit]Urban planning and development
As San Francisco mayor, Brown was criticized for aggregating power, and for favoring certain business interests at the expense of the city as a whole. Supporters point to the many development projects completed or planned under his watch, including the restoration of City Hall and historic waterfront buildings; the setting in motion of one of the city's largest ever mixed use development projects in Mission Bay, and the development of a second campus for the University of California, San Francisco. In contrast, critics objected to the construction of many live-work loft buildings in formerly working-class neighborhoods that they believed lead to gentrification and displacement of residents and light industry

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HammondCast 18 Jon's Journal December 7 2012

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HammondCast 18 from NYC tells the story of how Jon Hammond originally met Joe Berger (of Ham-Berger-Friz Records) and then plays a recording of one of the first jam sessions from year 1986 in BackBeat Productions' Studios in the Music Building in New York-251 W. 30th St., from a previous phoner with Pete Fallico.
From there we go in to the studio with Chris Cortez and tell some interesting stories going all the way back to 1957 when Jon came out to Berkeley California from Chicago on the California Zephyr and somehow ended up in Boston's Combat Zone playing Hammond organ nightly for the burlesque shows in the World Famous 2 o'clock Lounge! From there he tells the true story about "Late Rent" Jon's theme song which was paid for with the rent money!
Jon Hammond is an ASCAP Composer/Publisher and member of Local 802 & Local 6 Musicians Union. Special thanks to KYOU Radio, 1550 on the AM dial in San Francisco California!

Happy Birthday Todd Anderson tenor saxophonist composer/arranger - Dec. 6th - here at The Bitter End on
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Jon Hammond Band playing Jon's composition Late Rent the theme song of his long-running cable TV show The Jon Hammond Show live at The Bitter End club in Greenwich Village New York. Special late show with some...See More
— with Todd Anderson at The Bitter End


Joe Berger and Bernard Purdie at Local 802 Musicians Union - happy birthday to Joe Berger Dec. 7th! photo - Jon Hammond



— with Joe Berger, Louis Armstrong, Bernard Purdie and Bernard Purdie at Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM

Dave Brubeck R.I.P. - pictured here at 2004 IAJE jazz educators conference,



Dave was an NEA Jazz Master Award Recipient among many other honors
*for more photos
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Wonderful musician and human being - JH
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from top:
George Russell, Nat Hentoff, Dave Brubeck

David Baker, Percy Heath, Dr. Billy Taylor

Chico Hamilton, Jim Hall, James Moody,

Randy Weston, Ron Carter, Jackie McLean, Gerald Wilson, Jimmy Heath

*Hank Jones, *Horace Silver, Anita O'Day

*Benny Golson, Frank Foster, Cecil Taylor, Roy Haynes, Clark Terry, Louie Bellson, Dana Gioia

*in Art Kane's photo "Great Day in Harlem"
on the occasion of NEA Jazz Masters Luncheon
— with Dave Brubeck

Bernard Pretty Purdie, Jon Hammond, Jerry Jemmott backstage at Hair Show

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Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Jon Hammond, Jerry Jemmott backstage at Hair Show L to R: Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Jon Hammond, Jerry Jemmott aka Gerald "Fingers" Jemmott backstage at Hair Show at the Al Hirschfeld Theater on Broadway NYC. Bernard and Jerry have played together on numerous Atlantic Records recording sessions, most notably on Aretha Franklin's "Aretha Live at Fillmore West" March 1971. Jon Hammond was at the show and so was Danny Glover, they speak together about it on Jon's radio program HammondCast on KYOU Radio: http://www.jonhammondband.com/music-96.html HammondCast 81 KYCY and KYOU 1550AM, a Special Visit with DANNY GLOVER! Hear Danny speak with Jon Hammond about his projects and growing up and living in San Francisco his entire life throughout his International traveling and super-successful career, he has always had a great love for SF Bay Area. Deeply involved in music and international social causes, Danny speaks about Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, John Coltrane, Aretha and many more. Music: ARETHA FRANKLIN (Live at Fillmore) "Reach Out And Touch", LOUIS ARMSTRONG "What A Wonderful World", JOHN COLTRANE "My Favorite Things" and JON HAMMOND "Six Year Itch" KYOU MEDIATANK Bernard Purdie is playing the music of composer Galt MacDermot on HAIR nightly. Bernard's drums on the set of HAIR, photo by Jon Hammond: Uptempo LATE RENT Lift Off! 1989 Mikell's NYC as seen on The Jon Hammond Show TV Show http://ia331304.us.archive.org/2/items/JonHammondUptempoLATERENTLiftOff1989MikellsTVJONHAMMONDCombo/Uptempo_LATE_RENT_Lift_Off_1989_Mikells_TV_512kb.mp4 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8937355388613228955&ei=FxLsSreCIoODlgenn_DiDQ&q=late+rent+lift+off#


2 Hats Talking - Bernard Purdie and Jon Hammond at Local 802 *notice Purdie's 'Love Beads' - he went directly from there over to the Al Hirschfeld Theater to play the HAIR Show *here backstage with Jerry Jemmott, Jon & Bernard



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Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Jon Hammond, Jerry Jemmott backstage at Hair Show L to R: Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Jon Hammond, Jerry
Jemmott aka Gerald "Fingers" Jemmott backstage at Hair Show at the Al Hirschfeld Theater on Broadway NYC. Bernard and Jerry have played together on numerous Atlantic Records recording sessions, most notably on Aretha Franklin's "Aretha Live at Fillmore West" March 1971. Jon Hammond was at the show and so was Danny Glover, they speak together about it on Jon's radio program HammondCast on KYOU Radio...

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Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Jon Hammond, Jerry Jemmott backstage at Hair Show L to R: Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Jon Hammond, Jerry..

Bernard Purdie Christmas Look



- Local 802 annual Holiday Party
*Note: I'm going to be playing an early bird set at 802 next
Monday night 10/12 with Rudy Lawless drums and a special guest coming in on alto, c'mon down 6-7, the singers start hitting around 7 - JH — at Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM

Yusuke Nishimura

Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Massimo Manzi

Liceo classico alatri(fr)

Daniel Krasow

Works at Apple Inc.

Mike Barnett

Suny College at Old Westbury

Michelle' V. Frasche

Roey Shamir

Owner-Operator at Area 51 NYC

Jeff Guilford

Birmingham Conservatoire

Luna Figliè
Ray Hale

Dallas, Texas

Jay Okubo

Jazz Buyer (Sales/Promotion Dept.) at Tower Records

Conrad Zucchelli
Russell A. Worrell

Jamaica High School

Rich Jenkins

Temple University

Derneill L. Washington

City Honors School

Chris Foster

Land O' Lakes, Florida

Robert Elam

Engineering dept boiler opertator at Now work at eastern state hospital lex ky

Richard Blake

Dallas, Texas

Fred Taylor

Worked nationwde as drummer/percussionist/arranger/producer/audio engineer at Self-employed drummer, composer, producer.

Neil Levine

Jersey City, New Jersey

Nicky Gebhard

Mönchengladbach, Germany

Robert McCracken

Operations Manager at Immedia LLP

Rainey Kato

Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Robbie Furlong

Holland Park High School

Durk Dunham

Director of Emergency Management at Calhoun County Sheriff's Office

Bobby Cattrano

State University of New York at Farmingdale

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Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee

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Dean Kurtz

Fullerton College

Eddie Bimonte

Owner at Eddie's Pet Service

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The Messeturm building in Frankfurt - as seen from a high floor in Marriott Hotel on a cold winter day - Jon Hammond



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messeturm
The Messeturm (English: Trade Fair Tower) is a 63-storey, 257 m (843 ft) skyscraper in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is the second tallest building in Frankfurt am Main, the second tallest building in Germany and th
e third tallest building in the European Union. It had been the tallest building in Europe from its completion in 1991 until 1997 when it was surpassed by the Commerzbank Tower, which is also located in Frankfurt.
The Messeturm is directly located near the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds. Helmut Jahn designed the Messeturm in a Postmodern architectural style. Despite its name, the Messeturm is not used for trade fair exhibitions but as an office building.
The Messeturm is similar in design to towers by other architects including the Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia and Key Tower (1991) in Cleveland, Ohio. Frankfurters often call it Bleistift ("pencil") due to its shape. The construction of the building's foundation set a world record for the longest continuous concrete pour. Ninety trucks poured concrete for 78 hours into the 6-metre (20 ft) deep foundation. Its ground floor area is just 1,681 m2 (18,090 sq ft), and features a 36.3 m (119.1 ft) pyramid at the top.
The tower uses numerous geometric shapes in its design such as the square footprint which is the main shape used throughout the tower. It then rises to a cylindrical shape which finally completes in a pyramid.
It is one of the few buildings in Germany with their own postal code (60308), the others being Opernturm, another Frankfurt skyscraper, and the summit station on Zugspitze.
There are 900 parking places in a public parking garage and a direct connection to the subway.
The building also appears in the European tileset for the game SimCity 4, and a similar-looking building appears in SimCity 3000.
Type Commercial offices
Location Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
Coordinates 50°06′44″N 8°39′10″ECoordinates: 50°06′44″N 8°39′10″E
Construction started 13 July 1988
Opening October 1990
Cost DM500 million
Height
Roof 257 m (843 ft)
Top floor 228 m (748 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 63
2 below ground
Floor area 61,711 m2 (664,300 sq ft)
Design and construction
Owner Tishman Speyer Properties
Architect Helmut Jahn
Richard Murphy
Developer Tishman Speyer Properties
CitiBank
Structural engineer Ingenieurbüro Fritz Nötzold
Main contractor HOCHTIEF AG
— at Messeturm

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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



*Special Thanks: FAINA COBHAM *Official Site: http://www.HammondCast.com *STORY: http://community.webtv.net/GoldenPenMan/BLUESINTHEMOSCOW

Dave Brubeck, NEA Jazz Master, Chris Cortez, WBGO, KYOU Radio, Bernard Purdie, Messeturm, Blues, Funky music, Joe Berger, Happy Birthday, Local 802, Musicians Union

Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2012

HammondCast 43 Jon's Journal December 5 2012

*LISTEN TO THE AUDIO HERE: HammondCast 43

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Jon Hammond Trio Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco June 4, 1999



HammondCast 43
HammondCast 43 for KYCY/KYOU 1550 AM, broadcasting today from Emeryville CA by Pixar Studios. Music from a 1999 concert in Kuumbwa Jazz Center to a full house, it was broadcasted on Pete Fallico's show on KUSP-Santa Cruz CA. JON HAMMOND Trio playing "James and Wess" and "Have YOU Met Miss Jones". From NDR SESSIONS: "I Remember YOU". From Fillmore Concert June 4, 1999 on the bill with Sons of Champlin, Jon's trio doing "Hip Hop Chitlins" (it only took me 35 years to get this gig!). Al Jazzbeaux Collins as "Sonny Cool" interviewed by Steve Allen from Jon's Archives.
http://www.HammondCast.com

*WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Bernard Purdie Dedication to his Kids Late Rent Closer at Mikell's

http://archive.org/details/BernardPurdieDedicationToHisKidsLateRentCloserAtMikells

Youtube: http://youtu.be/B5qGwUgEyvM

New York NY -- Flashback to August 1989 - Studio drummer Bernard Purdie takes the microphone on last set at Mikell's with Jon Hammond and The Late Rent Session Men band to dedicate the performance to his children Phyllis and Anthony. Theme song for the long-running cable TV program The Jon Hammond Show "Late Rent" original composition with
Jon Hammond at his 1959 B3 organ
Bernard Purdie drums
Chuggy Carter percussion
Alex Foster alto saxophone
Barry Finnerty guitar
*Note: This historic clip is photographic proof that the actual location of Mikell's was 760 Columbus Avenue at 97th and not 808 Columbus as the current Whole Foods near the old location claims, highly interesting!
This is some of the rare surviving footage from Mikell's, in the house that night all night long was Hugh Masekela, Cornell Dupree and many musicians as Mikell's was the traditional hang for all New York Studio Musicians until it's closing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikell's
As seen on The Jon Hammond Show cable TV program now in 28th year
Camera: Joe Berger
http://www.HammondCast.com





Blip TV http://blip.tv/jon-hammond/bernard-purdie-dedication-to-his-kids-late-rent-closer-at-mikell-s-6350855







Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/49363343

Bernard Purdie Dedication to his Kids Late Rent Closer at Mikell's from Jon Hammond on Vimeo.


