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Jon Hammond: Another special announcement - photo by Teddy Fung - Jon Hammond on Superlux TUBE CM-H8G
Happy 85th Birthday Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - Jon Hammond Band - June 11, 1939 -- Born June 11, 1939 (age 85)
Elkton, Maryland, U.S.
Birth name Bernard Lee Purdie
Also known as
Bernard "Pretty" Purdie
Mississippi Bigfoot
Birth name Bernard Lee Purdie
Also known as
Bernard "Pretty" Purdie
Pretty Purdie
Mississippi Bigfoot
Lee Hildebrand: "That Jon Hammond, an obscure B-3 organ player who recently relocated from New York to Berkeley (where he'd grown up ni the 60s), was able to get the famous drummer to fly in for the Kimball's engagement was an impressive feat. Completing
the quartet, which Hammond calls the Late Rent Session Men, were his buddy of
some thirty years, onetime Crusaders and Miles Davis guitarist
Barry Finnerty (who just moved from New York to Oakland), and veteran Bay Area tenor saxophonist Bennett Friedman.
Whether playing swing, shuffle, bossa nova, or funk patterns, Purdie served as a springboard for his cohorts' solos, his sly, surprise-filled accents on chorus turn-arounds lifting them to peak after peak of excitement. Finnerty's scorching, fast-fingered flights unfortunately were obscured in the sound mix till near the end of the often-incendiary ninety-minute set of Hammond originals, but Friedman's muscular, barking hard-bop attack eut through like a switchblade throughout. With his clean, fleet articulation and judicious use of dynamics, Hammond proved a commanding organist of the Jimmy Smith school. His move back to the Bay Area is most welcome, as is Finnerty's."
—Lee Hildebrand
**Actual tracking session at Quad Recording Studios NYC
with factory Sennheiser pickup system
and of course my super-comfortable straps and gig bag by Manifatture Fuselli - Made in Italy
Yep, I did a Part 2 Thirteen years later:
NAMM Oral History - Jon Hammond
Star Club Legend Salvatore Martens "Pico", Margaret Riemann, Jon Hammond - Delphi Theater Hamburg
Just put my Hammond A-100 to sleep. Recording sessions coming up - Jon Hammond
Burbank -- AFM Local 47 Tuesday organ session - Jon Hammond
early bird today
AFM - American Federation of Musicians US & Canada
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