Monday, September 05, 2016

Stratus at The Gibson Party! Billy Cobham Joe Berger Doug Wimbish filmed by Jon Hammond

#WATCHMOVIE HERE: Stratus at The Gibson Party! Billy Cobham Joe Berger Doug Wimbish filmed by Jon Hammond Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondBillyCOBHAMDougWIMBISHJoeBERGERonHammondCast Views 534 #534 Youtube https://youtu.be/we6YBMzK3Z0 15,357 views #1537 Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Topics Impromptu, Billy Cobham, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Joe Berger, Jon Hammond, Doug Wimbish, Living Colour, HammondCast, KYOU KYCY Radio Billy COBHAM Doug WIMBISH Joe BERGER on HammondCast This Impromptu Jam with 3 greats BILL COBHAM, DOUG WIMBISH & JOE BERGER happened at Gibson Guitar Party in Frankfurt Germany, captured by Jon Hammond originally shown on The Jon Hammond Show *24th year NYC. COBHAM born May 16, 1944 in Panama, is one of the world's best and most influential drummers known for his jazz fusion in the 1970s, with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, where he pioneered a powerful style of drumming with jazz, rock and funk influences has an enormous Discography. WIMBISH (born September 22, 1956) is a bass player, primarily known for his studio work for the rap/hip hop label Sugarhill Records and his membership of the band Living Colour. He has played for a vast range of artists, among which Jeff Beck, Mick Jagger, Madonna, George Clinton, Depeche Mode, and Mos Def. Wimbish is considered to be a pioneer in hip hop bass playing. BERGER has engineered mixed and mastered thousands of recordings and played with John Entwistle of THE WHO and member of JON HAMMOND Band. Seen here playing a special Gibson LES PAUL, whom (Les) Joe has also worked with and Paul has appeared on Hammond's long-running cable tv show in NYC. Enjoy! ©2007 JH INTL *Info: http://www.HammondCast.com Producer Jon Hammond 512KB MPEG4 download download 1 file MPEG4 download download 1 file OGG VIDEO download download 1 file TORRENT download download 19 Files download 5 Original SHOW ALL

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Drummer/Bandleader extraordinaire BILL COBHAM interview with Jon Hammond on Jon's daily CBS Radio program HammondCast "Jon Hammond's Afternoon Slide" on KYOU Radio and KYCY. This interview took place in New York City during the IAJE jazz educators convention with some very special events celebrating French Jazz Musicians, 2 of the top French Jazz stars came to play on Bill's band: DIDIER LOCKWOOD violin SYLVAN LUC guitar along with VICTOR BAILEY on bass. Visit Bill Cobham's official website: www.billycobham.com and © www.HammondCast.com (be sure to check out BC's extensive discography!) Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondBLUESINTHEMOSCOWWHITENIGHTSJONHAMMOND_1 Views 534 #534 Youtube https://youtu.be/-34rP08PwrY 12,723 views #12723 Most of the day I stayed in the room practicing my instrument and looking out at Red Square. Jennifer and I wanted to get to the club early so that we could get a sound check and settle in. Faina picked us up and we stuffed my organ and all our equipment in her compact car and off we went to Le Club in the Taganka Theatre Building. When we arrived the big friendly doormen picked up my heavy cases like they were toothpicks and brought them up the stairs for me! Vladimir the sound engineer for the club was very smooth and professional, and a very nice guy. We got a good sound on the organ and then came Eduard Zizak the great drummer! I had already met Eduard in New York the week before when he was there performing with Igor's quartet at Birdland. Eduard is an incredible drummer and also a very nice guy. We made a little soundcheck and right away I could tell that he had listened to my music and we would lock up with some very tight grooves...no problem! But where was Igor? I was hoping for a little mini-rehearsel with Igor but when I saw the public coming in to have dinner I knew it was too late for that! Igor arrived with his entourage and it was great to see him...he told me not to worry and apologised for not coming earlier. Igor is in big demand with a very busy schedule, so I am very lucky and honored that he could take the time to perform with me together even as his new cd album "Prophecy" was just released on the Universal Label. We had time only for a 5 minute soundcheck and I showed Igor my book. This was going to be a very spontaneous performance, no doubt about it! We decided to record it, and Vladimir did a fantastic job on the recording on their new digital recording console that they had just brought back from New York. From the first notes I knew that this would be one of those magic nights I would never forget. The response from the audience was wonderful. I could only say in Russsian, "Ya LuBlu Vas"...which means, I love you all. And when I said the words to the people I got a great feeling back from them. First set was just fine and then on the break I was introduced to many press people and some fantastic local musicians. I was very honored that they all came to greet me. And then Igor proudly introduced me to 2 of the legendary jazz musicians of Moscow-accordionist Vladimir Danilin and guitarist Alexei Kuznezov. They said they had their instruments in the car and so yes we decided right away to make a live session together. It was incredible from the first song on the 2nd set, playing together with these fantastic Moscow musicians! It felt like we had been playing together for 20 years. These musicians are some of the greatest I have ever heard and played together with. The audience was loving every bit of it, just as much as I! I was so happy that Vladimir was getting it all on tape and Jennifer was also running the video machine and taking pictures also. By the end of the night I was very satisfied with how everything went. Igor personally drove Jennifer and I back to the hotel in his nice car with fantastic sound system. Great night! Producer Jon Hammond 512KB MPEG4 download download 1 file MPEG4 download download 1 file OGG VIDEO download download 1 file TORRENT Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Topics Vladimir Danilin, Eduard Zizak, President Putin, Alexander Putin, Jazz, Igor Butman, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, HammondCast, KYCY, KYOU Radio Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondBirdlandLydia_sTuneJonHammondBand Missing man formation - very sadly, Lutz Büchner still on the band here - happy night in BIrldand Hamburg! - Jon Hammond L to R Lutz, Jon, Joe, Heinz Lydia's Tune: 
Lutz Büchner tenor saxophone, Heinz Lichius drums