Mikell's NYC 1989 Ballad One and Only Love Jon Hammond Alex Foster Bernard Purdie Chuggy Carter

*WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Mikell's NYC 1989 Ballad One and Only Love Jon Hammond Alex Foster Bernard Purdie Chuggy Carter

http://archive.org/details/MikellsNyc1989BalladOneAndOnlyLoveJonHammondAlexFosterBernard

Youtube http://youtu.be/fm831FDztTs

August 28, 1989 Jon Hammond at the B3 organ with Alex Foster tenor sax, Bernard Purdie drums and Chuggy
Carter percussion playing ballad My One and Only Love. Mikell's was a very popular night spot for studio musicians
and jazz hipsters, located at 760 Columbus Avenue New York City on the corner of 97th St.
http://www.HammondCast.com
Camera: Joe Berger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikell%27s
You can actually see Pat Mikell coming through the door to back room on the first 2 images.
Mikell's was a jazz club on the corner of 97th Street and Columbus Avenue, New York.
Run by Mike Mikell 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.Paul Shaffer, bandleader for CBS's Late Show with David Letterman, called Mikell's "soul heaven".
In 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),Paquito D'Rivera (January 1984).
Mikell's closed in 1991

Mikell's ballad b3 organ jon hammond bernard purdie drums alex foster saxophone studio musicians local 802



Vimeo http://vimeo.com/49496463

Mikell's NYC 1989 Ballad One and Only Love Jon Hammond Alex Foster Bernard Purdie Chuggy Carter from Jon Hammond on Vimeo.

Blip TV http://blip.tv/jon-hammond/mikell-s-nyc-1989-ballad-one-and-only-love-jon-hammond-alex-foster-bernard-purdie-chuggy-carter-6354476





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Montag, 3. Dezember 2012

Suzuki Headquarters Concert in Hamamatsu Jon's Journal December 3 2012

*WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Suzuki Headquarters Concert in Hamamatsu

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Jon played a special concert there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0f_cH1U5jc
Mercy Mercy played by Suzuki Artists Koei Tanaka and Jon Hammond for President Founder Manji Suzuki and Company in Suzuki Hall at Suzuki World Headquarters in Hamamatsu Japan. 2 camera shoot by S. Ohtaka and Jennifer
Master of Ceremonies Waichiro 'Tachi' Tachikawa, Jon Hammond at the new B3mk2 organ and wooden model 3300 high power Leslie Speaker, Koei Tanaka Suzuki harmonica
*Special Note: Sincerest condolences to Mr. Suzuki and all Suzuki Team on the recent passing of Mrs. Suzuki - Jon Hammond — with Koki Tanaka in Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka



On the bench of the incredible New B3mk2 with President Founder of Suzuki and Hammond Suzuki - Manji Suzuki, Jon Hammond and Suzuki Harmonica star Koei Tanaka in Suzuki Hall at the factory in Hamamatsu Japan

*WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: The Jon Hammond Show Sk1 Debut MNN TV

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The Jon Hammond Show Sk1 MNN TV World Debut of the new stage keyboard organ from Hammond Suzuki world's first road test with Jon Hammond Band in Germany during the International Musikmesse Frankfurt. Jon's annual Musikmesse-Session celebrating 25 consecutive years with live concert in Jazzkeller Hofheim.
Jon Hammond - Sk1 Hammond organ
Joe Berger - guitar
Giovanni Gulino - drums
Peter Klohmann - tenor saxophone
as seen on Jon's long-running cable TV program The Jon Hammond Show on MNN TV in New York City 28th year HammondCast.com

The inside of my 1965 Hammond B3 organ - you can see the top secret black mod box built for me by Bill Beer (R.I.P.) of Keyboard Products Los Angeles California



- it's got Bill's telephone number right on it: 213-387-2205 Unfortunately can't reach Bill on that number any longer, Jon Hammond

Chuck Plaisance
Vocal Instructer, Vocal Producer, Session Vocalist, Performing Musician at Voice Coach & Pro-Singer

Jonathan Ayers
Creative at Apple Inc.

Orhan Sandikci
Musik club Indra at Ich bin selbständig- ich arbeite selbst und ständig

Chris Grove
Works at Keyboards-Eddie Money

Nino De Luca
Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali "G.B.Pergolesi" - AFAM Ancona

Michael Grazioso
Tunxis community college

Henry Zambrano R
Genova, Italy

Mike Barnett
Suny College at Old Westbury

Yoichiro Hamahara
代表取締役 at 株式会社エス・ディ・アイ

Martin Chemes
Músico profesional y Endorser at Lee Oskar Harmonicas

Hans Torbijn
Sint Paulus Mulo Vlissingen

Maurizio Li Mandri

My 1965 Hammond B3 organ with special mods by Bill Beer (R.I.P.) of Keyboard Products



- Jon Hammond
Youtube http://youtu.be/V98fwDJSHWw
Presented by City Hall San Francisco & Local 6: JON HAMMOND Band on front lawn of the beautiful SF City Hall during lunch hour free concert. JON HAMMOND at the B3 Organ along with Harvey Wainapel tenor, Steve Campos flugel horn, Barry Finnerty gtr. & James Preston drms. of Sons of Champlin band playing JH Band original "Nu Funk" (Hip Hop Chitlins). *Note: Jon's organ bench fell out of the truck on Polk St. (was recovered) One of Jon's famous sayings: "It's easier to find an Organ with no Bench than a Bench without an Organ"!

Encore! Jon Hammond Band in Jazzkeller Hofheim
L to R: Heinz Lichius, Joe Berger, Rainer Heute, Jon Hammond



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GuPD0IctNc
Zugabe
http://www.jonhammondband.com/ — with Jon Hammond Band, Joe Berger and Jon Hammond Organ Group at Jazzkeller Hofheim

Local 802 Musicians Union Monday Night Jazz Jam Session - Jon Hammond
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150423101712102&set=a.61160682101



Pic with main man Rudy Sheriff Lawless (yes that's really his name) Rudy is without a doubt the most dynamic drummer I have ever played with...and he is a shining beacon of inspiration always! at Local 802 Musicians Union Monday Night Jazz Jam Session - Jon Hammond

While walking down Sixth Ave. by Radio City Music Hall the other day, I heard one giant Muppet person tell another giant Muppet person "This sure is a hell of a way to make a living!"



- Jon Hammond — at Radio City Music Hall

Groovin' at the pad at my 1959 Hammond B3 organ and super nuclear powered Leslie Speaker where I always wear a jacket and tie - in between banquets



- Jon Hammond *Revox A700 deck, recorded many sessions on and first break out hit for radio on WNEW AM 1130 Al Jazzbo Collins Purple Grotteaux Show

John J. Cooper on the graveyard shift in WBGO Library digging out some cool sides



- Jon Hammond
http://www.wbgo.org/
Newark Public Radio, Inc.
54 Park Place
Newark, NJ 07102 — with John J. Cooper at WBGO Jazz 88.3

Mitch Weisenstein
Easton, Pennsylvania

Heather Jeremy
Works at Film Forum

Maura Fitzgerald-Ferrano

Patrick Cooper

Nick Rosal

Scott Cantor

Main Men Pasquale Ficocecco and Carlo Greco at Alex Music on 48th Street Music Row NYC



- Jon Hammond — at Alex Musical Instruments

Hamburg Germany -- Jon Hammond Band gig in Auster Bar
Youtube http://youtu.be/4ZLDW5E7k8c
L to R Heinz Lichius, Joe Berger, Jon Hammond, Michael Leuschner, Jonas Schoen



— with Joe Berger, Michael Leuschner and Jonas Schoen at Auster Bar

Jon Hammond Band playing Jon's composition Late Rent
Jon Hammond Band L to R: Ray Grappone, Joe Berger, Todd Anderson, Jon Hammond
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151169238317102&set=a.61160682101.82732.558692101
at The Bitter End on Bleecker St.
in the Village - Youtube http://youtu.be/sEKdzmlhvXI



Jon Hammond Band playing Jon's composition Late Rent the theme song of his long-running cable TV show The Jon Hammond Show live at The Bitter End club in Greenwich Village New York. Special late show with some of the origina...See More — with Jon Hammond Organ Group and Jon Hammond Band at The Bitter End

Jon Hammond - Speed Runner!

*WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Jon Hammond Breaks Land Speed Record As Seen on Cable TV

http://archive.org/details/JonHammondBreaksLandSpeedRecordAsSeenOnCableTv



http://vimeo.com/33948262

Jon Hammond - Speed Runner!

"Late Rent" recorded 1983 in Intergalactic Recording Studios where John Lennon did his last recordings. Enjoy!

speed runner, bill beer, keyboard products, 1965 B3 organ, Sk1 ultra compact, suzuki hamamatsu, jon hammond, jazz, blues, koei tanaka, harmonica, local 802, musicians
union

Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2012

Indigo Blues Club Gig Jon's Journal December 2 2012

*WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Indigo Blues Club Gig

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Kickin' it off in the basement of Hotel Edison on W.46th Street (Indigo Blues Club) with Jack Wilkins, Alex Foster and Bernard Purdie - Jon Hammond and Bernard Purdie taking you back to year 1989, enjoy! Jon

Youtube http://youtu.be/sSP3k6XVYwE

As seen on the long-running NYC cable TV show The Jon Hammond Show -
Jon Hammond and The Late Rent Session Men December 12, 1989
In Indigo Blues Club which was partly owned by Miles Davis at the time.
Downstairs in The Hotel Edison 221 West 46th Street New York City
Here on Jon's band kicking it off are
Alex Foster tenor saxophone
Jack Wilkins guitar
Bernard Purdie drums
Jon Hammond at the B3 Organ
Camera by Joe Berger



The man with the plan...Neoplan (Bus)!
Jon Hammond



Jon Hammond wearing DuckDuckGo T-Shirt from Gabriel Weinberg - Frankfurt Germany

Downtown Chicago -- Jon Hammond walking around in birthplace Chicago IL - Chicago's lookin' good!



— at Downtown Chicago

2012 Frankfurt Musikmesse -- L to R: Joe Berger, Jon Hammond, Malc Deakin



— with Joe Berger and Malc Deakin at Musikmesse Frankfurt

Mary Ellen O'Neil Davis
UCC, Cranford NJ

Nathalie L. Brochard
Inhaberin at EuroBiz Communication Institute

Greg Christopher
Teaneck High School

Clifford Schwartz
Works at NuMuBu.com

Chris Grove
Works at Keyboards-Eddie Money

Chris Foster
Land O' Lakes, Florida

Jeffrey Campbell
North Syracuse High School

Bob Albanese
CEO & Founder at B.A.M. Bob Albanese Music

Shiou Funayama
Boston University

Fred Taylor
Worked nationwde as drummer/percussionist/arranger/producer/audio engineer at Self-employed drummer, composer, producer.

Mario J. Medious II
Queens College, City University of New York

Joanne Ruocco

Steven DeLano Adamson
Los Angeles, California

Janice Harrington
Ambassador of Authentic American Music at All over the world

Nick Bukuvalas
Singer/Songwriter/Musician at Nick Bukuvalas

Shane McCauley
Drummer/Singer/Producer at www.in-houserecording .com at Musician

Tore Pettersen
Øksnes

Bart Spits
Works at Diverse Muziek

Kenneth H Johnson Sr
Portland State University

Daniel Cordaro
LBCC Cypress

Poncho Dee
Booking Mgr. at Total Entertainment Group

Bill Zanni

Lloyd Munroe III

Jennifer Beaulac Kinder
Freelance at Writer

Eddie Bimonte
Owner at Eddie's Pet Service

Frank Derrick
Works at Palm Beach Pops

Masahiko Kuzuha
Keio University (慶應義塾大学)

Larry Blumenstein
Valley Stream, New York

Robbie Furlong
Holland Park High School

Ed Beatty

Lisa Henry

Laura Soden
Summit, New Jersey

Michael Grammar
Houston, Texas

David Watkins
Wellington, New Zealand

Thad Bunkiewicz
Drums Percussion at Musician

Bruno Batderock
Lycée St Aspais

Keith Anderson
Saint Charles, Illinois

Gene Kelly
Co Owner at Kelly's Gingernut Pub

Rainey Kato
Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ray Hale
Dallas, Texas

Joe Berger, Bernard Purdie, Jon Hammond - Roseland Ballroom 90th Birthday Bash of Local 802 Musicians Union
Congratulations Pete Seeger Honoree at Local 802 90th Birthday Gala Bash Photos by Jon Hammond
http://www.livinginhd.com/hammondcast/blog/2011/12/28/congratulations_pete_seeger_honoree_at_local_802_90th_birthday_gala_bash_photos_by_jon_hammond



— with Joe Berger and Bernard Purdie at Roseland Ballroom

Jon Hammond Band L to R: Ray Grappone, Joe Berger, Todd Anderson, Jon Hammond at The Bitter End on Bleecker St.
in the Village - Youtube http://youtu.be/sEKdzmlhvXI
Jon Hammond Band playing Jon's composition Late Rent the theme song of his long-running cable TV show The Jon Hammond Show live at The Bitter End club in Greenwich Village New York.



