Saturday, September 29, 2007

LisaCast Meets HammondCast BlogTalkRadio


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Excerpted from LisaCast of BlogTalkRadio, LisaCast Meets HammondCast in Pyramind Studios San Francisco September 28 2007. Talking about the Global Community of Bloggers and Vloggers and using the new technologies available to reach people all over the world. Lisa Padilla is one of the cream of the crop of the new media community and now VP of Marketing for Alan Levy's BlogTalkRadio and Alan & Dave Winer's new TwitterGram + InformationColony. Jon Hammond is a musician and host of daily radio show HammondCast on KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM. Cam by JENNIFER ©2007 http://www.HammondCast.com + BlogTalkRadio.com

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Roy Meriwether on HammondCast Show KYOU Radio


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Pianist Composer and NEA Grant Recipient Roy Meriwether on Jon Hammond's HammondCast Show KYOU Radio 1550 AM. Jon and Roy talk about Roy's early start as a recording artist for Columbia Records as a teenager and coming to New York City from Dayton OH in 1976, pianos and early influences. Filmed in 3 Star Coffee Shop 541 Columbus Ave at 86th St. NYC.
Roy's site:
http://www.roymeriwether.biz/ ©2007 Jon Hammond http://www.HammondCast.com

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Hessen Report RTL TV Beatrix Rief plugs Jon Hammond 1991


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First lucky break for Jon Hammond in Frankfurt Germany appearing on Hessen Report RTL TV with big plug from moderator Beatrix Rief for upcoming shows at Jazzkeller. It was shot on a cold morning in Dec. 1991 in Venety's on Sandweg in Frankfurt. Special thanks: Beatrix Rief, Tino Pavlis, Frank Poehl http://www.HammondCast.com

Friday, September 14, 2007

Prototype XB-2 1st gig Matt DeMatt's Birthday June 27 1991 Spo-Dee-O-Dee Club


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Jon Hammond breaking out one of first 10 pieces of Hammond XB-2 organ, Paul Schaffer got one also, special thanks Glenn Derringer. For Matt DeMatt's Birthday Party Thurs. night June 27th 1991 Jon wheeled it down 10th Ave. to Spo-Dee-O-Dee Club in NYC. No keyboard stand yet even so put it up on 2 chairs back-to-back with the trio, Barry Finnerty gtr., Ray Grappone drums and Jon at XB-2 org doing a standard from The Jon Hammond Show TV Show "Pocket Funk". In the house were David Cone of NY Yankees and many Glitterati. Victoria on cowbell, good party! Matt has a club called Gaslight now in the Meat Packing District NY and Jon is host of daily radio show HammondCast on KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM ©2007 http://www.HammondCast.com

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Jon Hammond's Tribute to Joe Zawinul Mercy Mercy RIP 1932 - 2007


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Jon Hammond's Tribute to Joe Zawinul and good JZ joke!
Encore performance (Zugabe), ninth year Jon Hammond bringing the band in to play for an enthusiastic audience at Jazzkeller Hofheim in Taunus, in tribute to Cannonball Adderley and Joe Zawinul - Mercy Mercy with Hungarian tenor sax star Tony Lakatos, Heinz Lichius drums Joe Berger gtr. and Jon Hammond at the XB-2 Hammond organ. This session was during the annual Frankfurt Musikmesse trade fair ©2007 http://www.HammondCast.com

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Tribute to Victims of 9/11 Jon Hammond Band in Frankfurt


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Soul Music Tribute to Victims of 9/11 by Jon Hammond Band
TONY LAKATOS-tenor sax HEINZ LICHIUS-drums JOE BERGER-guitar JON HAMMOND-XB-2 Organ/Bass *at JAZZKELLER Frankfurt *Note: Special Thanks EUGEN HAHN-Jazzkeller *Camera by: JENNIFER "Tribute to 9/11" (Get Back in the Groove) composed by JON HAMMOND c)2007 JON HAMMOND Intl., Inc./ASCAP All Rights Reserved http://www.HammondCast.com

Tribute to Victims of 9/11 Jon Hammond Band in Frankfurt


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Soul Music Tribute to Victims of 9/11 by Jon Hammond Band
TONY LAKATOS-tenor sax HEINZ LICHIUS-drums JOE BERGER-guitar JON HAMMOND-XB-2 Organ/Bass *at JAZZKELLER Frankfurt *Note: Special Thanks EUGEN HAHN-Jazzkeller *Camera by: JENNIFER "Tribute to 9/11" (Get Back in the Groove) composed by JON HAMMOND c)2007 JON HAMMOND Intl., Inc./ASCAP All Rights Reserved http://www.HammondCast.com