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Jon Hammond organ, return engagement here at Birdland with many friends in the house. - Gärtnerstr. 122 Hamburg Eimsbuttel NDR release: https://www.ndr.de/orchester_chor/bigband/band/Trauer-um-Lutz-Buechner,buechner146.html Stand: 12.03.2016 15:00 Uhr - Lesezeit: ca.4 Min. Trauer um Lutz Büchner "Lutz Büchner wurde 47 Jahre alt. Der Saxofonist Lutz Büchner ist am 11. März während einer Japan-Tour der NDR Bigband im Alter von 47 Jahren an den Folgen eines Herzinfarkts verstorben. Es war ein großes Glück für die NDR Bigband, den Menschen und Musiker Lutz Büchner seit 22 Jahren in ihren Reihen zu haben. Er war ein grandioser, ein wahrhaft bedeutender Saxofonist mit einer unverkennbaren, einzigartigen Spielweise, die selbst dem ältesten und schon oft gehörten Jazzstandard immer wieder neue Seiten abgewinnen konnte. Vor allem aber brachte er auch seine Persönlichkeit in die Band ein: seinen Humor, sein ausgeglichenes Temperament und sein großes Interesse an allen Dingen des Lebens, das weit über die Musik hinaus reichte. Lutz Büchner war ein echter Teamplayer, vor und hinter den Kulissen. Knuth: "Er lebte leidenschaftlich für und mit Musik" Joachim Knuth, NDR Programmdirektor Hörfunk: "Die Nachricht vom Tod Lutz Büchners macht mich sehr betroffen. Ich habe ihn als einen liebenswürdigen Menschen erlebt, der leidenschaftlich mit und für Musik lebte. Lutz Büchner hatte den Jazz im Blut. Er liebte den spielerischen Umgang mit der Musik, die Improvisation. Der Tod dieses beeindruckenden Saxofonisten ist für die NDR Bigband, für den NDR, ein großer Verlust. Meine Gedanken sind in diesen Stunden bei der Familie und den Freunden Lutz Büchners." Fasziniert von Miles Davis Lutz Büchner wurde am 5. August 1968 in Bremen geboren. Er interessierte sich schon früh für Musik, bekam klassischen Klarinettenunterricht und entdeckte als Teenager nach einem Konzertbesuch den Jazz. Als er den Trompeter Miles Davis hörte, faszinierte ihn die Möglichkeit, sich auch jenseits der geschrieben Noten auf eine ganz persönliche Weise ausdrücken zu können. Dieser improvisierten, sich immer neu erfindenden Musik wollte er sich widmen. Lutz Büchner kam nach Hamburg und studierte Saxofon bei Herb Geller, dem damals bekanntesten Solisten der NDR Bigband. Schon bald spielte er dort im Saxofonsatz - zunächst als Gast, seit 1994 als festes Mitglied. In den Mittelpunkt zog es ihn, den eher besonnen Menschen, dabei nicht so sehr. Aber wenn das Scheinwerferlicht auf ihn zeigte und er zum Solo ansetzte, dann entwickelte sein Spiel eine ganz besondere Wirkung: Mit geschlossenen Augen stand er da, die Töne flossen ebenso überraschend wie logisch aus seinem Instrument, sein ganzer Körper schien sich dabei in Musik zu verwandeln. In seinem Spiel steckte besondere Tiefe Viele Gäste der NDR Bigband haben ihn und sein Spiel so erlebt und geschätzt: Jazzgrößen wie Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin, João Bosco, Omar Sosa oder Abdullah Ibrahim genossen es, wenn Lutz Büchner neben ihnen spielte. Der Amerikaner Dale Wilson widmete ihm und seinem Saxofon-Kollegen Fiete Felsch eine ganze Big-Band-Suite, und die Komponistin Maria Schneider wollte ihn nach einem Besuch bei der NDR Bigband am liebsten gleich nach New York mitnehmen. Es waren nicht nur seine technischen Fertigkeiten und seine nahezu grenzenlosen Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten, mit denen Lutz Büchner so begeisterte. In seinem Spiel steckte eine besondere Tiefe. "Es ist sein Sound", sagte Maria Schneider einmal, "Lutz berührt mich." Solistische Höhenflüge und zarte Lyrik In der Improvisation spiegelt sich ja immer der ganze Mensch. So konnte Lutz Büchner auf dem Tenorsaxofon unendlich packend, mitreißend und kraftvoll spielen. Unvergessen ist sein solistischer Höhenflug in der Duke-Ellington-Hommage "Diminuendo, crescendo and crescendissimo in blue", in der er minutenlang ein loderndes Feuer immer neu entfachte, bis die Zuschauer bei einem Auftritt der NDR Bigband in New York am Schluss buchstäblich aus den Sitzen gerissen wurden. Seine andere, lyrische Seite war besonders stark auf der Klarinette zu hören, auf der er zu den außergewöhnlichsten Stimmen des modernen Jazz zählte, vielleicht sogar weltweit. Intim und zart, wie gehaucht schwebten die Töne in die Luft, jeder von ihnen hatte Bedeutung. Nicht nur in der NDR Bigband, auch in eigenen Formationen waren sein ausgeprägtes Spiel und seine ausgefeilten Kompositionen zu hören. Mit seinem Quartett (mit Sandra Hempel, Heinz Lichius und Pepe Berns) trat Lutz Büchner 2005 bei den 2. Hamburger Jazztagen in der Kampnagel-Fabrik auf. Im selben Jahr entstand mit dem Trio Connex (mit Björn Lücker und Philipp Steen) ein gleichnamiges Album, und 2006 erschien seine vielbeachtete, von der Kritik hochgelobte CD "Ring". "Mein Ziel ist es", hat Lutz Büchner einmal gesagt, "ganz im Moment zu spielen." Wir verdanken ihm viele unvergessliche Momente. Mit ihm verlieren wir einen lieben Menschen, einen großen Künstler und einen wunderbaren Kollegen. Stefan Gerdes Redaktion NDR Bigband/Jazzredaktion Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/48MinuteDocumentaryJazzMovieBigBandWithOrganistJonHammond Youtube https://youtu.be/2mcykc-OHTg Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics Big Band, Jazz Orchestra, Meetinghouse, Todd Anderson, Bob Rosen, Jon Hammond, Hammond Organ, B3, Sk1, Funky Jazz, Sight Readers, AFM Musicians Union, Greater New York, Local 802, ASCAP Composer Photographs courtesy of Elmar Lemes 48 minute Documentary movie of Tuesday night session at Friends Seminary School in Manhattan, 5 original compositions! "Head Phone" by Jon Hammond arranged by Todd Anderson "Lydia's Tune" by Jon Hammond arranged by Todd Anderson "Late Rent" by Jon Hammond arranged by Todd Anderson "Pocket Funk" by Jon Hammond arranged by Todd Anderson "Have a Nice Day Blues" by Todd Anderson arranged by Todd Anderson *Note: Tenor Saxophonist Arranger Todd Anderson was Jon Hammond's teacher for Arranging and Compostion at Berklee College of Music in Boston MA in 1973. 10 years later they recorded this music for TV Show "The Jon Hammond Show" still on TV every week for 32 years, the recording session went down at Intergalactic Recording Studios where John Lennon did some of his last recording dates. The big band here is presided over by Professor Bob Rosen in charge of the music program at Friends Seminary School on Manhattan's East Side, 230 year old school K - 12th grade. Top sight reading musicians gather weekly - more info: http://www.HammondCast.com ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP / BMI Producer Jon Hammond Language English Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondsMusikmesseWarmUpPartyJazzkeller FB Note: https://www.facebook.com/notes/jon-hammond-band/best-party-of-the-year-jon-hammonds-annual-musikmesse-warm-up-party-in-jazzkelle/1107482975950736 Stratus, Billy Cobham, Gibson Party, Joe Berger, Jon Hammond, #Gibson #Stratus #Cobham #Musikmesse #NAMMShow #HammondOrgan

Party Time! Jon Hammond's annual musikmesse Warm Up Party Opening

#WATCHMOVIE HERE: Party Time! Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondJonHammondBandannualMusikmesseWarmUpParty2013Blues Views 290 #290 Youtube https://youtu.be/zQBZ1N-xq9Y 262 views #262 Jon Hammond Band Musikmesse Warm Up Party 2013 Blues
MY HOME AWAY FROM HOME
 Jon Hammond zum 27. Mal auf der Musikmesse
Nomen est omen. Der Mann heißt Hammond und spielt eine Hammond. Der Organist aus New York freut sich auf Frankfurt und lädt zur Musikmesse Warm Up Party am 9.4. in den Jazzkeller Jon Hammond Music Travel and Soft News http://minicasts.podomatic.com/play/1030803/8180711 By Jon Hammond's Podcast 3m 46s - 
JOURNAL FRANKFURT: Was war für Sie zuerst da - die Frankfurter Musikmesse oder Auftritte im Jazzkeller?