Special late show with some of the original musicians...See More — with Joe Berger and Todd Anderson at The Bitter End

Blue Angels 2012 Fleet Week Air Show at SFO with Music from Jon Hammond Band

Youtube http://youtu.be/2C3KtLtMVm8





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

Calm before the storm



- it's raining like crazy here in SF Bay Area this weekend folks, Jon Hammond

My 1940 RCA Victor 5 Tube table top radio rocks!
Model 45X1 Standard Broadcast AM radio is known for many years as "Little Nipper" (for the RCA Victor Dog)



rockin'! Tuned to CBS News, Jon Hammond

Narada Michael Walden
President at Tarpan Studios

Yashko Golembiovsky
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (ACA)

Josh Oh
Frenchie at H.A.M. Industries subsidiary of F.M.U

Jonathan Ayers
Creative at Apple Inc.

Jimmy Lyon
Chabot College

Rand Stadtman Dude, I have one of those, too!
23 hours ago ·

Jon Hammond Totally rockin' Rand! Great you have one also, amazing how much sound it puts out - way ahead of it's time. I wish it had an input, I could almost use this as an instrument amp, Jon
23 hours ago ·

Rand Stadtman Could set that up for you, but there is a lot of shock risk.
23 hours ago ·

Jon Hammond I still have a '65 Band-Master Rand, makes intermittent bacon frying sound but I still dig playing through it at home - on the gig I use a solid-state Ampeg bass amp head and Bag End 15" speaker with coaxial horn, Jon

Oakland California -- Axel Geddes and The Schnittmeister Band with 6 piece horn section last night at "From Oakland with Love. A Sonic benefit for Hurricane Sandy Relief"
The Uptown Nightclub 1928 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, California - Jon Hammond
*Note: All proceeds went to the American Red Cross in an effort to help those affected by the destruction of Hurricane Sandy.
Featuring Musicians and DJs from Pixar Animation Studios.
Raffle Prizes! Belly Dancers! Rock and Roll! Booty Shaking Dance Party!



— with Axel Geddes at The Uptown Nightclub

Daniel Rogue
Le Lude, Pays De La Loire, France

Jeff Whittle
Pixar

Marcia Gwendolyn Jones
Stanford University

Andy Boretto
Apple

Margot Hay Leidy

Kristian Richards

Friend Request Sent
Colin Bohrer
Works at Disney Pixar

Massimo Casati

Ana Smith

Miyuki Tanaka
Works at Cordflavor music 主宰

Page O'Dare

Margaret Lily Andres

John Geralis

Renee Steen
Co-Owner and Co-Founder at Pie - Seattle Center

Hans Torbijn
Sint Paulus Mulo Vlissingen

Friend Request Sent
Charity Vargas

Jon's Journal Dec. 1 2012
http://jonhammond.posterous.com/hammondcast-10-jons-journal-december-1-2012

*LISTEN TO THE AUDIO HERE: HammondCast 10 Downloaded 1,137 times http://archive.org/details/HammondCast_10
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Folks http://www.KYOURADIO.org/ now online, streaming worldwide - Jon Hammond

Jon Hammond with his current touring organ, the ultra-compact Hammond Sk1, check it out on Youtube http://youtu.be/sEKdzmlhvXI



Jon Hammond updated his profile picture

Agnieszka Obrebska
Works at P. Mauriat Musical Instruments

Erzsi Bagdi
Works at Itthoni és külföldi színpadok

Yusuke Asakura
中央工学校

Masato Tomie
Works at Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation

Anthony Cuscina
Works at Eternal Percussion

Gabrielle Carlucci
Nursing Facility and Office Volunteer at Hospice of Lancaster County

Michael D Hinton
The COLLEGE of MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE

Josh Lief
Syracuse University

Yashko Golembiovsky
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (ACA)

Waichiro Tachikawa
Works at Suzuki Musical Inst. Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Miho Nagai

Yoichiro Hamahara
代表取締役 at 株式会社エス・ディ・アイ

Jon Hammond Band playing Jon's composition Late Rent the theme song of his long-running cable TV show The Jon Hammond Show live at The Bitter End club in Greenwich Village New York. Special late show with some of the original musicians from the recording which happened in 1983 in Intergalactic Studios the same studio where John Lennon did his last recordings. On tenor saxophone Todd Anderson who was Jon's Arranging and Composition teacher in 1973 at Berklee College of Music, Ray Grappone drums who played on the Sidewinder track from Late Rent album first release as heard on WNEW AM 1130 Al Jazzbo Collins radio program, Joe Berger guitar, long-time co-producer engineer guitarist and Jon Hammond playing the incredible New Hammond Sk1 organ designed by Jon's friends at Suzuki Musical Instruments in Hamamatsu Japan. Swinging Funky Jazz and Blues. All 4 members of The Jon Hammond Band are members of Local 802 Musicians Union American Federation of Musicians New York City... — at NAMM Anaheim Convention Center

Midi Accordion Jon Hammond *Note: Guitarist HERB ELLIS was sitting next to bandstand in front during Frankfurt Musikmesse. Jon Hammond plays Excelsior Accordions & Hammond Organs
http://www.myspace.com/jonhammondshow/videos/midi-accordion-jon-hammond-blues-band-jazzkeller-frankfurt-1992/6522954

Dick Contino Interview with Jon Hammond HammondCast





23:49 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x71o6u_dick-contino-on-hammondcast_people
Dick Contino world-famous Accordionist and star of screen, stage and TV on Jon Hammond's HammondCast Show for KYOURADIO.. Dick Contino was on The Ed Sullivan Show 48 times and toured USSR with Mr. Sullivan. He introduced "Lady of Spain" in 1947 winning the Horace Heidt Philip Morris talent contest. Starred in cult movie Daddy-O and other films and continues to perform as featured performer worldwide, based in Las Vegas... — with Dick Contino at Fairmont San Francisco.

Axel Geddes pulls a winning raffle ticket last night at "From Oakland with Love. A Sonic benefit for Hurricane Sandy Relief"



The Uptown Nightclub 1928 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, California - Jon Hammond
*Note: All proceeds went to the American Red Cross in an effort to help those affected by the destruction of Hurricane Sandy.
Featuring Musicians and DJs from Pixar Animation Studios

Hal Pearlman and Axel Geddes aka The Clap Band - onstage performing "This Is My Notebook" (not your notebook)
introduced by Jon Hammond Band *Note: Axel left the famous notebook on my organ, I noticed it and managed to catch them with an announcement just as Clap Band were leaving the house - after all it's not my notebook, it's Axel's notebook!



Youtube http://youtu.be/t058BqUQXBA
Historic Live performance of CLAP BAND Hal Pearlman and Axel Geddes doing "This is My Notebook" - JH — with Hal Pearlman and Axel Geddes

First Band of the Evening last night: PixAir



Played: "Go to Sleep"
"1979"
"Glory Box"
"Middle of The Road"
"Dreams"
"Push It"
and wrapped up with a spirited cover of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"
excellent! - Jon Hammond
also good plugging "BUY RAFFLE TICKETS!" - JH — at The Uptown Nightclub

Tuning up the Black Les Paul for Xposition Set:



Crazy Train
The Ocean
Sweet Emotion
War Pigs
Next To You
Rock You Like a...
Any Way You...
photo by: Jon Hammond at "From Oakland with Love. A Sonic benefit for Hurricane Sandy Relief" gig The Uptown Nightclub
1928 Telegraph Ave, Oakland CA — at The Uptown Nightclub

Last night at "From Oakland with Love.




A Sonic benefit for Hurricane Sandy Relief"
The Uptown Nightclub 1928 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, California - Jon Hammond
*Note: All proceeds went to the American Red Cross in an effort to help those affected by the destruction of Hurricane Sandy.
Featuring Musicians and DJs from Pixar Animation Studios.
Raffle Prizes! Belly Dancers! Rock and Roll! Booty Shaking Dance Party! — at The Uptown Nightclub



Hurricane Sandy Relief, Pixar Animation Studios, Uptown Nightclub, Bernard Purdie, Indigo Blues, Jon Hammond, Sk1, Organ, B3, Jazz, Blues, Local 802, Musicians Union, KYOURADIO.org

Samstag, 1. Dezember 2012

HammondCast 10 Jon's Journal December 1 2012

*LISTEN TO THE AUDIO HERE: HammondCast 10

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http://archive.org/details/HammondCast_10



Original music from Jon Hammond Band and from an actual Live broadcast on AFN Network Europe Powerlite Show in Frankfurt Germany! Worldwide HammondCast http://www.HammondCast.com

Pocket Funk Bernard Purdie and Friends NAMM
2,845
http://youtu.be/afTagFhYOCo
Pocket Funk by Jon Hammond © JH INTL ASCAP


Paris France -- Grateful Dead front line, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh - 1981 - Jon Hammond
The Hippodrome, Paris, (10/17/81)



Set List:
Shakedown Street
New Minglewood Blues
Candyman
Me and My Uncle
Big River
Althea
Little Red Rooster
Brown Eyed Women
Looks Like Rain
Don't Ease Me In

Truckin'
Bird Song
Good Time Blues
Estimated Prophet
Eyes of the World
drums
Not Fade Away
Morning Dew
Around and Around
One More Saturday Night

U.S. Blues
— with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh at Auteuil Hippodrome

Jon Hammond




Solo piano at French Embassy NYC on very special designer Pleyel Piano - Jon Hammond *photo - Joe Berger — at French Embassy

Hamburg Germany -- Salvatore Martens aka PICO and Jon Hammond at Delphi Music Theater - musical show / 'schauspiel' about the life of Pico who was working at The Star Club with The Beatles, The Rattles, Jimi Hendrix, Little Richard, Lee Curtis and many more, it was a great show with original music by The Rattles - I played the after show with my band, many Star Club people would come to the show and for a while there was a Star Club stammtisch on Sundays



- *note: while pushing my organ to the gig one time, I got bit in the nuts by a German Shepard dog named 'Annie' - had to go to the hospital / krankenhaus - Uwe Petersen was on the gig that night and took me to the emergency room, thanks Uwe! - JH — with Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, The Everly Brothers, Little Richard and Screaming Lord Sutch

Berkeley California -- In Store at Rasputin Records on Telegraph Avenue with Alan Hall drums, Alex Budman (back to the camera) tenor sax, Jon Hammond organ


*special thanks Jennifer for the fine refreshments, including my favorite focaccia (pizza style) from the Liguria Bakery in SF North Beach, the best! - JH — with Alex Budman and Alan Hall at Rasputin Music

Dick Contino Interview with Jon Hammond HammondCast
23:49 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x71o6u_dick-contino-on-hammondcast_people



Dick Contino world-famous Accordionist and star of screen, stage and TV on Jon Hammond's HammondCast Show for KYOURADIO Dick Contino was on The Ed Sullivan Show 48 times and toured USSR with Mr. Sullivan. He introduced "Lady of Spain" in 1947 winning the Horace Heidt Philip Morris talent contest. Starred in cult movie Daddy-O and other films and continues to perform as featured performer worldwide, based in Las Vegas... — with Dick Contino at Fairmont San Francisco

San Francisco California -- Jon Hammond and Scott Rootenberg after a gig at Bruno's Lounge on Mission Street



- somebody absconded with the 1940's era Hammond CV organ I used to play there in photo - JH — with Scott Rootenberg at Bruno's SF

New York NY -- Jon Hammond hammer down at Le Bar Bat on West 57th Street



- release party gig for Hammond's Bolero CD - on the band that night were Ray Grappone drums, Joe Berger and Alex Budman tenor sax
http://www.amazon.com/Hammonds-Bolero-Jon-Hammond/dp/B000BX372E
This is Jon Hammond's inspired all-original trio album played with the intensity of a live performance. It features great saxophone work by Alex Budman and the sophisticated funky sound of Ronnie Smith, Jr. on drums. Accordion and guitar embellish several tracks, and the overall sound is very musical and unusual. Lots of powerful groove drives some really great Jon Hammond compositions such as "Soon I Will Be Free", "Cannonball 99 (One More Time!), "Six Year Itch", "Jennifer's Song" and "9/11 Tribute."
Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars — at Le Bar Bat

Jon Hammond flanked by Ken Cicerale and ASCAP's Fran Richard



*Ken was in ASCAP at the time, working closely with Fran - NYC, NY — with Ken Cicerale and Frances Richard

Ken Cicerale To quote the Bob Dylan song, "...Aah but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now".
Yesterday at 7:20am ·

Sherisse Rogers · Friends with Joel Frahm and 15 others
I remember this....wasn't this IAJE??...i think i was there with you guys or maybe this is when i met you guys for the first time...memories!!
Yesterday at 7:39am ·

Jon Hammond It was good to meet you there Sherisse! Thanks to Fran Richard, right on - hope to see you again in near future. Keep up the great work on the basso profundo and original arrangements, Jon
Yesterday at 7:41am ·

Sherisse Rogers · Friends with Joel Frahm and 15 others
Thank john. Likewise. Cheers
Yesterday at 7:44am ·

Eric Ross · Friends with Barry Melton and 11 others
nice photo, Fran best, E
Yesterday at 8:08am ·

Alexander Kouguell · Friends with Frances Richard
You look great! Would love to see you.All the best from us two.
Yesterday at 8:25am ·

Ken Cicerale Hi Sherisse,

Yeah, that was one of the IAJE conferences. I wish he'd just block out my face!

