Hammond Report September 28 2020 from Pandemic Quarantino - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about playing the kickoff set for Summer in with my band 'Jon Hammond Funk Unit' formation with trombone, tenor saxophone, congas & percussion, Louis "Flip" Winfield drums and yours truly Jon Hammond at the organ, my tune "Head Phone" - and some current events as we kick off a heavy week here - stay safe and keep masking up in the pandemic folks! I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report,

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Hammond Report September 27 2020 from Pandemic Quarantino - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about the late great trumpeter Lou Colombo, I played on Lou's band for 2.5 years in Cape Cod MA in the Wychmere Harbor Club entertaining members and guests such as Tip O'Neill Speaker of The House and Mr. & Mrs. Lee Berk, founder of . Tragically Lou was killed in a car crash while driving home from a gig in Fort Myers FL just days after I visited him there. Enjoy this broadcast! I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report,

Hammond Report September 26 2020 from Pandemic Quarantino - Daily Music and stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about playing in the Five Spot Club inside the special where and recorded and stayed. We are playing in the same ballroom which was the scene of Fiorello La Guardia’s inaugural ball in 1938 - on the band, Alex Foster tenor sax, Chuggy Carter congas & percussion, Barry Finnerty guitar, Graham Hawthorne drums and yours truly Jon Hammond at the organ - I'm playing my XB-2 Hammond through my custom built Bill Beer Keyboard Products Leslie Speaker. Have a beautiful safe weekend folks, keep masking up in this pandemic! I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report,

Hammond Report September 25 2020 from Pandemic Quarantino - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about opening of the very first Music China in , I met the musicians from the official China Marching Band and amazingly some of their band instruments came from Indiana, the long way! That evening I played a jazz set with my friend Danny Woody and his combo in the and surprisingly I ran in to my friend Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco who I had just seen a few days earlier in San Francisco CA! Small world in music folks, stay safe out there - keep masking up and I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report,

Hammond Report September 23 2020 from Pandemic Quarantino - Daily Music and Stories from the organ player & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about playing one of my gigs in Lissania Essay on the Kaiser Strasse by the with my band playing original composition "Nu Funk" aka "Hip Hop Chitlins" with the late great funky drummer (long-time drummer Sons of Champlin) Barry Finnerty guitar, Al Wittig tenor and yours truly Jon Hammond at the XB-2 Hammond organ, and current events for today - stay safe out there folks and keep masking up in the pandemic! I'll be back tomorrrow with another Hammond Report - Jon Hammond