Jon Hammond: Die Musikmesse. Ich kam 1987 zum ersten Mal nach Frankfurt, zusammen mit Joe Berger, der auf der Messe für Engl Amplifiers spielte. Wir flogen mit der Lufthansa ein und teilten uns ein Zimmer im berühmten Prinz Otto Hotel am Hauptbahnhof. Schon in der ersten Nacht stellte mir Joe den großen John Entwistle, den Bassisten von The Who vor. Es wurde eine lange Nacht, in der wir Cognac tranken und Erdnüsse knabberten in eiern Suite des Marriott Hotels. Ich habe Joe bei einer Session mit John und Ringo Starrs Sohn Zak Starkey im Dorian Grey Club gefilmt bei einer Soundcheck Party. In den ersten paar Jahren spielte ich nicht oft live weil ich noch keine transportierbare Hammond Orgel hatte vor 1991 als ich den Prototyp einer XB-2 Hammond Orgel bekam mit der ich dann um die Welt reiste. Hauptsächliche dokumenierte ich aber die Messe für meine Cable TV Show in New York, die inzwischen im 29. Jahr als The Jon Hammond Show -- Music, Travel and Soft News präsentiert. Die harten Nachrichten überlasse ich CNN und den großen Networks (lacht). Vom ersten Jahr an fühlten wir uns der Musikmesse eng verbunden, haben seitdem eine tolle Zeit hier, kommen jedes Jahr wieder bis wir kleine, alte Männer sind.

Das Jazzkeller-Konzert am Vorabend der Musikmesse ist zu einer netten Tradition geworden - wie kam es dazu, was bedeutet es Ihnen und wir werden Sie dieses Jahr diesen Abend im Jazzkeller zelebrieren?
Ab 1991 lernte ich mehr und mehr Musikmesse-Menschen kennen und die mich und auch einiges von meiner Musik. Einige von ihnen ermunterten mich, doch auch für Auftritte nach Deutschland zu kommen weil es hier doch ein Interesse an Hammond-Orgel-Groove-Music gab. Mit der schon erwähnten, kleinen, kompakten aber sehr kraftvollen Orgel war das alles möglich. Zudem machte ich in New York gerade eine schwere Zeit durch, mein Vater war gestorben und ich hatte das Gefühl, einige Veränderungen könnten meinem Leben gut tun. Also kam ich nach Frankfurt mit meiner XB-2, allerdings mit einem Rückflugticket falls etwas schief gehen würde. Ich rief viele Musiker an, ließ sie wissen, ich bin jetzt da, lasst uns zusammen spielen. Das war für mich der Anfang einer langen, sehr speziellen Beziehung, vor allem zum Frankfurter Publikum nach ersten kleinen erfolgen im Jazzkeller und einer kurzen Auftritt im Hessen Report im Fernsehen. Beatrix Rief verdanke ich dieses "lucky light on me", eine tolle Erfahrung. Seitdem nenne ich Frankfurt "My Good Luck City" und im Jazzkeller begann auch alles für mich als Musiker. Deshalb liegt mir der Club auch so nah am Herzen, deshalb hatte ich auch die Idee, meine "Musikmesse Warm Up Party" dort zu realisieren, immer in der Nacht bevor die Messe startet was zu einer schönen Tradition wurde. Im ersten Jahr, in dem ich dann auch ein wenig Sponsoring von Philip Morris bekam, konnte ich damit einige Flugtickets für befreundete Musik bezahlen. Darüber war ich sehr glücklich. Dabei rauche ich selbst gar nicht. 
Für ein wenig Promotion für die Musikmesse. Wir nannten das Programm für die AFN "Profile TV "-Show "Sound Police". Wir hatten viel Spaß. Kein Wunder also, dass ich Frankfurt als my home away from home begreife und ich mich jedes Mal wieder freue zur Musikmesse zu reisen, in diesem Jahr übrigens zum 27. Mal in Folge. Und ich bin diesmal besonders aufgeregt, heim nach Frankfurt zu kommen weil ich gerade 60 Jahre alt geworden bin.

Wer wird in diesem Jahr zum Gelingen des Konzertes mit teils komponierter, teils improvisierter Musik, so nehme ich an, beitragen und was für einen Sound wird die Band präsentieren?
Ich habe etwa 90% der Kompositionen geschrieben, die wir spielen werden. Es ist die Musik, die man auch in meiner New Yorker TV-Show hören kann und die mich mehrmals um die Welt getragen hat. Meinen Stil nenne ich "Swinging Funky Jazz and Blues" und featurert die ganz wunderbaren Solisten in meine Band: Tony Lakatos, den großen ungarischen Tenorsaxophonisten, der auch Mitglied in der hr Bigband ist, dann meinen alten Freund Totó Giovanni Gulino, diesen tollen Schlagzeuger, Und das unterziehe ich jetzt einen echten Härttest (lacht).