KEN CICERALE - alto saxophone - home
www.kencicerale.com
Ken Cicerale solo alto saxophone
Yesterday at 9:45am ·

Jon Hammond Looking good Ken! Jon

Derek Sivers creator of CD Baby and Jon Hammond, in fact Derek is CD Baby!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Sivers



Joe Berger
King at Self employed

Ludmila Stefanikova
Works at Musician

Henry Zambrano R
Genova, Italy


Narada Michael Walden
President at Tarpan Studios

Mike Barnett
Suny College at Old Westbury

Paul L. Wexler

Hans Torbijn
Sint Paulus Mulo Vlissingen

Derek Sivers (born September 22, 1969[1]) is best known for being the founder and former president of CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians.
A professional musician (and circus clown) since 1987, Derek started CD Baby by accident in 1998 when he was selling his own CD on his website, and friends asked if he could sell theirs, too. CD Baby went on to become the largest seller of independent music on the web, with over $100M in sales for over 150,000 musician clients.
After he won the 2003 World Technology Award, Esquire magazine's annual "Best and Brightest" cover story said, "Derek Sivers is changing the way music is bought and sold . . . one of the last music-business folk heroes."
In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby to focus on his new ventures to benefit musicians, including his new company, MuckWork, where teams of assistants help musicians do their "uncreative dirty work". His current projects and writings are all at sivers.org.
Derek is married to Sajitha, and they reside in Singapore.
CD Baby

Main article: CD Baby
Derek Sivers bequeathed his company to a charitable trust for music education, and had them sell it to Disk Makers. This agreement allows him to receive the minimum allowed by law for such agreement of 5% per year of the company's sale price (annually $1,100,000 pretax, based on a sale price of $22 million as reported by Sivers[2]) until death, while upon death the remainder if any will ultimately go into the trust. — with Derek Sivers and Derek Sivers

Dave Vumback from Goff Professional 'Dr. Dave' to the rescue - replacing my starter switch on my 1959 Hammond B3 organ - house call in Manhattan, thanks Dave! Jon Hammond http://www.goffprof.com/



Goff Organ Service is proud to be a 3rd generation New England family business. We've been working on Hammond Organs and Leslie Speakers since 1940, and nobody knows the instruments better than we do.

Mike Myers "The Love Guru" - big release in NYC, I played Hammond organ on the sound track for Paramount Pictures backing up the great vocalist / actress Telma Hopkins



- check it out, incredible movie - Jon Hammond — with Mike Myers

San Francisco CA -- Outdoor gig at Duboce Park - that's Lori Rodriguez on alto sax (Joe Rodriguez trumpet not seen), James Preston from Sons of Champlin band on drums -



I'm playing my 1965 Hammond B3 organ - Jon Hammond — with James Preston at Duboce Park -- San Francisco



San Francisco California -- Outdoor gig at Duboce Park, James Preston from Sons of Champlin band on drums, I'm playing my 1965 Hammond B3 organ - Jon Hammond — with James Preston at Duboce Park -- San Francisco

Milan Komnenic
Works at Radio Television of Serbia

Siegmar Grünberg
Dozent für Drums at Musikschule Schnelsen

Paul L. Wexler

Narada Michael Walden
President at Tarpan Studios


Pete Slauson
George Washington High School


Kei Hirata
Saga-shi, Saga, Japan


Hans Torbijn
Sint Paulus Mulo Vlissingen


Connie Bonner Mosley
Palo Alto High School

Paul L. Wexler I love the SOC.
Yesterday at 7:19am ·

Connie Bonner Mosley ·
Yes indeedy...
Yesterday at 8:27am ·

Kalena Preston ·
Good to hear this...so come to the SOC show on 12/7/12 at the Uptown Theater in Napa, CA. The best show of the holiday season
Yesterday at 3:34pm ·

Jon Hammond Hi Kalena, I'd like to make it but I'm going to be in Manhattan on 12/7 - have a great gig and big howdy to Jim! Jon

Skurrillum at Spielbudenplatz 24 on the Reeperbahn, I worked a late night gig there



- now it is the new location for Schmidts Tivoli / SCHMIDT THEATER. Spielbudenplatz 24-25 (Reeperbahn) - Jon Hammond — at Schmidt Theater

Rest In Peace Tenor Saxophone great Vince Wallace 1939 - 2012



- I ran in to Vince after many years, he was playing here at Trieste Caffe in Berkeley at the site of the old Longbranch Saloon. I played a New Years Eve gig years ago with Vince, in a trio with Terry Haggerty guitar, myself on organ and Vince burned it up on tenor with no drummer at The Cafe Claude over in San Francisco. Very sad to see Vince has passed - Jon Hammond
San Francisco and Oakland lost a jazz legend recently
http://www.bluoz.com/blog/index.php?%2Farchives%2F1582-Vince-Wallace-1939-2012.html
Vince Wallace's son does a great Youtube tribute to his dad
via email
A Memorial for tenor great Vince Wallace who died on October 2nd, will
be held next Saturday, November 10, 2012 at the Fruitvale Presbyterian
Church, located at 2735 MacArthur Blvd./corner of Coolidge Ave. in
Oakland. At 2 pm Vince's son, Bryan, will conduct a Buddhist service
upstairs in the Sanctuary, followed by a performance of VW's tunes with
Jennifer Clevinger and her Quintet; afterwards visiting musicians may
join a jam session. Dr. Kittams will provide drum set as well as bass.
Food and drink will also be available.

Looking forward celebrating Vince's life with his family and the Jazz
Community.

Heide
via Legacy.com
Vince Wallace Resident of Oakland, CA June 15, 1939 - Oct. 2, 2012 Jazz icon, tenor saxophonist/ composer For over five decades, Maestro Wallace has played a pivotal role on the Bay Area Jazz Scene. He leaves us with a rich musical legacy and will be long remembered for his soulful saxophone sound and his superb compositions which have become an integral part of the history of jazz. Mr. Wallace is deeply mourned by his sons Bryan and Cameron, daughter Mara and their families. He also will be sorely missed by his devoted companion, Heide Pilc, and his large extended family, the jazz community all over the globe. Memorial services are pending — with Vince Wallace at Caffe Trieste

The late great Dr. Billy Taylor and Jon Hammond
Billy wrote one of my favorite tunes in 1952 one year before I was born: "1952 "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" - inspired me to write one of my biggest hits:
"Get Back In The Groove" RIP Billy Taylor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Taylor



Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010[1][2]) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and since 1994, he was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.[3][4]
Taylor was a jazz activist. He sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America. In 1989, Billy Taylor, Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs started The Jazz Foundation to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians that survived Hurricane Katrina.[5]
Billy Taylor was also one of the foremost jazz educators. He lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Critic Leonard Feather once said, "It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz."
Taylor was born in Greenville, North Carolina but moved to Washington, D.C. when he was five. He grew up in a musical family and learned to play different instruments as a child, including guitar, drums and saxophone. But he was most successful at the piano and took classical piano lessons with Henry Grant, the same teacher that had educated Duke Ellington a generation earlier. He made his first professional appearance playing keyboard at the age of 13 and the compensation was one dollar.[6] Taylor attended Dunbar High School, America's first high school for African American students. He went to Virginia State College and majored in sociology. Pianist Dr. Undine Smith Moore noticed young Taylor's talent in piano and he changed his major to music, graduating with a degree in music in 1942.[6]
Taylor set out to New York City after graduation and started playing piano professionally from 1944, first with Ben Webster's Quartet on New York's 52nd Street. The same night he joined Webster's Quartet, he met Art Tatum, who became his mentor. Among other musicians he worked with, he played with Machito's mambo band, when he developed a love for Latin music. After an eight-month tour with the Don Redman Orchestra in Europe, Taylor stayed there with his wife Theodora and worked in Paris and Holland. Taylor returned to New York later that year and cooperated with Bob Wyatt and Sylvia Syms at the Royal Roost jazz club and Billie Holiday in a successful show called Holiday on Broadway. A year later, he became the house pianist at Birdland and performed with many of the greatest jazz talents in history, including Charlie Parker, J.J. Johnson, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.[6] He played at Birdland longer than any other pianist in the history of the club. In 1949, Taylor published his first book, a textbook about bebop piano styles.
[edit]Mid-career
He composed one of the his most famous tunes in 1952 "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free", and subsequently achieving more popularity with Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Nina Simone covered the song in her 1967 album Silk and Soul. It is widely known in the UK as a piano instrumental version, used for BBC Television's Film programme. Solomon Burke, Derek Trucks, The Lighthouse Family, Levon Helm and Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra have also recorded versions.
He continued dozens of the recordings in the 1950s and 1960s, notably the album he made with the Cuban percussionist Candido Camero titled Billy Taylor Trio with Candido, My Fair Lady Loves Jazz, Cross Section and Taylor Made Jazz.
His broadcast career also thrived. In 1961, Taylor founded New York's Jazzmobile, which provides arts education program of the highest quality via workshops, master classes, lecture demonstrations, arts enrichment programs, outdoor summer mobile concerts, special indoor concerts and special projects.[7] In 1958, he became the Musical Director of NBC's The Subject is Jazz, the first ever television series focusing on jazz. The 13-part series was produced by the new National Educational Television Network (NET) and hosted guests including Duke Elington, Aaron Copland, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Jimmy Rushing and Langston Hughes. He also worked as a DJ and program director on radio station WNEW in New York in the 1960s. During the 1960s, the Billy Taylor Trio was a regular feature of the Hickory House on West 55th street in Manhattan. From 1969 to 1972, Taylor served as the music director forThe David Frost Show and was the first African American to lead a talk show band. Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich were just a few of the jazz musicians who played on the show. In 1981, Jazzmobile produced a Jazz special for the National Public Radio, and for which the program received the Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting Programs. Jazzmobile's 1990 Tribute Concert to Dr. Taylor at Avery Fisher Hall, part of the JVC Jazz Festival, featured Nancy Wilson, Ahmad Jamal Trio and Terence Blanchard Quintet.
[edit]Later career
In 1981, after being profiled by CBS News Sunday Morning, he was hired as an on-air correspondent and then conducted more than 250 interviews with musicians. He received an Emmy Award for his segment on the multi-talented Quincy Jones.
In 1989, Taylor formed his own "Taylor Made" record label to document his own music. You Tempt Me (1996) is a strong outing by his 1985 trio (with Victor Gaskin and drummer Curtis Boyd) that includes a rendition of Duke Ellington's "Take the "A" Train". White Nights (1991) has Taylor, Gaskin, and drummer Bobby Thomas performing live from Leningrad in the Soviet Union, then came Solo (1992), and Jazzmobile Allstars (1992). In 1997, he received New York state governor's art award.
Taylor suffered from a 2002 stroke, which affected his right hand, but he continued to perform almost until his death. He died after a heart attack on December 28, 2010 in Manhattan, at age of 89. His legacy was honored in a Harlem memorial service on Jan.11, 2011, featuring performances by Taylor's final working trio, bassist Chip Jackson and drummer Winard Harper, along with longtime Taylor associates Jimmy Owens, Frank Wess, Geri Allen, Christian Sands and vocalist Cassandra Wilson. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Theodora Castion Taylor; a daughter, Kim Taylor-Thompson; and a granddaughter. His son, artist Duane Taylor, died in 1988.[8]
[edit]Legacy

