Hammond Report October 5 2020 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about appearing on my friend Harold Channer's cable TV show Conversations with Harold Hudson Channer in the studios of Manhattan Neighborhood Network - MNN we are both long-time producers on TV Producers of Manhattan Neighborhood Network [MNN] - I'm still trying to catch up with Harold, he is the longest running and I'm on every Friday night for 36.5 years with Jon Hammond Show - Music, Travel and Soft News. Stay safe out there everybody, keep masking up in this pandemic! I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report, Jon Hammond

"Music News Brought To You By Jon Hammond on CONVERSATIONS WITH HAROLD HUDSON CHANNER on MNNTV

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Hammond Report October 4 2020 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about playing a special place, Indra Club 64 aka Indra Musik Club where The Beatles player their first gigs in Hamburg Germany. The stage is about the same as it was in 1960, my friend Orhan Sandikci is the owner - we did a multi-media night with the art of Michael August aka ILLUSTRATORP. Also my friend Günter Zint the renowned photographer came and covered us for a piece about Hamburg Sound. Musicians: Lutz Büchner tenor saxophone, greatly missed long-time member of NDR Bigband, Heinz Lichius drums, Joe Berger guitar and yours truly Jon Hammond at the organ. Current events breaking news, thanks for joining me folks - stay safe out there and keep masking up in public during the pandemic! c u tomorrow for another Hammond Report,

Jon Hammond 

Hammond Report October 3 2020 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about playing with the boys in good old Jazzkeller in Frankfurt, Germany my tune "No X-Cess Baggage Blues" and current events, Coronavirus comes to the White House, yikes! On the band, Joe Berger guitar, Giovanni Totò Gulino drums, the tenor saxophonist Peter Klohmann and yours truly Jon Hammond at the organ - big shout out to my friend Bert Gerecht for a speedy recovery from a big procedure, he's back home in his haus now I just heard from him. Stay safe everybody, keep masking up in the pandemic and I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report,

Hammond Report October 2 2020 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist and accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about playing a very special concert in Duo Formation with my good friend Koei Tanaka in the Suzuki Musical Instruments Factory and World Headquarters for the Suzuki Team and my dear friend Waichiro Tachikawa aka 'Tachi' invited me and introduced me to Mr. Manji Suzuki the Founder and Chairman of Suzuki Musical Instruments Co. Ltd. in Hamamatsu.Japan - very sadly Manji Suzuki passed on recently "Manji Suzuki, chairman and founder of Suzuki Musical Instrument, died peacefully at the age of 97 on August 21.��" So I would like to dedicate this Hammond Report in memory of Mr. Suzuki today. 

Sincerely,

Hammond Report October 1 2020 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist and accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about playing in North Beach San Francisco, California at Grant & Green Saloon with my organ combo, just after my 2nd album "Hammond's Bolero" came out and was in Tower Records nearby where I had a big release party and concert. I was playing my organ through my old 1965 Fender Twin Reverb with factory JBL speakers that used to belong to John McFee of the Doobie Brothers when he was in Clover and Flying Circus. Covering current events on this first day of October, stay safe and keep wearing your masks in this pandemic folks! I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report,

Jon Hammond