27. März 2013 Interview: Detlef Kinsler
http://www.jonhammondband.com — with Tony Lakatos, Joe Berger, Totó Giovanni Gulino, Pmauriat Albest, Jon Hammond Band and P Mauriat HQ at Jazzkeller.. Podomatic http://minicasts.podomatic.com/play/1030803/8180711 Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondBand2ndSetAfterBirthdayCakeBreak Youtube https://youtu.be/o2--TIC-frk Vimeo https://vimeo.com/166375459 Facebook video https://www.facebook.com/hammondcast/videos/10153459987517102/ Note from Jon Hammond Video: Tino Pavlis​ https://www.facebook.com/notes/jon-hammond-band/best-party-of-the-year-jon-hammonds-annual-musikmesse-warm-up-party-in-jazzkelle/1107482975950736 Best Party of The Year! Jon Hammond’s annual musikmesse​ Warm Up Party in Jazzkeller​ Tuesday April 5th 2016 celebrating 30 years Jon Hammond​ – organ Joe Berger​ – guitar Peter Klohmann​ – saxophone Giovanni Totò Gulino​ – drums Mr. Hammond has toured worldwide since 1991 using the incredible Sk1 organ by Hammond Suzuki..™ “Classic Hammond Sound…In A Suitcase!” The Jon Hammond Show is a funky swinging instrumental revue, featuring top international soloists. The show has universal appeal. Big Hammond orgel sound – 100% organic - Jon's birthday cake by Saray Pastanesi​ Jon Hammond Band​ Frankfurt to Nashville With Detour to Hollywood Musikmesse ASCAP Expo Summer NAMM Show http://kernelpanichammondcast.blogspot.com/2016/05/frankfurt-to-nashville-with-detour-to.html Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/TinosHammondOrgan80thAnniversaryFilmDocumentaryTrailer CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1263982 Youtube https://youtu.be/2AX5CRnBWkA Producer Tino's Hammond Organ 80th Anniversary Film Documentary Trailer: Tino Pavlis - by Jon Hammond Published August 13, 2015 Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics Hammond Organs, 80th Anniversary Hammond Organ, Tino Pavlis, Producer, Co-Producer, Joe Berger, Jon Hammond, NAMM Show, musikmesse, Suzuki Musical Instruments, Hamamatsu, B3, New B3mk2, Sk1, #HammondOrgan #80thAnniversary Tino's Hammond Organ 80th Anniversary Film Documentary Trailer with cameo appearances Michael Falkenstein, Joe Berger, Jon Hammond, Shuji Suzuki and Suzuki Musical Instuments Hammond Organ Team, Bernie Capicchiano Bernies Music Land Australia Hammond Distributor, Jon Hammond's annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in world famous historic jazzkeller Frankfurt - Outro music "Organ Meets Bigband" Jon Hammond with Landesjugendjazzorchester LaJazzO MV orchestra - Director/Producer: Tino Pavlis, co-producer Joe Berger http://www.HammondCast.com Producer Jon Hammond Language English Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/OrganMeetsBigbandRostockKlostergarten Party Time, Musikmesse Frankfurt, Jon Hammond, #jazzkeller #annualparty #musikmesse #HammondOrgan

Bernard Pretty Purdie Dedicates Set To His Children Phyllis and Anthony in the house Mikell's Jon Hammond Band

#WATCHMOVIE HERE: Bernard Pretty Purdie Dedicates Set To His Children Jon's archive Bernard Pretty Purdie Dedicates Set To His Children Phyllis and Anthony in the house Mikell's Jon Hammond Band aka Jon Hammond & The Late Rent Session Men https://archive.org/details/BernardPurdieDedicationToHisKidsLateRentCloserAtMikells Views 534 #534 Youtube https://youtu.be/B5qGwUgEyvM 181 views #181 New York NY -- Flashback to August 1989 - Studio drummer Bernard Purdie takes the microphone on last set at Mikell's with Jon Hammond and The Late Rent Session Men band to dedicate the performance to his children Phyllis and Anthony. Theme song for the long-running cable TV program The Jon Hammond Show "Late Rent" original composition with Jon Hammond at his 1959 B3 organ Bernard Purdie drums Chuggy Carter percussion Alex Foster alto saxophone Barry Finnerty guitar *Note: This historic clip is photographic proof that the actual location of Mikell's was 760 Columbus Avenue at 97th and not 808 Columbus as the current Whole Foods near the old location claims, highly interesting! This is some of the rare surviving footage from Mikell's, in the house that night all night long was Hugh Masekela, Cornell Dupree and many musicians as Mikell's was the traditional hang for all New York Studio Musicians until it's closing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikell's As seen on The Jon Hammond Show cable TV program now in 34th year Camera: Joe Berger http://www.HammondCast.com mikell's bernard purdie late rent jon hammond b3 organ local 802 musicians union studio session men Run time 14 minutes 29 seconds Producer Jon Hammond Audio/Visual sound, color H.264 download download 1 file MPEG4 download download 1 file OGG VIDEO download download 1 file TORRENT download download 37 Files download 4 Original SHOW ALL by Jon Hammond Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics mikell's, bernard purdie, late rent, jon hammond, b3 organ, local 802, musicians union, studio session men Bernard's wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Purdie " Bernard Purdie Tyrone Smith and Bernard Purdie.jpg Purdie (right) with saxophonist Tyrone Smith, 2009 Background information Birth name Bernard Lee Purdie Also known as Bernard "Pretty" Purdie Mississippi Bigfoot Born June 11, 1941 (age 75) Elkton, Maryland, U.S. Genres Rock, R&B, Funk, Soul Occupation(s) Musician Instruments Drums Years active 1958–present Labels A&M, Atco, EMI, Capitol Associated acts James Brown, Jeff Beck, Hummingbird, Steely Dan, Aretha Franklin, Gil Scott-Heron, King Curtis, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Randy Brecker, Quincy Jones, Hall & Oates, Isaac Hayes, Cat Stevens, Hair, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (soundtrack) Website www.bernardpurdie.com Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1941) is an American groove drummer, and is considered an influential and innovative funk musician.[1] He is known for his precise musical time keeping[2] and his signature use of triplets against a half-time backbeat: the "Purdie Shuffle."[3] He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.[4] Purdie recorded Soul Drums (1968) as a band leader and although he went on to record Alexander's Ragtime Band, the album remained unreleased until Soul Drums was reissued on CD in 2009 with the Alexander's Ragtime Band sessions. Other solo albums include Purdie Good (1971), Soul Is ... Pretty Purdie (1972) and the soundtrack for the blaxploitation film Lialeh (1973). In the mid-1990s he was a member of The 3B's, with Bross Townsend and Bob Cunningham. Contents [hide] 1 Biography 2 Encounter Records 3 Drumming style 4 Discography 4.1 As leader/co-leader 4.2 As sideman 5 References 6 Bibliography 7 External links Biography[edit] At an early age Purdie began hitting cans with sticks and learned the elements of drumming techniques from overhearing lessons being given by Leonard Heywood. He later took lessons from Heywood and played in Heywood's big band. Purdie's other influences at that time were Papa Jo Jones, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Joe Marshall, Art Blakey,[5] as well as Cozy Cole, Sticks Evans, Panama Francis, Louis Bellson, and Herbie Lovelle.[6] In 1961 he moved from his home town of Elkton, Maryland, to New York. In order to be able to obtain a licence to perform in public (minimum age 21), Purdie claimed he was born in 1939, while in fact he was born in 1941. There he played sessions with Mickey and Sylvia and regularly visited the Turf Club on 50th and Broadway, where musicians, agents, and promoters met and touted for business. It was during this period that he played for the saxophonist Buddy Lucas (musician), who nicknamed him 'Mississippi Bigfoot'. Eventually Barney Richmond contracted him to play session work.