Hammond Report January 23 2021 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about playing Hammond B3 with funky Bernard Purdie and the late great David "Fathead" Newman in Zanzaibar & Grill on 3rd Avenue next to Sarge's Deli, funkiest Bernard clip you've ever seen attention drummers and Funk Heads! We say a very sad goodbye to Larry King today, 86 years old. And big congratulations to Cindy Blackman Santana and Nancy Wilson guitarist and backing vocalist in the rock band Heart for their "She Rock Awards" last night, part of the Virtual ! Tune me in every Friday night on and - have a beautiful weekend folks, join me tomorrow for another Hammond Report,

*special thanks shooting the PV-431D camera!

Hammond Report January 22 2021 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about TGIF, thanks god it's Friday! Playing my tune here "Head Phone" in the famous defunct Jazz Kneipe in and commentary about breaking news and it's the 2nd day of , the virtual really great! I'm on TV tonight, 37 years tune in on ch. 1 - have a beautiful weekend everybody, come back tomorrow for another Hammond Report,

Hammond Report January 21 2021 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about live in-studio Radio Broadcast on hosted by Margie Glatt, at the controls - organ trio performance of my composition "Lydia's Tune" in honor of our new inaugurated & VP Kamala Harris, taking back control of and AFN Radio, yes! Big shout out to my friends , and for support on this special gig, we are playing through Tino's Roland Cube amp with 12" speaker - handling both my Hammond XB-2 organ and Barry's guitar! Around one big tube microphone going out with 150,000 big watts at 873 kHz on the dial prime time middle of the afternoon! It's virtual , so join us over there folks - my friend Betty Heywood Namm's Director of International Affairs was on with Joe Lamond today, she gets the JH award for delivering the most WPM! Some great music and workshops, kudos to NAMM Team! Stay safe folks and join me tomorrow for another Hammond Report,

Jon Hammond

*Note: the late great drums, long-time drummer of Sons of Champlin, guitar and yours truly at the organ

Hammond Report January 20 2021 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about playing my traditional Sunday Session at the

NAMM Show

and we're just kicking off the virtual

Believe in Music Week

on this Historic Day, I'm very happy to report it's a done deal,

President Joe Biden

and Vice President Kamala Harris are sworn in! I shot some pictures off the TV, I woke up to

Lady Gaga

singing the National Anthem, she hit it out of the park and there were many touching moments - a images on my report today, and we get on down in the Spirit of Chicago's

The Buckinghams

mercy mercy mercy with my friends

Koei Tanaka

,

Joe Berger

,

Swiss Chris

,

Scott May

and yours truly

Jon Hammond

at the Sk1 Hammond organ in the Hammond Suzuki stand - have a beautiful safe day folks and come back tomorrow for another Hammond Report,

Jon Hammond

Hammond Report January 19 2021 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about my tune "Remembering Stanley" on the radio, thanks

Chris Ridm King Cortez

! Stanley Turrentine remembered of course - and only a little less than one day to go until the big Presto-Change-O folks, much awaited! Big kudos to

Laura Benanti

for her piece on

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

last night! That was fantastic! Big shout out to

Jerry McNutt

Speaker Engineer at

Eminence Speaker LLC

- go on the Virtual

NAMM Show

Believe in Music Week

Namm Heads! Stay safe and come back tomorrow for another Hammond Report,

Jon Hammond

Hammond Report January 18 2021 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about waiting for a very important call to go play on a session with Geoff Palmer, original founding member of Marin County band Sons of Champlin in his studio with a synthesizer, lay down a groove - Sons' drummer was in the room - it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day folks, remembering the late great MLK! Stay safe and come back tomorrow for another Hammond Report,

Hammond Report January 17 2021 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about playing a Sunday Session at the in the saxophones stand with alto saxophonist on his System 76 alto, playing one of my favorite standards Easy Living. It's been exactly one year since I played live at the last NAMM, we're getting ready for the "NAMM Believe in Music Namm 2021" virtual Namm Show, join us on there and every day for my daily Hammond Reports - and stay safe out there everybody, better times just ahead!

Jon Hammond