Taylor appeared on hundreds of albums and composed more than 300 songs during his career spanned over six decades. His 1963 song, "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" dealt with civil rights issues and became the unofficial anthem of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. It was selected as "one of the greatest songs of the sixties" by the New York Times and was the theme music of the 1996 film "Ghosts of Mississippi". His 1967 instrumental recording of the tune is widely known in the United Kingdom as the opening theme music for the long-running TV series The Film Programme, for many years hosted by Barry Norman.
Engaging and educating more audience and young people had been a central part of Taylor's career. He holds the Wilbur D. Barrett Chair of Music at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is a Duke Ellington Fellow at Yale, and holds 23 honorary degrees. Besides publishing instructional books on jazz, he taught jazz course at Howard University, Long Island University, The Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he earned his Masters and Ph.D in 1975.
His extensive appearance in television series and jazz educational programs brought the music he loves to the masses at the grass roots level as well as more formal arenas. He's sometimes more known as a television personality than a pianist. He was quoted saying in a 2007 article in the Post Magazine: "there's no question that being an advocate eclipsed my reputation as a musician. It was my doing. I wanted to prove to people that jazz has an audience. I had to do that for me." [2]
[edit]Awards and honors

With over twenty-three honorary doctoral degrees, Taylor was also the recipient of two Peabody Awards for Jazzmobile, NEA Jazz Masters Award (1998) an Emmy Award (1983) for carrying out over 250 interviews for "CBS News Sunday Morning", a Grammy Award (2004)[9] and a host of prestigious and highly coveted prizes, such as the Down Beat magazine's Lifetime Achievement award (1984), National Medal of Arts (1992), and the Tiffany Award (1991). He was also honored in 2001 with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Jazz Living Legend Award,[10] and election to the Hall of Fame for the International Association for Jazz Education. He served as the artistic director for jazz at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where he developed many critically acclaimed concert series including the Louis Armstrong Legacy series, and the annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. In addition, he performed at the White House seven times and was one of only three jazz musicians to be appointed to the National Council of the Arts.
Taylor was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2010.
As leader
1945: Billy Taylor Piano (Savoy)
1953: Billy Taylor Trio (Prestige)
1953-54: Cross Section (Prestige) - released 1956 (includes all tracks from Billy Taylor Plays for DJs)
1954: The Billy Taylor Trio with Candido (Prestige)
1954: Billy Taylor Trio at Town Hall (Prestige)
1955: A Touch of Taylor (Prestige)
1956: Evergreens (ABC-Paramout)
1956: Billy Taylor at the London House (ABC-Paramount)[12]
1957: Introduces Ira Sullivan (ABC-Paramount)
1957: My Fair Lady Loves Jazz (Impulse!)
1957: The Billy Taylor Touch (Atlantic)
1959: The New Billy Taylor Trio (Argo)
1959: Custom Taylored (SeSac)
1959: One for Fun (Atlantic)
1959: Billy Taylor with Four Flutes (Riverside) - with Frank Wess, Herbie Mann and Jerome Richardson
1959: Taylor Made Jazz (Argo)
1960: Uptown (Riverside)
1960: Warming Up! (Riverside)
1961: Interlude (Moodsville)
1961: Kwamina (Mercury)
1962: Impromptu (Mercury)
1963: Right Here, Right Now (Capitol)
1965: Midnight Piano (Capitol)
1966: Easy Life (Surrey)
1968: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (Tower)
1969: A Sleeping Bee (Pausa MPS)
1970: Ok Billy (Bell)
1977: Jazz Live (Monmouth Evergreen)
1977: Live at Storyville (West 54 Records)
1981: With Joe Kennedy Where've You Been (Concord Jazz)
1985: You Tempt Me (Taylor-Made, 1989)
1988: White Nights And Jazz In Leningrad (Taylor-Made)
1989: Solo (Taylor-Made)
1989: Billy Taylor And The Jazzmobile All Stars (Taylor-Made)
1991: White Nights and Jazz in Leningrad (Taylor-Made)
1992: Dr. T with Gerry Mulligan (GRP)
1993: Live at MCG with Gerry Mulligan, Carl Allen, Chip Jackson
1993: It's a Matter of Pride (GRP)
1995: Homage (GRP)
1997: The Music Keeps Us Young (Arkadia Jazz)
1999: Ten Fingers - One Voice Arkadia Jazz
1999: Taylor Made at the Kennedy Center with Dee Dee Bridgewater Kennedy Center Jazz
2001: Urban Griot (Soundspot)
2002: Live at AJE New York (Soundspot)
[edit]As sideman
With Arkadia Jazz All Stars
Thank You, Duke!
With Sal Salvador
Juicy Lucy (Bee Hive Records, 1978)
With Johnny Hartman
Once In Every Life (Bee Hive, 1980)
With Mundell Lowe
A Grand Night for Swinging (Riverside, 1957)
With Various Artists
Charlie Parker 10th Memorial Concert (Limelight Records, 1965)
[edit]References

^ a b Peter Keepnews (December 29, 2010). "Billy Taylor, Jazz Pianist, Dies at 89". The New York Times. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
^ a b c Matt Schudel (December 30, 2010). "Billy Taylor, revered musician, broadcaster and spokesman for jazz, dies at 89". The Washington Post.
^ Allmusic biography
^ Colin Larkin: 'Billy Taylor bio', The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Accessed [25, June 2011]), http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/
^ "Interview with 74 year old Herb Storfer, Jazz Foundation of America President, whose Jazz Musicians Emergency Fund assists musicians in need of food, shelter and medical care.". Retrieved 2009-10-13.
^ a b c "Billy Taylor". CBS News Sunday Morning. February 11, 2009.
^ Jazz Mobile Inc.[verification needed]
^ Michael J. West (January 11, 2011). "A grand night for swinging: Billy Taylor memorial service". Washington City Paper.
^ Grammy Award Database
^ Jazz Living Legend Award 2001
^ "2010 Inductees". North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
^ ABC-Paramount LP ABC 134. — with Billy Taylor

Clark Terry with a few good serious jazz friends, including Ron Carter,



Roy Haynes, Chico Hamilton, James Moody, Frank Foster, Tony Bennett, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Ray Barretto, Paquito D'Rivera, Bob Brookmeyer, Nat Hentoff - all NEA Jazz Master Award Recipients with Dana Gioia from NEA far left - Jon Hammond — with Nancy Wilson, Chick Corea, James Moody, "Ray Barretto", Tony Bennett, Paquito D'Rivera, Roy Haynes, Freddie Hubbard, Slide Hampton - Music & Trombone Teacher in East Orange, NJ and Nat Hentoff at Sheraton New York Hotel

Joseph Timmons
Journalist/Editor at Xombiewoof Magazine

Friends
Steve Albini
V-Accordion Product Manager at Roland Corporation

Friends
Joe Berger
King at Self employed

Friends
Siegmar Grünberg
Dozent für Drums at Musikschule Schnelsen

Friends
Narada Michael Walden
President at Tarpan Studios

Friends
Jon Paris
New York, New York


Nancy Lippold-Ingram
Paisley, Renfrewshire

Jon Hammond with the great Clark Terry - Clark told me, Hammond...don't believe what they tell you about 'The Golden Years' - The Golden Years Suck!
Clark Terry (born December 14, 1920)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Terry
is an American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, educator, NEA Jazz Masters inductee, and recipient of the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achieve Beyondment Award. Only four other trumpet players in history have ever received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award: Louis Armstrong (Clark's old mentor), Miles Davis (whom Clark mentored), Dizzy Gillespie (who often described Clark as the greatest jazz trumpet player on earth) and Benny Carter. Clark Terry is one of the most prolific jazz musicians in history, having appeared on 905 known recording sessions, which makes him the most recorded trumpet player of all time. In comparison, Louis Armstrong performed on 620 sessions, Harry "Sweets" Edison on 563, and Dizzy Gillespie on 501.



He has played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–1951),[1] Duke Ellington (1951–1959)[1] and Quincy Jones (1960), and has recorded regularly both as a leader and sideman. In all, his career in jazz spans more than sixty years.
Terry was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Vashon High School and began his professional career in the early 1940s playing, in local clubs. He served as a bandsman in the United States Navy during World War II.
Terry's years with Basie and Ellington in the late 1940s and 1950s established him as a world-class jazz artist. Blending the St. Louis tone with contemporary styles, Terry’s sound influenced a generation. During this period, he took part in many of Ellington's suites and acquired a reputation for his wide range of styles (from swing to hard bop), technical proficiency, and good humor. Terry exerted a positive influence on musicians like Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, both of whom acknowledge Clark's influence during the early stages of their careers. Terry had informally taught Davis while they were still in St Louis.
After leaving Ellington, Clark's international recognition soared when he accepted an offer from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) to become its first African-American staff musician. He appeared for ten years on The Tonight Show as a member of The Tonight Show Band, first led by Skitch Henderson and later by Doc Severinsen, where his unique "mumbling" scat singing became famous when he scored a hit with "Mumbles." A persistent rumor is that Terry was a candidate to lead the band, but for racial skittishness on the part of NBC.
Terry continued to play with musicians such as J. J. Johnson and Oscar Peterson,[2] and led a group with Bob Brookmeyer that achieved popularity in the early 1960s. In the 1970s, Terry concentrated increasingly on the flugelhorn, which he plays with a full, ringing tone. In addition to his studio work and teaching at jazz workshops, Terry toured regularly in the 1980s with small groups (including Peterson's) and performed as the leader of his Big B-A-D Band (formed about 1970). After financial difficulties forced him to break up the Big B-A-D Band, he performed bands such as the Unifour Jazz Ensemble. His humor and command of jazz trumpet styles are apparent in his "dialogues" with himself, on different instruments or on the same instrument, muted and unmuted. He has occasionally performed solos on a trumpet or flugelhorn mouthpiece.
From the 1970s through the 1990s, Clark performed at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and Lincoln Center, toured with the Newport Jazz All Stars and Jazz at the Philharmonic, and he was featured with Skitch Henderson's New York Pops Orchestra. In 1998, Terry recorded George Gershwin's "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Red Hot + Rhapsody, a tribute to George Gershwin, which raised money for various charities devoted to increasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease. In 2001, he again recorded for the Red Hot Organization with artist Amel Larrieux for the compilation album Red Hot + Indigo, a tribute to Duke Ellington.
Prompted early in his career by Dr. Billy Taylor, Clark and Milt Hinton bought instruments for and gave instruction to young hopefuls which planted the seed that became Jazz Mobile in Harlem. This venture tugged at Clark's greatest love: involving youth in the perpetuation of jazz. Between global performances, Clark continues to share wholeheartedly his jazz expertise and encourage students, including up-and-coming young jazz trumpeter, Josh Shpak. Since 2000, Clark has hosted Clark Terry Jazz Festivals on land and sea, held his own jazz camps, and appeared in more than fifty jazz festivals on six continents.
His career as both leader and sideman with more than three hundred recordings demonstrates that he is one of the most prolific luminaries in jazz. Clark composed more than two hundred jazz songs and performed for seven U.S. Presidents.
He also has several recordings with major groups including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Dutch Metropole Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, hundreds of high school and college ensembles, his own duos, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, octets, and two big bands: Clark Terry's Big Bad Band and Clark Terry's Young Titans of Jazz, with the likes of Branford Marsalis, Conrad Herwig, Brad Leali, Stephen Guerra, Adam Schroeder, Frank Greene and Tony Lujan. The Clark Terry Archive at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, contains instruments, tour posters, awards, original copies of over 70 big band arrangements, recordings and other memorabilia.
Terry was a long-time resident of Bayside, Queens, and Corona, Queens, New York.[3] He and his wife, Gwen, later moved to Haworth, New Jersey.[4] They currently reside in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.[5]
[edit]Awards and honors

Over 250 awards, medals and honors, including:
The 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, two Grammy certificates, three Grammy nominations
The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award in 1991
Sixteen honorary doctorates
Keys to several cities
Jazz Ambassador for U.S. State Department tours in the Middle East and Africa
A knighthood in Germany
Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award, presented by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity in 1985. Terry was awareded honorary membership in the Fraternity by the Beta Zeta Chapter at the College of Emporia in 1968. He was also made an honorary member of the Iota Phi chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, National Honorary Band Fraternity in 2011.
The French Order of Arts and Letters (2000)
A life-sized wax figure for the Black World History Museum in St. Louis
Inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame (1996)[6]
NARAS Present's Merit Award (2005)
Trumpeter of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association (2005)
Discography

