JON HAMMOND
*Jon is currently Host of daily CBS radio program HammondCast on KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM, 7 days a week at 4AM PST.
*Performing solo in Hospitals, Nursing Homes regularly. Bandleader for annual overseas dates for over 20 years.
*Musician: Jon Hammond is one of the premier B3 PLAYERS in the world. Played venues as diverse as Boston's "Combat Zone" in the striptease clubs during the '70's and the exclusive Wychmere Harbor Club in Cape Cod, where he was house organist with Lou Colombo.
Drummer extraordinaire STEPHEN FERRONE on Jon Hammond's daily radio program HammondCast Show on KYOURADIO. Steve Ferrone was in San Francisco to play the Outside Lands concert event with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. Here he speaks with Jon about current Gretsch drum kit, Sabian cymbals, previous bands including AWB, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, playing on Jon's Late Rent Sessions Dec. 1983 and studying music in Nice France...touching many points, always humorous and one of the top concert & studio drummers in the world. Check out Steve's own releases "It Up" & "More Head" http://www.drumrollrecords.comhttp://www.HammondCast.com
Bob Cunningham, Bass, Bernard Purdie, Jon Hammond, Local 802, Musicians Union, NDR Jazz, Late Rent, Mikell's, Jazz Foundation of America, Elmar Lemes, ASCAP Network, B3 organ, XK-3c, Blues, Funky, Rhonda Hamilton, WBGO
Jon Hammond is an endorsed artist of Hammond Suzuki USA Average White Band, Eric Clapton, Gretsch Drums, Hammond Organ HammondCast, Jon Hammond, Late Rent Sessions, Outside Lands, Stephen Ferrone, Steve Ferrone, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, XK-3c STEPHEN DOC KUPKA of Tower of Power on HammondCast Show KYOU Radio interview with Jon Hammond
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Bob Cunningham, Bass, Bernard Purdie, Jon Hammond, Local 802, Musicians Union, NDR Jazz, Late Rent, Mikell's, Jazz Foundation of America, Elmar Lemes, ASCAP Network, B3 organ, XK-3c, Blues, Funky, Rhonda Hamilton, WBGO
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Alex Ligertwood interview with Jon Hammond on HammondCast Show KYOU Radio *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE:
Bob Cunningham, Bass, Bernard Purdie, Jon Hammond, Local 802, Musicians Union, NDR Jazz, Late Rent, Mikell's, Jazz Foundation of America, Elmar Lemes, ASCAP Network, B3 organ, XK-3c, Blues, Funky, Rhonda Hamilton, WBGO
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Jon Hammond Intro:
Instruments: Organ, Accordion, Piano, Guitar
Attended: Berklee College of Music 1974, City College San Francisco
Languages: English, German
Jon is closely identified with the two main products of his career, the Excelsior Accordion and the Hammond Organ.