[5] In a 1978 interview, Purdie claimed to have added drum overdubs to "several [tracks] of the Beatles' Hamburg recording" with Tony Sheridan,[7] including "Ain't She Sweet", "Take Out Some Insurance on Me Baby" and "Sweet Georgia Brown",[8] to give them a punchier sound for the US market.[9] Purdie was contracted by arranger Sammy Lowe to play a session with James Brown in 1965 and recording session records also show that Purdie played on "Ain't That A Groove"[10] at the same session.[5] This was one of several sessions he played with Brown and the track "Kansas City" from Brown's album Cold Sweat (1967), displays one of the most sophisticated and driving shuffles recorded for Brown's catalogue. Purdie is also credited on the albums Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud (1969)[11] and Get on the Good Foot (1972).[12] Purdie started working with Aretha Franklin as musical director in 1970 and held that position for five years,[1] as well as drumming for Franklin's opening act, King Curtis and The King Pins. In 1970 he performed with both bands at the Fillmore West; the resulting live recordings were released as Aretha Live at the Fillmore West (1971) and King Curtis's Live at Fillmore West (1971).[13] His best known track with Franklin was "Rock Steady",[14] on which he played what he described as "a funky and low down beat". Of his time with Franklin he once commented that "backing her was like floating in seventh heaven".[5] Purdie was credited on the soundtrack album for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) and more recently he was the drummer for the 2009 Broadway revival of Hair and appeared on the associated Broadway cast recording.[15] Purdie has been a resident of New Jersey, living in Edison, Teaneck and Springfield Township.[16] Encounter Records[edit] In 1973 Purdie founded Encounter Records and released five albums EN 3000: Seldon Powell - Messin' With EN 3001: Sands of Time - Profile (with Jimmy Owens, Garnett Brown) EN 3002: East Coast - East Coast (with Larry Blackmon, Gwen Guthrie, Haras Fyre) EN 3003: Frank Owens - Brown N Serve (with Hugh McCracken) [17] EN 3004: Harold Vick as "Sir Edward" - The Power of Feeling Drumming style[edit] Purdie shuffle variants[18] About this sound Play (help·info). Purdie shuffle variant[19] About this sound Play (help·info). Purdie is known as a groove drummer with immaculate timing and makes use of precision half note, backbeats, and grooves.[2] Purdie's signature sixteenth note hi-hat lick pish-ship, pish-ship, pish-ship is distinct.[5] He often employs a straight eight groove sometimes fusing several influences such as swing, blues and funk. He created the now well-known drum pattern Purdie Half-Time Shuffle that is a blues shuffle variation with the addition of syncopated ghost notes on the snare drum.[19] Variations on this shuffle can be heard on songs such as Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain", The Police's Walking on the Moon, Death Cab For Cutie's "Grapevine Fires", and Toto's "Rosanna" (Rosanna shuffle).[19][20] Purdie's shuffle can be heard on Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters"[21] and "Home At Last".[19] Discography[edit] As leader/co-leader[edit] Soul Drums (Date, 1968) Purdie Good! (Prestige, 1971) [note: reissued as Legends Of Acid Jazz: Bernard Purdie in 1996] Stand by Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get) (Mega, 1971) -with The Playboys Soul Is... Pretty Purdie (Flying Dutchman, 1972) Shaft (Prestige, 1973) -recorded 1971 [note: reissued as Legends Of Acid Jazz: Bernard Purdie in 1996] Lialeh (Original Movie Soundtrack) (Bryan, 1974) Delights Of The Garden (Douglas/Celluloid, 1975) -with The Last Poets Purdie As A Picture (Kilmarnock, 1993) -with Galt MacDermot's New Pulse Jazz Band Coolin' 'N Groovin' (A Night At "On-Air") (Lexington/West 47th, 1993) Bernard Purdie's Jazz Groove Sessions In Toyko (Lexington/West 47th, 1993) After Hours With The 3B's (3B's Music #3B-001, 1993) Soothin' 'N Groovin' With The 3B's (3B's Music #3B-002, 1994) -with Houston Person The Hudson River Rats (3B's Music #3B-003, 1995) Fatback! The Jazz Funk Masters Featuring Bernard Purdie (Seven Seas, 1995) Kick 'N Jazz (Drum Beat Blocks, 1996) Soul To Jazz I (Act, 1996) -with The WDR Big Band Soul To Jazz II (Act, 1997) -with The WDR Big Band In The Pocket (P-Vine, 1997) Get It While You Can (3B's Music #3B-004, 1999) -with The Hudson River Rats Masters Of Groove Meet Dr. No (Jazzateria, 2000) -with Reuben Wilson, Grant Green Jr., Tarus Mateen King Of The Beat (3B's Music #3B-005, 2001) Purdie Good Cookin' (3B's Music #3B-006, 2003) -with Purdie's Powerhouse Godfathers Of Groove [this is their 2nd album] (18th & Vine, 2005) -with Reuben Wilson, Grant Green Jr., Jerry Jemmott [note: originally released as Masters Of Groove] Godfathers Of Groove 3 (18th & Vine, 2008) -with Reuben Wilson, Grant Green Jr., Bill Easley Jersey Blue (Running Rogue, 2009) -with Gene McCormick, Jack Hoban Selling It Like It Is (Cadence Jazz, 2013) -with David Haney; recorded 2009 As sideman[edit] Herbie Mann - Our Mann Flute (Atlantic, 1966) Jack McDuff - A Change Is Gonna Come (Atlantic, 1966) Freddie McCoy - Funk Drops (Prestige, 1966) Gábor Szabó - Jazz Raga (Impulse!, 1966) Benny Golson - Tune In, Turn On (Verve, 1967) James Brown - Cold Sweat (King, 1967) King Curtis & His Kingpins - Instant Soul (Atco, 1967) Nina Simone - Nina Simone Sings the Blues (RCA, 1967) Phil Upchurch - Feeling Blue (Milestone, 1967) Tom Rush - The Circle Game (Elektra, 1968) The Soul Finders - Sweet Soul Music (RCA, 1968)[22] David "Fathead" Newman - Bigger & Better (Atlantic, 1968), David "Fathead" Newman - The Many Facets of David Newman (Atlantic, 1969) Freddie McCoy - Listen Here (Prestige, 1968) Albert Ayler - New Grass (Impulse!, 1968) Shirley Scott - Soul Song (Atlantic, 1968) Jimmy McGriff - Electric Funk (Blue Note, 1969) James Brown - Say It Loud...I'm Black And I'm Proud (King, 1969) Sonny Phillips - Sure 'Nuff (Prestige, 1969) Al Kooper - You Never Know Who Your Friends Are (Columbia, 1969) Hank Crawford - Mr. Blues Plays Lady Soul (Atlantic, 1969) Gary Burton - Good Vibes (Atlantic, 1969) Shirley Scott - Shirley Scott & the Soul Saxes (Atlantic, 1969) Yusef Lateef - Yusef Lateef's Detroit (Atlantic, 1969) Boogaloo Joe Jones - Boogaloo Joe (Prestige, 1969) Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Soul Talk (Prestige, 1969) Gene Ammons - The Boss Is Back! (Prestige, 1969) Gene Ammons - Brother Jug! (Prestige, 1969) Rusty Bryant - Night Train Now! (Prestige, 1969) Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda (Warner Bros., 1969) Dizzy Gillespie - Cornucopia (Solid State, 1969) Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Black Feeling! (Prestige, 1969) Larry Coryell - Coryell (Vanguard, 1969) Sonny Phillips - Black on Black! (Prestige, 1970) Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Here It 'Tis (Prestige, 1970) Boogaloo Joe Jones - Right On Brother (Prestige, 1970) Boogaloo Joe Jones - No Way! (Prestige, 1970) B.B. King - Completely Well (ABC, 1970) Robert Palmer's Insect Trust - Hoboken Saturday Night (Atco, 1970) Charles Kynard - Afro-Disiac (Prestige, 1970) Eddie