Clark Terry performs with the Great Lakes Navy Band Jazz Ensemble
As leader
Clark Terry (EmArcy, 1955) - also released as Introducing Clark Terry and Swahili
Serenade to a Bus Seat (Riverside, 1957)
Out on a Limb with Clark Terry (Argo, 1957)
Duke with a Difference (Riverside, 1957)
In Orbit (Riverside, 1958) - with Thelonious Monk
Top and Bottom Brass (Riverside, 1959) with Don Butterfield
Paris (Swing, 1960)
Color Changes (Candid, 1960)
Everything's Mellow (Prestige, 1961)
Mellow Moods (Prestige, 1961)
All American (Prestige, 1962)
Plays the Jazz Version of "All American" (Moodsville, 1962)
The Night Life (Mood, 1962)
Clark Terry & Bob Brookmeyer (Verve, 1962)
3 in Jazz (RCA, 1963)
More (Cameo, 1963)
Tread Ye Lightly (Cameo, 1963)
What Makes Sammy Swing (20th Century, 1963)
The Happy Horns of Clark Terry (Impulse!, 1964)
The Power of Positive Swinging (Mainstream, 1964)
Live 1964 (Emerald, 1964)
Quintet (Mainstream, 1964)
Tonight (Mainstream, 1964)
Clark Terry Tonight (Mainstream, 1964)
Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One Clark Terry (Mercury, 1964)
The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (Pablo, 1974) with Big Joe Turner, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Roy Eldridge
Spanish Rice (Impulse!, 1966)
Gingerbread Men (Mainstream, 1966)
Mumbles (Mainstream, 1966)
Angyumaluma Bongliddleany Nannyany Awhan Yi! (Mainstream, 1966)
It's What's Happening - The Varitone Sound of CT' (Impulse!, 1967)
Music in the Garden (Jazz Heritage, 1968)
At the Montreux Jazz Festival (Polydor, 1969)
Live on 57th Street (Big Bear, 1969)
Big B-A-D Band In Concert, Live 1970... (EToile, 1970)
Live at the Wichita Jazz Festival (Vanguard, 1974)
Clark Terry and His Jolly Giants (Vanguard, 1975)
Live at the Wichita Jazz Festival (Vanguard, 1975)
Oscar Peterson and Clark Terry (Pablo, 1975)
Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (Pablo, 1975)
Clark Terry's Big B-A-D Band Live at Buddy's... (Vanguard, 1976)
Live at the Jazz House (Pausa, 1976)
Wham (BASF, 1976)
Squeeze Me (Chiaroscuro, 1976)
The Globetrotter (Vanguard, 1977)
Out of Nowhere (Bingow, 1978)
Brahms Lullabye (Amplitude, 1978)
Funk Dumplin's (Matrix, 1978)
Clark After Dark (MPS, 1978)
Mother______! Mother______! (Pablo, 1979)
Ain't Misbehavin' (Pablo, 1979)
Live in Chicago, Vol. 1 (Monad, 1979)
Live in Chicago, Vol. 2 (Monad, 1979)
The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (1980)
Memories of Duke (Pablo/OJC, 1980)
Yes, the Blues (Pablo/OJC, 1981)
Jazz at the Philharmonic - Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness (1983)
To Duke and Basie (Rhino, 1986)
Jive at Five (Enja, 1986)
Metropole Orchestra (Mons, 1988)
Portraits (Chesky, 1988) - with Don Friedman (p), Victor Gaskin (b) Lewis Nash (d)
The Clark Terry Spacemen (Chiaroscuro, 1989)
Locksmith Blues (Concord Jazz, 1989)
Having Fun (Delos, 1990)
Live at the Village Gate (Chesky, 1990)
Live at the Village Gate: Second Set (Chesky, 1990)
What a Wonderful World: For Lou (Red Baron, 1993)
Shades of Blues (Challenge, 1994)
Remember the Time (Mons, 1994)
With Pee Wee Claybrook & Swing Fever (D' Note, 1995)
Top and Bottom Brass'[' (Chiaroscuro, 1995)
Reunion (D'Note, 1995)
Express (Reference, 1995)
Good Things in Life (Mons, 1996)
Ow (E.J.s) 1996)
The Alternate Blues (Analogue, 1996)
Ritter der Ronneburg, 1998 (Mons, 1998)
One on One (Chesky, 2000)
A Jazz Symphony (Centaur, 2000)
Herr Ober: Live at Birdland Neuburg (Nagel-Heyer, 2001)
Live on QE2 (Chiaroscuro, 2001)
Jazz Matinee (Hanssler, 2001)
The Hymn (Candid, 2001)
Clark Terry and His Orchestra Featuring Paul Gonsalves [1959] (Storyville, 2002)
Live in Concert (Image, 2002)
Flutin' and Fluglin (Past Perfect, 2002)
Friendship (Columbia, 2002)
Live! At Buddy's Place (Universe, 2003)
Live at Montmarte June 1975 (Storyville, 2003)
George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess (A440 Music Group, 2004)
Live at Marian's with the Terry's Young Titan's of Jazz (Chiaroscuro, 2005)
[edit]As sideman


Terry performed at the White House with singer Nnenna Freelon in 2006
With Clifford Brown
Jam Session (EmArcy, 1954) - with Maynard Ferguson
With Gary Burton
Who is Gary Burton? (RCA, 1962)
With Charlie Byrd
Byrd at the Gate (Riverside, 1963)
With Tadd Dameron
The Magic Touch (1962)
With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Afro-Jaws (Riverside, 1960)
Trane Whistle (Prestige, 1960)
With Duke Ellington
Such Sweet Thunder (Columbia, 1957)
Ellington at Newport (Columbia, 1958)
With Art Farmer
Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (Mercury, 1962)
With Dizzy Gillespie
Gillespiana (Verve, 1960)
Carnegie Hall Concert (Verve, 1961)
The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (Pablo, 1974) with Big Joe Turner, Roy Eldridge and Harry "Sweets" Edison
The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (Pablo, 1980) - with Freddie Hubbard and Oscar Peterson
The Alternate Blues (Pablo, 1980) - with Freddie Hubbard and Oscar Peterson
With Paul Gonsalves
Cookin' (Argo, 1957)
With Johnny Griffin
White Gardenia (Riverside, 1961)
With Dave Grusin
Homage to Duke (1993)
With Lionel Hampton
You Better Know It!!! (Impulse!, 1965)
With Chico Hamilton
The Further Adventures of El Chico (Impulse!, 1966)
With Jimmy Heath
Really Big! (Riverside, 1960)
With Milt Jackson
Big Bags (Riverside, 1962)
For Someone I Love (Riverside, 1963)
Ray Brown / Milt Jackson with Ray Brown (Verve, 1965)
With Elvin Jones
Summit Meeting (Vanguard, 1976) with James Moody, Bunky Green and Roland Prince
With Sam Jones
Down Home (Riverside, 1962)
With Yusef Lateef
The Centaur and the Phoenix (Riverside, 1960)
With Mundell Lowe
Themes from Mr. Lucky, the Untouchables and Other TV Action Jazz (RCA Camden, 1960)
Satan in High Heels (soundtrack) (Charlie Parker, 1961)
With Junior Mance
The Soul of Hollywood (Jazzland, 1962)
With Gary McFarland
Tijuana Jazz (Impulse!, 1965)
With Charles Mingus
The Complete Town Hall Concert (Blue Note, 1962 [1994])
With Blue Mitchell
Smooth as the Wind (1961)
A Sure Thing (1962)
With the Modern Jazz Quartet
Jazz Dialogue (Atlantic, 1965)
With Mark Murphy
That's How I Love the Blues! (Riverside, 1962)
With Oliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle (Impulse!, 1966)
Happenings with Hank Jones (Impulse!, 1966)
The Spirit of '67 with Pee Wee Russell (Impulse!, 1967)
With Chico O'Farrill
Nine Flags (Impulse!, 1966)
With Sonny Rollins
Brass & Trio (1958)
With Lalo Schifrin
New Fantasy (Verve, 1964)
Once a Thief and Other Themes (Verve, 1965)
With Billy Taylor
Taylor Made Jazz (Argo, 1959)
Kwamina (Mercury, 1961)
With Cecil Taylor
New York City R&B (1961)
With Teri Thornton
Devil May Care (Riverside, 1961)
With Randy Weston
Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)
With Jimmy Woode
The Colorful Strings of Jimmy Woode (Argo, 1957)
With Various artists
The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (1967)
[edit]Bibliography

Let's Talk Trumpet: From Legit to Jazz
Interpretation of the Jazz Language
Clark Terry's System of Circular Breathing for Woodwind and Brass Instruments
TerryTunes, anthology of 60 original compositions (1st ed., 1972; 2nd ed. w/doodle-tonguing chapter, 2009)
Ellington, Duke. “Clark Terry,” chapter in Music is My Mistress (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973): 229-230.
“Clark Terry – Jazz Ambassador: C.T.’s Diary” [cover portrait] Jazz Journal International 31 (May 6, 1978): 7-8.
Beach, Doug. “Clark Terry and the St. Louis Trumpet Sound,” Instrumentalist 45 (April 1991): 8-12.
Bernotas, Bob. “Clark Terry,” Jazz Player 1 (October–November 1994): 12-19.
LaBarbera, John. “Clark Terry: More Than ‘Mumbles’,” ITG Journal [International Trumpet Guild] 19, No. 2 (1994): 36-41.
Blumenthal, Bob. “Reflections on a Brilliant Career” [reprint of Jazz Times 25, No. 8], Jazz Educators Journal 29, No. 4 (1997): 30-33, 36-37.
Morgenstern, Dan. “Clark Terry” in Living With Jazz: A Reader (New York: Pantheon, 2004): 196-201. [Reprint of Down Beat 34 (June 1, 1967): 16-18.
Owens, Thomas. “Trumpeters: Clark Terry” in Bebop: The Music and the Players (New York: Oxford, 1995): 111-113.
“Jazz for the Record”[Clark Terry Archive at William Paterson University], New York Times (December 11, 2004).
“Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry” (University of California Press: 2011) — with Clark Terry.

Ulrich Vormehr
Frankfurt, Germany

Hans Torbijn
Sint Paulus Mulo Vlissingen

Chris Grove
Works at Keyboards-Eddie Money

Narada Michael Walden
President at Tarpan Studios

Joseph Timmons
Journalist/Editor at Xombiewoof Magazine

Jon Paris
New York, New York

One of my favorite drummers and super cool cats



- Jackie Williams on the drums at Local 802 annual Holiday party with Junior Mance (not shown) and Hide Tanaka - Jon Hammond

Junior Mance throwin' it down on the piano! at our annual Holiday Party Local 802 Musicians Union



- funny set up for the gig - Hide Tanaka (those are his feet) was up on the bandstand with Jackie Williams drums, Junior down below - Jon Hammond — with Junior Mance and Hide Tanaka at Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM

Ben Koning from Apple when he came to do a presentation about his indie movie "Echo Of The Future" A Tale of Sunnyvale



- for our radio club, an audience of veteran radio engineers at California Historical Radio Society in Radio KRE
*Archive interview with Ben:
http://archive.org/details/JonHammondBenKoningInterviewonHammondCastKYOURadio
Special guest Ben Koning on HammondCast Show KYOU Radio speak...See More — with Ben Koning at California Historical Radio Society

There's the famous big flowers Bert Padell sent over before I hit the gig with Bernard Purdie at Cave Canem



- my neighbor Michael Sergio probably remembers those flowers, Frank the Super let me put them in our lobby - they lasted a good 2 weeks. I had my 2-Leslie stack for that gig, we rocked that place - a lot of old friends came out of the woodwork for that hit including Don Friedman who was the ex-partner of mega concert promoter Ron Delsener - JH

Bernard Purdie at his then new Sonor Hi-Lite drum kit on my band Jon Hammond and The Late Rent Session Men gig we played at Cave Canem 24 First Ave Manhattan, NY
This was a very bizarre gig, I showed up and somebody from the club told me an admirer sent a huge flowers arrangement, it turned out to be from Bert Padell who I had personally invited to the gig - he sent a note with it with good luck wishes - I had the display in lobby of my building after the gig until it finally died - must have cost a fortune!



