Alternative To Clips On Cable by Kim Freeman Billboard Magazine March 19, 1984
NEW YORK---Year-old BackBeat Productions hopes to break new ground in the video medium with it's first project, "The Jon Hammond Show." Currently airing on Manhattan Cable's Channel 3 and San Francisco's public access Channel 25, the program is a half hour of computer generated graphics synchronized with original jazz-fusion and rock music. Hammond's voice and his tapping boot are the only human intrusions during the show.
"It's an alternative to the conceptual and concert footage videos. We're delivering an art form." says the show's host, BackBeat's co-founder Jon Hammond. The company also functions as a label, and Hammond says the broadcast will be a vehicle to expose artists on the BackBeat roster.
Hammond say's he's close to securing slots on public access channels in New Orleans, Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston and plans to recoup investements by syndicating the show to national networks if and when it gains an audience.
His partner in the venture is former Crusaders guitarist Barry Finnerty, who wrote the music for the first program. All songs on the "Jon Hammond Show" feature BackBeat's studio band of Finnerty, keyboardist Hammond, drummer Steve Ferrone and saxophonist Todd Anderson.
KIM FREEMAN
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HammondCast 189
HammondCast 189 KYOU Radio Pt 1 & Pt 2 Radio Mix HEAD PHONE, KENNY BURRELL i.d., RAUL MIDON "Waited All My Life", "Next Generation, JON HAMMOND Band, "Mercy Mercy", "Wine and Roses" � JH INTL http://www.HammondCast.com 45 minutes
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HammondCast 189 KYOU Radio Pt 1 & Pt 2 Radio Mix HEAD PHONE, KENNY BURRELL i.d., RAUL MIDON "Waited All My Life", "Next Generation, JON HAMMOND Band, "Mercy Mercy", "Wine and Roses" � JH INTL
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After an absence of 8 years, the Jon Hammond Trio returns to Smiley's, Schooner Saloon and Hotel, Bolinas CA, on Saturday July 10th, 9pm. With organist and accordionist Jon Hammond for an evening of funky swingin' jazz and blues music at the historic Smiley's location are Barry Finnerty – guitar, and Jon Otis – drums.