Palmieri - Harlem River Drive (Roulette, 1970) Five Stairsteps - O-o-h Child (Buddah, 1970) Charles Kynard - Wa-Tu-Wa-Zui (Beautiful People) (Prestige, 1970) Houston Person - Houston Express (Prestige, 1970) Hank Crawford - It's a Funky Thing to Do (Cotillion, 1971) Boogaloo Joe Jones - What It Is (Prestige, 1971) Eddie Harris and Les McCann - Second Movement (Atlantic, 1971) David "Fathead" Newman - Captain Buckles (Cotillion, 1971) Aretha Franklin - Aretha Live at Fillmore West (Atlantic, 1971) Oliver Nelson - Swiss Suite (Flying Dutchman, 1971) King Curtis - Live at Fillmore West (Atlantic, 1971) Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Wild Horses Rock Steady (Kudu/CTI, 1971) Larry Coryell - Fairyland (Mega, 1971) Herbie Mann - Push Push (Embryo/Atlantic, 1971) Dizzy Gillespie - The Real Thing (Perception, 1971) Gato Barbieri - El Pampero (Flying Dutchman, 1971) Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man (Flying Dutchman, 1971) Les McCann - Invitation to Openness (Atlantic, 1972) Hank Crawford - Help Me Make It Through the Night (Kudu/CTI, 1972) Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black (Atlantic, 1972) James Brown - Get On The Good Foot (Polydor, 1972) Hubert Laws - Wild Flower (Atlantic, 1972) Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (Atlantic, 1972) Esther Phillips - Alone Again Naturally (Kudu/CTI, 1972) Miles Davis - Get Up with It (Columbia, 1972) Ronnie Foster - Sweet Revival (Blue Note, 1972) Hank Crawford - We Got a Good Thing Going (Kudu/CTI, 1972) Buddy Terry - Lean on Him (Mainstream, 1973) David "Fathead" Newman - The Weapon (Atlantic, 1973) Gato Barbieri - Bolivia (Flying Dutchman, 1973) B.B. King - Guess Who (ABC, 1973) Cat Stevens - Foreigner (A&M, 1973) Hall & Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette (Atlantic, 1973) Bette Midler - Bette Midler (Atlantic, 1973) Jimmy McGriff - Come Together (Groove Merchant, 1974) Gato Barbieri - Yesterdays (Flying Dutchman, 1974) Joe Cocker - I Can Stand A Little Rain (A&M, 1974) Rusty Bryant - Until It's Time for You to Go (Prestige, 1974) Bama The Village Poet - Ghettos Of The Mind (Chess, 1974)[23] Arif Mardin - Journey (Atlantic, 1974) Cornell Dupree - Teasin' (Atlantic, 1975) Todd Rundgren - Initiation (Bearsville, 1975) Jorge Dalto - Chevere (United Artists, 1976) Hummingbird - We Can't Go On Meeting Like This (A&M, 1976) Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (ABC, 1976) Steely Dan - Aja (ABC, 1977)[5] Hummingbird - Diamond Nights (A&M, 1977) Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis - Home In The Country (Savoy, 1977) Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - You Can't Make Love Alone (Flying Dutchman, 1977) Joe Cocker - Luxury You Can Afford (Elektra, 1978) Felix Pappalardi - Don't Worry, Ma (A&M, 1979) Dizzy Gillespie - Digital at Montreux, 1980 (Pablo, 1980) Steely Dan - Gaucho (MCA, 1980) B.B. King - There Must Be a Better World Somewhere (MCA, 1981) Houston Person - Heavy Juice (Muse, 1982) Hank Crawford - Mr. Chips (Milestone, 1986) Flip Phillips and Scott Hamilton - A Sound Investment (Concord, 1987) Jimmy McGriff - Blue To The 'Bone (Milestone, 1988) Jimmy Smith - Damn! (Verve, 1995) Reuben Wilson - Organ Blues (Jazzateria, 2001) Oliver Darley - Introducing Oliver Darley (East West, 2001)[24] Elliott Randall - Still Reelin' [EP] (Private Collection Records, 2007) Larry Coryell - Earthquake at the Avalon, (inakustik, 2009)[25] Hair - Broadway Cast Recording (Ghostlight/Razor & Tie, 2009) Chihiro Yamanaka - Reminiscence (Verve, 2011) Mick Taylor - East Coast Tour appearances (2012) " Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondFunkUnitHEADPHONE Jon Hammond Band Facebook https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1012367882125342 Jon Hammond Funk Unit - NAMM Center Stage, and Bernard Purdie Commercial for his newly released book https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2015/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit "Let The Drums Speak" with illustrations Performance Info Location/Stage: Anaheim C.C. CenterStage The NAMM Show Artist Info Joe Berger: Guitar/Guitarist Dom Famularo: Drums/Drummer Alex Budman: Tenor Saxopohone/Saxophonist Koei Tanaka: Harmonica Jon Hammond: Organ / Leader Genre: Rock Website: http://www.jonhammondband.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/jonhammondband Jon's archive: https://archive.org/details/DomFamularoFeatureOnJonHammondBandNAMMShow1 On the Youtube http://youtu.be/0656E-IWDn8 Center Patio Stage The NAMM Show feature Dom Famularo Power Funk Supreme drums on Jon's tune "Head Phone" - Alex Budman tenor sax, Joe Berger guitar, Koei Tanaka / 田中光栄 - fan site harmonica, Jon Hammond organ - special thanks Sabian, JJ Guitars, Suzuki Musical Instruments Instruments, Bespeco Accessori, Alex Mingmann Hsieh Hsieh, Pmauriat Albest - stage crew Evan, Jennifer, April, cameo appearance by Wolfgang Lücke Director musikmesse Frankfurt am Main Greg Herreman Productions NAMM Organization - #NAMMShow #HammondOrgans #Lunch #Sabian #Pmauriat #ASCAP #BernardPurdie #CableAccess Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/TrainSongMusikmesseWarmUpParty CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1170664 Youtube http://youtu.be/ibPxc0shd8Y Jon Hammond original composition "Train Song" performed at Jon's annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in the world famous jazzkeller Frankfurt - Jon Hammond Band: Giovanni Totò Gulino drums, Peter Klohmann tenor saxophone, Joe Berger guitar, Jon Hammond Sk1 Hammond organ - special thanks to Frank Poehl for operating the camera - http://www.HammondCast.com ©JH INTL ASCAP Publishing JON HAMMOND International Briggs & Riley Travelware added 2 new photos - https://www.facebook.com/BriggsandRiley/posts/10153116135768914 Iconic jazz and blues keyboardist and television/music radio show host and producer (CBS's "Jon Hammond's Afternoon Slide" on KYCY 1550 AM) Jon Hammond writes us: "Nothing like riding the old S-Bahn with my Briggs & Riley Travelware." We do love hearing from you, Mr. Hammond. Happy travels on tour and keep on tinkling those ivories!! Musician and media personality Jon Hammond in Frankfurt photographing his Briggs & Riley bags. Keyboard master Jon Hammond on tour. People Who Like This: Chuck Scheper In Pursuit of Travel / Alicia Anderson Amanda Griffiths Briggs & Riley Travelware Paradise Baggage Company and Luggage Repair - Colorado Julie Goetz Hoffman Aymun Hassan Bernie Maduzia Ralph Ron DiGennaro Lilliam Ugalde Wyer Alinda Soria Jon Hammond Band http://www.facebook.com/jonhammondband Dailymotion http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1skk2s_train-song-musikmesse-warm-up-party-jon-s-journal_music Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/LateRent2013MusikmesseWarmUpPartyJonHammondBand