This is Bert's client list, he used to be a Yankee Ball Boy (a long time ago!) among other things - rep for all these folks:
Aaron Carter
Africa Bambaataa
Alessandra Ambrosio
Alicia Keys
Alice Cooper
Alzbeta Syrovatkova
An Bar
Ana Beatrice Barros
Andre Betts
Andre Brown
Andrew W. K.
Angie Featherstone
Angie Stone
Angela Simmons
Ardon Altino
Arma Andon
Asha Miller
August Darnell
Barry Michael Cooper
Ben Vereen
Bernard Kerik
Big Daddy Kane
Biz Marke
Bounty Killer
Brad “Scarface” Jordan
Britney Spears
C. Smyth
Calvin Richardson
Carl Banks
Carl Redding
Cardia
Chivon Dean
Chris Gotti
Clark Kent
Clayton Hunter
Craig Mack
Cyndi Lauper
Cynthia Calabretta
Dame Grease
Damon Elliott
Diggy Simmons
Darrin Whittington
Darwin Hobbs
Darryl Brown
David Hall
David Wolff
Debra Antney
De La Soul
Devante Swing
Devante
Dalvin Degrate
Doug E. Fresh
Drew Nieporent
Dr. Turnbull
Eagles of Deathmetal
Earl “The Pearl” Monroe
Earnest Byner
Easy Mo Bee
Eddie Timmons
El General
Eric B
Eric Sermon
Eugeny Platov
Everything But the Girl
Faith Evans
Flavie Lheritier
Fonzi Thorton
Foxy Brown
Frankie Presley
Freddie Jackson
Fun Loving Criminals
Gary Haas
Gary Kurfirst
Genard Parker
Gerald Isaacs
Grand Puba
Harlem Boys Choir
Hex Hector
Innate Forte
Inga Savits
Ira Schickman
Irina Bonarenko
Irv Gotti
Issa Thompson
Ja Rule
Jackie Mason
Jacob the Jeweler
Jaquar
Jenny Wong
Jerry Wonder
Jesia Chiminazzo
Jillian Nelson
Jimmy Cozier
JIVEjones
Joan Jett
Joan Smalls
Joaquin Dean
Jodeci
JoJo Simmons
John Berendt
Jonathan Peters
Joseph Robinson
K-Ci and JoJo
Katerina Graham
Keisha Bolden
Kelo
Kenza Fourti
Kevin Leong
KC Lam
Kimberly Scott
Kinga Rajzak
Kendell Holt
Kristina Malaityte
Kyle West
Laura Mercer
Leland Robinson
Leslie Dodson
Leslie LaRoche
Lisa Simone
Little Mo
Loan Chabanol
Lorraine Bracco
Lou Pinella
Loni Ayers
Lucia Dvorska
Luciano Ribiero
Madonna Louise Ciccone
Mahogany
Marcelo Boldrini
Marcus Cooper aka "Pleasure P"
Marco Parker
Margaret Whitton
Mary J Blige
Marvin Peart
Maria Giorgio
Mechalie Jamison
Melissa Auf Der Maur
Mia Hessner Sovinsky
Michael Jones
Michael Vann
Minnesota
Midnight Star
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Misa
Mos Def
Monica Payne
Monie Love
Monster Magnet
Natalia Semanova
NOBU
Olga Otrokhova
Pat Dinizio
Paolo Della Puppa
Peter Max
Philip Pitts
Prakazrel Michel (Pras)
Precision
Prince Paul
Qddus (Benjamin Philippe)
Queens of the Stone Age
Raica Brito
Ralph Branca
Rakim
Randy Myers
Razhel Brown
Reflection Eternal
Remy Martin
Renee Diggs
Res
Rica Olivera Brito
Richard Adler
Richie Blackmore
Ricky St. Haillaire
RJ Rice
Robert DeNiro
Run DMC
Rusty Staub
Russell Simmons
Sanjaya Malaker
Scott Lobdell
Shawn White
Simone Muterthies
Siritollerod
Sophie Patitz
Stellastar
Stephen Bray
Sugar Dice
Swizz Beatz
Talib Kweli
Talking Heads
Tatiana Nikiforova
Teddy Pendergrass
Teddy Riley
The Berman Brothers
The Kinks
The Love Scene
The Smithereens
The Stills
Thomas Young
Tichina Arnold
Toni Braxton
Tribeca Grill
Tyrone Fyffe
Vada Nobles
Valeria Maza
Valentia Zelyaeva
Vasal Benford

Vanessa Simmons
Veruschka Von Lehndorf
Vic Thrill
Victor Cook
Vincent Herbert
Vladmira Cichova
Walking Concert
Wendy Williams
Whitey Ford
Whitney Thompson
Wyclef Jean
Zaz Zielinski — with Bernard Purdie and Bernard Purdie at Lucky Cheng's

Paul G Love ·
was that a regular gig Jon? Can't believe I missed that!
Wednesday at 10:19pm ·

Jon Hammond Paul, what is a 'regular gig'? Jon
Wednesday at 10:20pm ·

Paul G Love · Friends with Joe Berger and 75 others
more than once
Wednesday at 10:21pm ·

Jon Hammond We played there a few times actually. Snooze ya' lose, we won't be there again most likely. In over 40 years I wouldn't call any gigs regular - some were better than others and some more steady. The days of taking up residency in one club location have pretty much been over since early 70's in my experience. Stay tuned for my upcoming book "Weird gigs I have played" by Jon Hammond
Wednesday at 10:24pm ·

Gregory Hodges I cant wait to read that, im sure i could at least fill up one page in that book. I think that is a great idea. I dont buy books but id buy that one
Wednesday at 11:45pm ·

Eric T. Everett ·
Hi Jon -- Do you have any pics from the mid 90's with Bernard playing his Slingerland kit?
Yesterday at 7:01am ·

Jon Hammond Eric: Bernard always played Sonor during that time on my gigs, with Sabian cymbals - his Salmon colored Sonor Signature kit with 18" kick always, and starting from this gig he got the hi-lite set, much lighter in weight than the Sonor Signature cans, Jon Hammond
Yesterday at 7:04am ·

Eric T. Everett ·
Many thanks, John. I own his Slingerland kit -- my reason for asking. Thanks for posting such great videos and pics over the years. I love "Late Rent"!
Yesterday at 7:17am ·

Jose Ramos ·
One of the nicest people you'd like to meet and talk to. Met him in Montreal and he visited me cuppla times at that place on mass ave.
Yesterday at 2:58pm

Jon Hammond in-studio with Jesse Chuy Varela KCSM 91.1 FM
Archive Audio: http://archive.org/details/HammondCast_15



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.. — at KCSM Jazz 91

Charles Bukowski Birthday Gig at Bar Centrale St. Pauli, Hamburg Paul-Rosen-Strasse 19, 22767 Hamburg
The lady owner of Bar Centrale was a big time Charles Bukowski freak, so I organized to have Knut Benzner from NDR Radio read from the Book of Bukowski writings in Deutsch by candle light in-between sets from my organ combo, fun gig!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski



Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.[6] It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books.

Teruo Goto
Works at Dirty old Musician.

Joseph Timmons
Journalist/Editor at Xombiewoof Magazine

Yashko Golembiovsky
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (ACA)

Volker Kleinophorst

Antje von Rein
Hamburg, Germany

Siegmar Grünberg
Dozent für Drums at Musikschule Schnelsen

Ulrich Vormehr
Frankfurt, Germany

Hans Torbijn
Sint Paulus Mulo Vlissingen

"We Move The World On A Kart-A-Bag™ Super 600"
Jon Hammond on the gig at the Baustelle Party for
Schlachthof Hamburg when there was still dirt on the floor.



Gideon Schier and his partner Ramen started Schlachthof as a concert and art venue.
On the band that night I had Uwe Petersen drums, Bernard Fichtner guitar and Tobias Schmidt-Relenberg saxophone. The Kart-A-Bag poster is the ad that ran for a long time showing me on tour with my Hammond XB-2 organ:
"We Move The World On A Kart-A-Bag™ Super 600" ! JH — at Schlachthof Hamburg

Yashko Golembiovsky, Ethan Khan

Bernard Purdie, Funky, Swinging, Jazz, Blues, Organ, Hamburg, NDR, Kart-A-Bag, Clark Terry, NEA Jazz, Jon Hammond, Radio, TV, Local 802, Musicians Union

Mittwoch, 28. November 2012

HammondCast 41 Jon's Journal November 28 2012

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HammondCast 41
HammondCast by Jon Hammond (JonHammond) Today's show a Saxophone Extravaganza with Bennett Friedman, Tony Lakatos, Igor Butman, Marc Baum on the Jon Hammond Band. Also Bernard Purdie and OAKLAND A's REPORT with LAZY LARRY! Swingin' Funky Jazz & Blues of Organist/Accordionist JON HAMMOND *Member Local 802 Local 6 Musicians Union ASCAP Composer & Publisher. All music on HammondCast is instrumental & original: "The FINGERS...are the SINGERS!" + Interviews. *Official Site: http://www.HammondCast.com

Rest In Peace MANDRE aka Michael Andre Lewis - Dec 7, 1948 - Jan 31, 2012 DTI Records Recording Artist, formerly on Motown Label and former band member / bass player with Johnny Guitar Watson folks - Jon Hammond
photo - Palo Alto California -- Andre Lewis aka Mandre with Buddy Miles playing guitar - Jon Hammond



http://www.chartattack.com/news/2012/03/08/rip-michael-andre-lewis-aka-mandre-a-mini-retrospective/
According to Amsterdam label Rush Hour’s Facebook page, RIP Michael Andre Lewis aka Mandre, The Vangelis of Motown, passed away on January 31st.

From the age of 15, Lewis demonstrated a preternatural musical gift with his bands Mike Lewis Quartet and Andre Lewis and the New Breed. After a highly successful career during the ‘70s as a session musician for the likes of The Who, Sly and the Family Stone and Jimi Hendrix, Lewis signed to Motown and developed “Mandre,” an artist from outer-space and a character that made him one of the first musicians to play with the idea of cyborg-as-performer. After three albums for Motown, and two hits in “Solar Flight (Opus I)” and “Freakin’s Fine,” Lewis released his final album as Mandre, Mandre 4, in 1982 on his own Futuregroove label.

It seems indolent to refer to Mandre as an electronic musician, because he pulled from so many different genres to create a sound that was unique enough to shun any label, yet so familiar that you could turn on ‘70s radio and hear his influences on almost every song. Disco, funk, soul, pop, and music that was yet to be created can be heard on each of his albums. And he didn’t just pioneer with the music he created, he also pioneered how music was created; He helped design the LinnDrum drum sequencer that helped define ‘80s pop, and was one of the first artists signed to major label to integrate one of hip-hop’s defining instruments, the Roland Tr-808, into his work.

He was an artist that could have been mentioned in the same breath as Kraftwerk and Herbie Hancock, had more people known about his work.

Obit - Lewis, Michael Andre`
Dec 7, 1948 - Jan 31, 2012

International recording artist, Michael Andre` Lewis, wrote and produced for Motown Records in the 1970's. Andre` Lewis, also known as 'Mandre', toured with musical giants, such as Frank Zappa, Johnny Guitar Watson, Aretha Franklin, Buddy Miles, Sly and The Family Stone, Santana, and many, many more, as well as local musicians. Michael Andre` Lewis was preceded in death by his parents, Harry Jr. and Annabell Lewis; grandparents, Harry Lewis Sr. and Dell Moore (Frank); brother, Sherdale Lewis; sister, Roslyn McClain; and grandson, Jermaine Lewis. He is survived by ex-wives, Patricia Lewis of Omaha, NE, and Sabina Ritter of Munich Germany; six children: Robert Lewis, Joy Borsak (Thomas), Toni Lewis, Andrea Scott (Booker) all of Omaha, NE, Riva Lewis of Munich, Germany, and Shawn Dreason of California; nine grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives, and special friends.
MEMORIAL SERVICE will be Monday, February 6th at Preston Love Arts and Jazz Center, 24th and Lake St., 2pm. Musical Tribute and Musicians Sit-in at Doc's Place, 40th and Ames Ave., 7pm-Midnight.
Published in Omaha World-Herald on February 3, 2012

Fairfax CA -- 19 Broadway Club Jon Hammond Band
Youtube http://youtu.be/b-7_DphmfV0
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John Bishop (guitar) feature on Hammond's Moanin' Blues, Jon Hammond Band at 19 Broadway Niteclub in Fairfax CA. Nobody in the Bay Area can lay down a shuffle like Ronnie Smith Jr. (drums), Alex Budman (tenor) and leader Jon Hammond at his well-traveled Hammond XB-2 organ just back from Germany tour here playing through 1965 Fender Twin Reverb amp once owned by John McFee (Clover, Doobie Brothers). http://www.jonhammondband.com/ — with John Bishop, Alex Budman, Ronnie Smith and Jon Hammond Band at 19 Broadway Bar & Night Club

Paris France -- Palais des Sports 1981 - Carlos Santana,



Richard Baker keyboardist looking on - Jon Hammond — with Carlos Santana at Palais des Sports

Gretel und Alfons by night - Große Freiheit 29, 22767 Hamburg



- Jon Hammond http://www.gretelundalfons.de/
This is the same kneipe where The Beatles used to hang out night after night drinking beer during the time when they were playing in The Star Club nearby on Gr. Freiheit. The story that Horst Jankowiak (R.I.P.) told me was that Paul McCartney racked up a pretty big bar tab that was left unpaid for some years, and then he came in to pay up the bill with a pretty good tip back in the 80's. Paul never forgot Gretel und Alfons! Horst was a great guy, I had the pleasure of meeting him a few times. He had Joe Berger and I sign the famous guest book on the next page over from the Jimi Hendrix inscription. Jimi signed the book when he played at The Star Club a few doors down from Gretel und Alfons on the Grosse Freiheit in the Reeperbahn district of St. Pauli Hamburg — at Gretel & Alfons

L to R: Joe Berger, Horst Jankowiak R.I.P. owner manager of Gretel und Alfons and Jon Hammond



Horst had Joe and Jon sign the famous guest book on the next page over from the Jimi Hendrix inscription, Jimi signed the book when he played at The Star Club a few doors down from Gretel und Alfons on the Grosse Freiheit in the Reeperbahn district of St. Pauli Hamburg http://www.HammondCast.com/ — with Joe Berger

Scott May Macht Schau!!