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Heinz Lichius 1st NYC gig, JON HAMMOND Band Cleo's


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Heinz Lichius flew all the way from Hamburg Germany, cleared customs with his wife and baby daughter..checked in to Hotel Carter and got to the gig 40 minutes before the hit at Cleo's with Jon Hammond Band! Here they play Jon's theme song Late Rent for his long-running TV & Radio shows, next band up was Manny Duran (RIP) June 11, 1926 - October 30, 2006. Tim Armacost - tenor sax, Joe Berger - gtr, Heinz Lichius - drms, Jon Hammond - XB-2 organ as heard on HammondCast KYOU KYCY Radio 1550 AM ©2007 http://www.HammondCast.com "The FINGERS...are the SINGERS!"

Monday, September 03, 2007

Dan Hicks directing Lance Hughston Traffic at SUMMER OF LOVE 40th Anniversary


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Jon Hammond on the scene backstage at SUMMER OF LOVE 40th Anniversary. Watch Dan Hicks (of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks) doing a fine job of directing Event Producer Boots Hughston's twin brother Lance parking his van next to tour bus stageside. ©2007 http://www.HammondCast.com on KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM daily 4AM.
Here are the acts who appeared:
Country Joe McDonald, Moby Grape reunion, Taj Mahal, Lester and Willie Chambers (from Chambers Brothers), Canned Heat, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Jerry Miller Band (from Moby Grape) featuring Tiran Porter and Dale Ockerman (from the Doobie Brothers) and Fuzzy John Oxendine (from the Sons of Champlin) , Banana (from the Youngbloods), Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek (from the Doors), San Francisco’s First Family of Rock, Brian Auger, David Laflamme, Dickie Peterson of Blue Cheer, Chris and Lorin of the Rowan Brothers, The Alameda All Stars (from Gregg Allman band), Brad Jenkins, Terry Haggerty (from the Sons of Champlin), Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, George Michalski - Pete Sears “Dueling Keys,” Freddie Roulette , Ron Thompson , The Charlatans, Leigh Stephens (Blue Cheer), Greg Douglas (from Steve Miller), Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship), Essra Mohawk (from Mothers of Invention), Barry “The Fish” Melton, All Night Flight featuring David Denny and Steve McCarty (from Steve Miller), Jack King (from Cold Blood) Merl Saunders (supporting the event), Hair (reunion Original Cast), Squid B. Vicious with Buddy Miles, Jim Post (Friend and Lover, Siegel Schwall Blues Band), Charles Lewis – Harmonica, David Harris, Fayette Hauser and the Cocketts, Cindy Sheehan (political activist), Jack Hirschman (Poet Laureate of San Francisco), Scoop Nisker, Ben Vareen, Terence Hallinan (former SF DA) Ruth Weiss (Beat Poet), Richard Eastman (marijuana initiative), Lenore Kandel (Beat Poet), Paul “Lobster” Wells, Khenchen Rinpoche (Buddhist Monk), Dr Hip (Eugene Schoenfeld), Artie Kornfeild (Producer of Woodstock), Wavy Gravy, Mouse man (Bagpipes), David E. Smith (Haight Ashbury Medical Clinic), Bruce Latimer (Bruce Latimer show), Rabbi Joseph Langer, Bruce Barthol (Mime Troupe), Stephen Gaskin, Doug Green, Howard Hesseman, Benjamin Hernandez (Harts hands and Elders),American Indigenous people’s, Agnes Pilgrim and 13 Grandmas, Lakota War Ponys, Merle Tendoy (6th generation of Sacagawea) Shonie, Albert Tenaya, Harry Riverbottom (Chippewa), Chief Sunne Reyna, Iroquois Tribe, Dakota Tribe, Seminole Tribe, and Emit Powell and the Gospel Elites. (*more or less accurate..can not completely verify jh)

Saturday, September 01, 2007

Jon Hammond Presents: Star-a-Thon 1954 Historic Kinescope !


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This Is Your Lucky Day!
Jon Hammond Presents: Jon going deep in to his vault because he has decided the Public deserves to see this Historic Kinescope at Pantages in Los Angeles in 1954 of broadcast of Opening Night of Judy Garland's "A Star Is Born" More stars than there is room to write here: Liberace (and his Mom), Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Sophie Tucker, Dean Martin, Mason, studio head Jack Warner, and Jack Carson (MC), and dozens of A-list stars attending. This is Pt. 1, stay tuned to HammondCast, enjoy folks! Jon Hammond is Host & Producer of daily HammondCast Show on KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM, Host of The Jon Hammond Show on TV in New York for 24 years and touring internationally for many years as band leader and Jazz Ambassador Impresario of USA.