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Carter Chuggy Carter percussion Bernard Purdie drums Barry Finnerty guitar Jon Hammond 1959 B3 organ camera Joe Berger http://www.jonhammondband.com/ — Opening Party for The Australian Music Association Convention - AMAC back in Gold Coast Australia, The Jon Hammond Trio with Kerry Jacobson drums, Neil Wickham tenor saxophone, Jon Hammond New B3 organ - opening introduction by Bernie Capicchiano with many special guest in the house, including Larry Morton Chairman of NAMM Show in the USA Delegation and member exhibitors of AMA in Jupiters Casino Hotel Broadbeach Gold Coast AU - AMAC Convention Back In Gold Coast for 2014 - Jon Hammond Organ Group - special thanks Bernies Music Land Team / Musico, Rob Walker, Greg Phillips, Tony Burn - and all the great people of The AMAC! - The Late Great Joe Franklin with Jon Hammond: Joe Franklin "King Of Nostalgia" Host of Radio & TV who's guests have been entertainers like Bill Cosby to legends like Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, John Lennon, here with Jon Hammond on Jon's daily HammondCast Show on KYOU Radio live in Joe Franklin's office known as "Memory Lane". Enjoy! ©JON HAMMOND International CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1220892 Vimeo https://vimeo.com/120964118 Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/TVShow0903PreviewJonHammondShow Views 0 #0 Youtube https://youtu.be/-RrQ6pZBtOc 3 views #3 Manhattan Neighborhood Network Channel 1 Jon’s Big Boxing Match first segment - Chicago IL -- Jon's Big Boxing Match - Behind The Beat soundtrack - special thanks Steven Rosenfeld - Jon Hammond next up, 2PM Nissan Stage Kick Off - 2PM EST Jon Hammond Funk Unit kicking it off on the Nissan Stage at Summer NAMM Show Nashville Music City Center Roland Barber - trombone, trumpet, sea shell Cord Martin - tenor saxophone Chuggy Carter - percussion Louis Flip Winfield - drums Lee Oskar - harmonica Joe Berger - guitar Jon Hammond - organ + bass http://www.jonhammondband.com ‪#NAMMShow ‪#SummerNAMM ‪#NissanStage#HammondOrgan Next: Jazz Funk Tribute to Cannonball Adderley and Lutz Büchner with NDR Horns Jon Hammond Band Jazz Funk Tribute to Cannonball Adderley and Lutz Büchner​ NDR Horns Jon Hammond Band​ - Auster Jazz Series concert Hamburg Eimsbüttel. Funky Heinz Lichius​ drums, Michael Leuschner​ trumpet, Lutz Büchner tenor, Ernst-Friedrich Fiete Felsch​ alto, Joe Berger​ guitar, Jon Hammond​ organ bass - special thanks Nicolai Ditsch for operating the camera, this concert was filmed in High Definition - Frank Blume, Torsten Wendt - Knut Benzner NDR Redaktion - Musik Rotthoff​ support - Gideon Schier / Baltic Soul Weekender in Auster Bar​ #LutzBüchner#NDRJazz#MichaelLeuschner Producer Jon Hammond Language English H.264 download download 1 file MPEG4 download download 1 file TORRENT download download 34 Files download 5 Original Published September 2, 2016 Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics trombone, trumpet, sea shell, #NAMMShow, ‪#SummerNAMM, ‪#NissanStage, #HammondOrgan Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/AcousticNationNAMMConcertLydiasTuneInNashvilleTennessee1 by Jon Hammond ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP Summer NAMM 2016 https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2016/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit Jon Hammond Funk Unit Performance Info Event Information: Event Date: Friday, June 24, 2016 - 2:00pm to 2:40pm Location: Music City Center, NAMM Nissan Stage on The Terrace Add to Calendar Frankfurt -- Lydia's Tune Live in Yachtklub Frankfurt - Hans Romanov Presents with Dedication to Lutz Büchner long-time member saxophonist of Jon Hammond Band Lydia's Tune Live in Yachtklub Frankfurt Hollywood -- Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/InterviewAllisonIrahetaAndMatthewHagerAkaHaloCircus Youtube https://youtu.be/yGND5modU8Q Facebook video https://www.facebook.com/hammondcast/videos/10153441552957102/?l=6086248925586335229 Vimeo https://vimeo.com/165043267 Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/6842260423 AFM Local 6 Member Jon Hammond https://afm6.org/member-profile/jon-hammond-wheres-the-gig/ JON HAMMOND: “WHERE’S THE GIG?” - Alex Walsh Jon Hammond is a musician, composer, bandleader, publisher, journalist, TV show host, radio DJ, and multi-media entrepreneur. He currently travels the world, playing gigs and attending trade shows. “Every time I see a musician walking down the street I say, ‘Hey, where’s the gig?’ Because it doesn’t matter what kind of music you play, if you’re carrying an instrument–going to a rehearsal, or coming back from a repair shop, whatever it is–we all need our gigs. And that’s what the union is all about. Hopefully, we can all keep working and be supportive of everybody’s gigs. There’s room for everybody.” THE EARLY YEARS Jon Hammond was born in Chicago in 1953. His father was a doctor and his mother was a housewife. They both played the piano. In 1957, his parents moved Jon and his four sisters to Berkeley, CA, where his father worked in a hospital as head of the emergency room. When he was nine, Jon started accordion lessons. “In those days, they had studios where parents would drop their kids off after school for tap dancing and accordion lessons. There were accordion bands and they would compete against each other.” Jon played his first gig at a senior citizens luncheon when he was eleven. Not only did he get a free lunch but he was paid $25 –a lot of money in those days. Jon says his father was supportive, but did not want him to pursue a music career. “He told me that music was a great hobby. He got me a wonderful professional accordion for my Bar Mitzvah, directly from John Molinari, one of the greatest accordionists who ever lived. It was a Guilietti Professional Tone Chamber accordion. That’s the accordion I won Jr. Jazz Champion on in 1966.” In high school, Jon attended a private boys school in San Francisco. He was a class clown, and when it got to the point where he was going to be expelled, Jon took his accordion and ran away from home. He immersed himself in the San Francisco music scene and started playing organ in several bands. By 1971 he was in a four piece rock group called Hades which shared a rehearsal space with Quicksilver Messenger Service. “I was friends with their manager, Ron Polte, who also managed guitarist John Cipollina. We got to open for his band, Copperhead.” Jon continued to play gigs in the Bay Area in different configurations, including a few gigs with a young Eddie Money. By this time Jon had become frustrated with the Bay Area scene. One night while playing a biker bar he got into a fight and his band didn’t come to his defense. “That was the last straw. I was angry and I said I wasn’t coming back.” Jon in the early 70s Jon moved to Boston in 1973 to attend the Berklee School of Music. He also got a gig playing in Boston’s Combat Zone backing up burlesque shows. When Jon saw one of his idols, pianist Keith Jarrett play in New York he told him he was going to Berklee and asked him for advice. “Keith looked me right in the eye and said ‘Berklee can be very dangerous for your music.’ It was like he popped this huge bubble. Years later I came to understand what he was talking about. You have to learn the fundamentals, but the music itself comes from a much deeper place. They can’t teach that, you have to find it yourself.” When Jon’s teachers began sitting in on his gigs in Boston, he questioned why he was in school if the teachers were coming to play with him. He quit school, moved to Cape Cod and started playing with bandleader Lou Colombo. “He did all the private parties for Tip O’Neill. We played what they used to call the business man’s beat. On the gig it was forbidden to swing. It was like swing cut in half. So if you tried to go with the four, Lou would say, ‘Don’t swing it, don’t swing it.’ He pounded it into my head night after night.” LATE RENT In 1981 Jon took a trip to Paris where he broke through his writers block and wrote some of his best music. He returned to New York with his new tunes and started a production company with the idea of getting a record deal for a friend that had played on a #1 hit record. After months of pounding the pavement with no results, Jon realized he had better work on his own music before his money ran out. He took the last of his savings, including his upcoming rent money, and went into the studio to record what came to be known as “The Late Rent Sessions”. The session had Todd Anderson on tenor sax, Barry Finnerty on guitar, Stephen Ferrone on drums, and Jon on B3. They recorded at Intergalactic, the last studio that John Lennon recorded in. Jon had no luck getting a record deal for his new project, but he did get gigs in New York with his band Jon Hammond and the Late Rent Session Men. Jon Hammond Band Onstage at NAMM, 2014: Joe Berger, Dom Famularo, Alex Budman, Koei Tanaka, Jon Hammond In 1982, Jon found out about public access television and the idea that anyone could produce a show and get it on TV. He started broadcasting on Manhattan’s public station in 1984. “I decided I was going to produce a radio show on TV. The first episodes showed just my tapping foot and my voice. It was a gimmick. We had graphics that were synchronized to go with the music. It worked out well. People dug it.” Within a few weeks, Jon was interviewed and featured in Billboard Magazine. The Jon Hammond Show was considered an alternative to the clips on Cable TV. “MTV was still in its infancy. We had a concept that was revolutionary. My phone started ringing and we were the hot kids on the block.” LIVING ABROAD Jon continued to play gigs in New York and produce his TV show. In 1987, he went to his first trade show (NAMM) where he was introduced to Mr. Julio Guilietti, the man who built his accordion. He then began traveling to trade shows and making contacts with musicians and companies around the world, including Hammond Suzuki. “They gave me the Hammond XB-2, the first really powerful portable Hammond organ. Glenn Derringer, one of my all-time heroes, presented it to me. I got one of the first. Paul Shaffer from the Letterman Show got the other. At the time there was only one EXP-100 expression pedal–we had to share the pedal. I used the pedal for my gigs and when Paul needed it I would bring it over to him at 30 Rockefeller Center on my bicycle.” In the early 90s, when his New York gigs began drying up, Jon was encouraged to go to Germany. “It was a hard time. My father had just died and there were very few gigs. I got the XB-2 organ right when I needed it, so I decided to take a chance. I bought a roundtrip ticket to Frankfurt with an open return. I went with 50 bucks and stayed for a year. When I came back, I had 100 bucks.” Jon stayed at a friend’s house and played a borrowed accordion on the street until he could get a band together. “I played on the street until my fingers turned blue and would collect enough money to get some fish soup. After about two weeks I got a call—I had put a band together and had 3 gigs coming up. A TV show had heard my story and wanted to do a story on me. At the first gig 19 people came; the second only 15 people came. Then I got the little spot on TV. When I came to the third gig people were lined up down the street. When I walked up I thought they were having an art exhibit. When they said, ‘No, they’re waiting for you.’ I choked up, I couldn’t even talk. So I’ve been playing there every year since. The people in Germany really saved my musical career at a time when very few things were happening for me in New York or San Francisco. I have a really good following in Europe. I keep busy as a musician in the States, playing hospitals and assisted living places, but my band dates I pretty much play overseas.” Jon’s Late Rent Sessions was eventually released on a German label and received modest airplay. During the 90s he travelled back and forth to Europe, spending a year playing gigs in Paris, and eventually settling in Hamburg. Since then he has released two more albums and has played gigs in Moscow, Shanghai, and Australia. With the help of the internet, Jon is able to produce his TV show anywhere. PRESENT DAY In the mid-2000s Jon produced Hammondcast, a radio program for CBS that aired in San Francisco at four in the morning and was rebroadcast before Oakland A’s games. “When the baseball games played in the afternoon, my show would play for about 20 minutes and then it was pre-empted. I had a lot of fun with that.” His guests included Danny Glover, Barry Melton from Country Joe & the Fish, and many local people. “It took me awhile to figure out that I had permission to broadcast anything I wanted. I could play the London Philharmonic or Stevie Wonder. My tag line was ‘Hello, Hello, Hello! Wake up or go back to sleep…’” Today, Jon continues to visit tradeshows and is determined to keep doing everything he does as long as he can. “I made a pact with my longtime co-producer, guitarist Joe Berger, that we are going to go to these trade shows until we are little old men with canes.” Jon has released four CDs For more info visit www.jonhammondband.com Jon Hammond Funk Unit https://www.namm.org/summer/2015/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit JON HAMMOND 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. Musician: Jon Hammond is one of the premier B3 PLAYERS in the world. Jon has played professionally since age 12. Beginning as a solo accordionist, he later played Hammond B3 organ in a number of important San Francisco bands. His all original group HADES opened shows for Tower of Power, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Michael Bloomfield. Eddie Money and Barry Finnerty became musical associates. Moving East he attended Berklee College of Music and 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 the late great trumpet player Lou Colombo and developed a lasting friendship with House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He also toured the Northeast and Canada with the successful show revue "Easy Living", and continued his appearances at nightclubs in Boston and New York. Subsequently Hammond lived and traveled in Europe, where he has an enthusiastic following. TV/Video Producer: In 1981 Jon formed BackBeat Productions. Assisted by Lori Friedman (Video by LORI), the innovative TV show "The Jon Hammond Show" became a Manhattan Cable TV favorite. Jon's "Live on the street" video style included news events, as well as live music/video clips of Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Butterfield, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Sledge and many others. The weekly show is now in it's 30th year and has influenced the broadcasts of David Letterman and others. Billboard Magazine hailed Jon's show as "The Alternative to MTV". LINK http://youtu.be/7TApELTO1XI Head Phone - Jon Hammond Band THE SOUND SOUL SUMMIT All-Star Jam Video Movie of Jon's Band Featuring Bernard Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Alex Budman, Joe Berger2, Koei Tanaka, Jon Hammond Organ Group funky jazz http://www.journal-frankfurt.de/funkyjazz Tuesday, April 5 at 9 PM Musikmesse Warm Up Party celebrating 30 years Best Party of The Year! Jon Hammond’s annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in jazzkeller Tuesday April 5th 2016 celebrating 30 years Jon Hammond’s annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in jazzkeller Tuesday April 5th 2016 celebrating 30 years Bernard Pretty Purdie, #Children #Phyllis #Anthony #Mikells #HammondOrgan