Donna Fiducia · Friends with Daryn Kagan and 8 others
Great story Jon!

Jon Hammond Yep, Mach Schau! was the battle cry from Horst Fascher the big boss at The Star Club, he would shout it at The Beatles and they really got their show together there during their Reeperbahn Days. Horst is still around and connected to my FaceBook - also...See More

Part 3 Jon Hammond Memorable Gigs, People and Places

Photo by Dr. Nader Shabahangi - Jon Hammond Trio



- Jim Grantham saxophone, Jack Dorsey drums
Jon Hammond at the new Hammond Sk1 organ - Swingin' Funky Jazz and Blues
at Bayside Park | A Caring Elder Community
http://hammondcast.blogspot.com/2011/07/jazz-festival-at-agesong-bayside-park.html — at Agesong At Bayside Park

51 Minute In-Studio Radio Interview with Jon Hammond and Bernard Purdie at Radio KALX with Anthony Bonet Youtube http://youtu.be/GYg4v91bg1A

New York NY — 9 West 57th Street, the famous Solow Building –



in 1985 this is where I was called to a meeting with then Sony President John O’Donnell in the Sony Corporate offices on the 43rd Floor where he offered me a 7 year contract for my cable TV show “The Jon Hammond Show” to be exclusive on Sony on the new Software Division. At the time the only acts signed to this division on Sony Label were Tina Turner, David Bowie and an experimental project called “Private Dances” – Jon Hammond — at Solow Bldg Corp



Late Rent Jon Hammond Band with David Fathead Newman and Bernard Purdie
Youtube http://youtu.be/M_a6T5wW6Vg

FATHEAD Late Rent JON HAMMOND Band
Tenor Saxophonist David Fathead Newman on Jon Hammond Band theme song LATE RENT in Zanzibar and Grill NYC
Bernard Purdie drums, Jon Hammond at B3 organ with his long time theme song of The Jon Hammond Show TV Show
in 26th year on MNNTV Time Warner and RCN Cable New York City special thanks and R.I.P. Eric Fuchsman and David Fathead Newman

HammondCast 3 Jon’s Journal November 27 2012
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RIP MANDRE aka Michael Andre Lewis, Buddy Miles, Motown, DTI Records, jazz organ, funky blues, 9 West 57th Street, Sony, Dr. Nader Shabahangi, AgeSong Bayside Park, Local 802, Musicians Union

Dienstag, 27. November 2012

HammondCast 3 Jon's Journal November 27 2012

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Grooving out to my trusty Sony TFM-6060W FM/AM 2Band portable - goes a long time on a 9volt battery! - Jon Hammond



Jon Hammond in-studio with Chuy Varela who is the long-time Bay Area Music Director of stations KPFA & KCSM talking about the Bay Area music scene and travels in Europe. From there to Paris France for a live concert broadcast on Radio France Inter hosted by M. Andre Francis the legendary French Jazz Radio Producer. The concert/broadcast took place in March of 1996. From Paris to Frankfurt Germany to the AFN Europe Headquarters, Jon Hammond and the Late Rent Session Men live on AFN's Powerlite Show, the trio was crowded around one big old Neumann tube microphone and broadcast world-wide live of first performance of Jon's composition "New Funk/Hip-Hop Chitlins" with James Preston of the Sons of Champlin on drums, Barry Finnerty-guitar and Jon on Hammond XB-2 organ.
All songs are written by Jon Hammond and ASCAP Published JON HAMMOND International, Inc.

Couple of the Day on Fifth Avenue - Jon Hammond



Business is a little slow today for giant Elmo Muppet person! Hopefully it will pick up



- Jon Hammond — with Elmo at Times Square NYC

Congratulations Times Square Nuptials Couple!



- Jon Hammond — at Times Square NYC

Every piano has a story - this one is pretty much a goner, but it lives outside of



Soundwave Studios now, bio-degradable! - Jon Hammond

Jon Hammond's Sk1 Hammond organ in live room at Coyote Hearing Studios for Kiyoshi Foster recording session



- Jon Hammond — at Coyote Hearing Studio - Jeremy Black at the controls - Kiyoshi's record will be coming out soon! - JH — at Coyote Hearing Studio

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!

Here are some photos from just a few days taken by my long-time great girlfriend Jennifer and myself at his gig,

R.I.P. Big Lou - Louis Colombo the greatest trumpet player bandleader baseball slugger and golfer ever!

I used to go with Lou to the golf course where he had the snack concession in Yarmouth just to watch him drive

balls in to outer space. I couldn't believe how far and hard he could hit the ball. Lou would put on black

executioner gloves and hit the ball and it would disappear, just keep on sailing in to the sky like Lou's spirit

must be now. His music and great memories will live on forever.

Sincerely,

Jon Hammond - Member AFM Local 802 and Local 6 Musicians Union

*Note: Lou's band the other night at Roadhouse Cafe were so great, I'm so sorry cats:

Nelson Foucht on trombone, F.L. "Woody" Brubaker piano and keyboard bass, Richard Iannuzzi drums and Gil DiBenedetto tenor saxophone and clarinet.

Jon Hammond and Lou Colombo


**Note: Lou Colombo and my neighbor Leo Ball (R.I.P.) also a fine trumpet player member of Local 802 were born on the same day in Brockton MA







*Note: Lou called me on my cell phone when I was at the airport just about to fly out of Tampa TPA Airport, he told me he really dug

my album that I had given him "NDR SESSIONS Projekt" my first record of mostly standards, it was inspired much by him actually. Lou

was talking about the horn players on it, Lutz Buechner and Joe "Jo" Gallardo, he really dug them and he told me we were going to do

something back up in the Cape for sure. I was very touched by his call and he had called me on my previous birthday last year, I got

all choked up when he told me that. Thanks a million Lou!

Jon

*WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Lou Colombo Movie by Jon Hammond

http://www.archive.org/details/JonHammondLouColomboMoviebyJonHammond

Lou Colombo and Jon Hammond - 02/23/2012


1978 Photo of Lou Colombo Band with Jon Hammond on B3 organ House Band at private club Wychmere Harbor Club in Harwich Port Cape Cod MA
L to R: Frank Shea drums, Lou Colombo trumpet, Jack Pena guitar, Jon Hammond B3 organ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkqBaFIAXn4

Jon Hammond here...I just came back from visiting my main man Lou Colombo the great trumpet player bandleader and former Pro Baseball player in Fort Myers Florida. I played on Lou's band for 2.5 years in the late 70's in house band at the Wychmere Harbor Club in Cape Cod. Lou is going strong happy to report, playing regularly at the restaurant of his daughter Sherri and son inlaw Marc Neeley - Roadhouse Cafe during winter months and in the summer he plays at his son David's Roadhouse Cafe in Hyannis MA on Cape Cod. I schlepped my Hammond Sk1 organ all the way down there in hopes I could sit in with Lou for a couple of tunes but unfortunately that wasn't possible, however I shot some video of Lou and his fine group, so enjoy the music and personality of Lou Colombo, one of the all-time greats on his instrument!
The musicians on Lou's band here at Roadhouse Cafe are Nelson Foucht on trombone, F.L. "Woody" Brubaker piano and keyboard bass, Richard Iannuzzi drums and Gil DiBenedetto tenor saxophone and clarinet.
Plus a little bit of flashback audio from our gig in 1978 near the end some photos, old and new from just a few days ago. Enjoy folks! sincerely, Jon Hammond

*Note: Some Baseball Stats for Louis Colombo as a player - he played pro baseball until breaking ankle at age 24 -

Louis Colombo:
1953 Newport News Dodgers Statistics -- Minor Leagues - Baseball ...
www.baseball-reference.com › Minor Leagues › Teams
Affiliation: Brooklyn Dodgers-NL Manager: ... 6, Louis Colombo*, 26, 123, 432, 134, 20, 1, 4 .310 .389, 168. 7,

1945 Brooklyn Dodgers Minor League Affiliations - Baseball ...
www.baseball-reference.com › Minor Leagues › Affiliates
1945 Brooklyn Dodgers Minor League Affiliates. Other Years: 1944 ..... 49, Louis Colombo*, 18, NNW, B, 56, 213, 66, 12, 2, 3 .310 .427, 91. 50,

*Member Local 802 and Local 6 Musicans Union, a HammondCast http://www.HammondCast.com



http://vimeo.com/37842424

Lou Colombo Movie by Jon Hammond from Jon Hammond on Vimeo.



This is my Hammond Sk1 Organ in GKPE-49-TSA Gator Flight Case after I finally got it back from Newark EWR Airport after flying with it to Fort Myers from San Francisco, then taking it to Lou's gig at Roadhouse Cafe, flying to JFK but my organ went to Newark by mistake. It was supposed to be delivered but they never even left the airport with it, so I took a bus ride back out to New Jersey from Times Square and picked it up personally. You can see the big INSPECTED sticker that TSA plastered of my American Federation of Musicians Union sticker. 2 days later I flew with it to San Francisco for a gig and that's where I am now with my Sk1 Hammond Organ.


Lou's band in front of Roadhouse Cafe Fort Myers FL

L to R: F.L. "Woody" Brubaker piano and keyboard bass, Gil DiBenedetto tenor saxophone and clarinet, Lou Colombo trumpet vocals, Nelson Foucht trombone, Richard Iannuzzi drums - photo by Jon Hammond


Lou Colombo, Trumpet, Jazz, Roadhouse Cafe, Fort Myers FL, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1978, Wychmere Harbor Club, Local 802 Musicians Union

**Note: Lou Colombo and my neighbor Leo Ball (R.I.P.) also a fine trumpet player member of Local 802 were born on the same day in Brockton MA




*LISTEN TO AUDIO: HERE HammondCast 17 and Breaking News from Jon Hammond

http://www.archive.org/details/HammondCast_17

HammondCast 17, 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
http://www.HammondCast.com

NDR SESSIONS Projekt


http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ndr-sessions-projekt/id154024761

Spotlight on Lou Colombo

*LISTEN TO AUDIO: HammondCast 202 Pt 2 Spotlight on Lou Colombo KYOU Radio

http://ia700404.us.archive.org/26/items/JonHammondHammondCast202KYOURadio/HammondCast202.mp3

HammondCast 202 KYOU Radio special edition with part 2 of recording from Wychmere Harbor Club when Jon played B3 organ on the Lou Colombo Band, the house band at Wychmere Harbor Club in Harwich Port Cape Cod MA. First backing up a feature dance duo with cha cha and then Emily waltz, Saturday Night Fever followed by the chaser 'California Here I Come', then Summertime, Hello Dolly medley, Bossa nova medley Watch What Happens in to Wave and then a cooking "In The Mood" taking it home with Jon's "Lydia's Tune" and some of Sidewinder © http://www.HammondCast.com

http://www.archive.org/details/JonHammondHammondCast202KYOURadio
*LISTEN TO AUDIO: HammondCast 201 KYOU Radio Spotlight on Lou Colombo Wychmere Harbor Club House Band

http://ia700407.us.archive.org/3/items/JonHammondHammondCast201KYOURadio/HammondCast201.mp3


http://www.archive.org/details/JonHammondHammondCast201KYOURadio/


HammondCast 201 KYOU Radio, today Jon Hammond puts the spotlight on LOU COLOMBO trumpet player band leader originally from Brockton MA, Jon played organ with Lou for 2.5 years on the house band at the exclusive Wychmere Harbor Club and Thompson's Clam Bar in Harwich Port Cape Cod MA - a recently discovered recording from the bandstand with Lou Colombo, Jon Hammond on B3 organ, Frank Shea drums and 2 additional horns on a big Saturday night: "Meditation" medley with "Shadow of Your Smile", "Honeysuckle Rose", "Stars Fell On Alabama" medley with "Georgia", "How Deep Is Your Love", "Satin Doll"

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