2013 ASCAP I Create Music Expo 1st Day kicking it off in Hollywood California Jon Hammond HammondCast Weblog
8th annual ASCAP Expo - Jon's been to 7 out of 8, not bad!
First event: ASCAP General Membership Meeting
Paul William President of ASCAP Tweeting at beginning of his speech - not bad for an old-timer Paul! Jon Hammond *Member ASCAP at General Membership Meeting Hollywood CA
— with Paul William Music at Loews Hollywood Hotel
Paul Williams ASCAP President - Composer/Musician/Actor
- 2013 General Membership Meeting opener - Jon Hammond Member ASCAP Kicking off 2013 ASCAP Expo Hollywood CA - 10 pictures, encouraging news from Paul Williams and the Youtube people - Hollywood California — with Paul William Music at 2013 ASCAP EXPO
*note: (Jon Hammond) just came back from Germany -- Jeff Guilford of JJ Guitars in the haus/house - Marcel Wolf at Audio Board - Bürgermeisterin der Stadt Hofheim Gisela Stang in the audience with Christian Matz - dankeschön for joining us! 18th consecutive year - Jon
Photos taken by the great Rock photographer Andreas Meer - Jon Hammond Band's annual Musikmesse-Session at Jazzkeller-Hofheim, dankeschön Andreas! Jon — with Jeff Guilford, Gisela Stang, Marcel Wolf and Christian Matz at Jazzkeller Hofheim
Thanks / Dankeschön for coming everybody! 18th consecutive year
Gisela Stang As you can see: we really enjoyed the music and we had fun !
20 hours ago
Jeff Guilford It was a great evening. Wonderful people and great music from my proud friends. Thanks, Jeff
-- wir sehen uns next: 14 Mrz. 2014 - Jon
L to R: Joe Berger guitar, Peter Klohmann tenor sax, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums / schlagzeug, Jon Hammond organ/orgel
Photos taken by the great Rock photographer Andreas Meer - Jon Hammond Band's annual Musikmesse-Session at Jazzkeller-Hofheim, dankeschön Andreas! Jon — with Joe Berger, Peter Klohmann, Jon Hammond Band, Totó Giovanni Gulino and Jon Hammond Organ Group at Jazzkeller Hofheim
ASCAP Board of Directors - PUBLISHERS -- Jon Hammond Member ASCAP Kicking off 2013 ASCAP Expo Hollywood CA - 10 pictures, encouraging news from Paul Williams and the Youtube people - Hollywood California
— with American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) at 2013 ASCAP EXPO
In Memory of ASCAP Composer Hal David -- Jon Hammond Kicking off 2013 ASCAP Expo Hollywood CA - 10 pictures, encouraging news from Paul Williams and the Youtube people - Hollywood California
— Hal David at 2013 ASCAP EXPO
Copyright Act Reform -- Jon Hammond Kicking off 2013 ASCAP Expo Hollywood CA - 10 pictures, encouraging news from Paul Williams and the Youtube people - Hollywood California
— Judy Chu for Congress and Howard Coble at 2013 ASCAP EXPO
Country Western Song Critique(s) -- Jon Hammond Kicking off 2013 ASCAP Expo Hollywood CA - 10 pictures, encouraging news from Paul Williams and the Youtube people
- Hollywood California — with American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP)
Hollywood California -- 2013 ASCAP I Create Music Day 1 - Opening Networking Reception - Musicians & Songwriters love an open bar...and hors d'oeuvres!
Jon Hammond — with Lauren Iossa at 2013 ASCAP EXPO
"Fam" at Opening Networking Reception
Watching Katy Perry right now who doesn't allow photos - but Peter Frampton had no problem! (and I dig his music and him better anyhow to tell you the truth folks) - it was a great session Peter!
- Jon Hammond — with Peter Frampton at 2013 ASCAP EXPO
Randy Grimmett Exec. V.P. ASCAP Membership is speaking with Cameron Strang
- CEO/Chairman of Warner/Cappell Music Publishing at 2013 ASCAP Expo - Jon Hammond Hollywood California
*flashback to just a few nights ago: Jon Hammond at the organ
-- Photos taken by the great Rock photographer Andreas Meer - Jon Hammond Band's annual Musikmesse-Session at Jazzkeller-Hofheim, dankeschön Andreas! Jon — at Jazzkeller Hofheim
Hollywood California -- Legendary Singer Songwriter Judy Collins closed out the 1st day of 2013 ASCAP I Create Music Expo - singing and signing (autographs)
- Jon Hammond
Judy's Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Collins
Judith Marjorie Collins
Born May 1, 1939 (age 73)
Origin Seattle, Washington,
United States
Genres Rock and roll, Pop, Folk
Occupations Singer, songwriter, musician, actress
Instruments Vocals, piano, guitar
Years active 1959–present
Labels Elektra Records
Geffen/MCA Records
Mesa Bluemoon/Rhino/Atlantic Records
Wildflower Records
Associated acts Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan
Ian Tyson
Joni Mitchell
Joan Baez
Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk, show tunes, pop, rock and roll and standards) and for her social activism. She is an alumna of MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois.
Musical career
Collins was born in Seattle, Washington, where she spent the first ten years of her life. Her father took a job in Denver in 1949, and the family moved to Colorado. Collins studied classical piano with Antonia Brico, making her public debut at age 13, performing Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos. Brico took a dim view, both then and later, of Collins's developing interest in folk music, which led her to the difficult decision to discontinue her piano lessons. Years later, when Collins had become internationally known through her music, she invited Brico to one of her concerts in Denver. When they met after the performance, Brico took both of Collins' hands in hers, looked wistfully at her fingers and said, "Little Judy—you really could have gone places." Still later, Collins discovered that Brico herself had made a living when she was younger playing jazz and ragtime piano (Singing Lessons, pp. 71–72). She also had the fortune of meeting many musicians through her blind father, a Seattle radio program host.[1]
It was the music of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and the traditional songs of the folk revival of the early 1960s, however, that piqued Collins' interest and awoke in her a love of lyrics. Three years after her debut as a piano prodigy, she was playing guitar. Her music became popular at the University of Connecticut, where her husband taught. She performed at parties and for the campus radio station along with David Grisman and Tom Azarian.[2] She eventually made her way to Greenwich Village, New York City, where she busked and played in clubs until she signed with Elektra Records, a record label she was associated with for 35 years. In 1961, Collins released her first album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow, at the age of 22.[3]
At first she sang traditional folk songs or songs written by others — in particular the protest poets of the time, such as Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan. She recorded her own versions of important songs from the period, such as Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and Pete Seeger's "Turn, Turn, Turn". Collins was also instrumental in bringing little-known musicians to a wider public. For example, she recorded songs by Canadian poet Leonard Cohen, who became a close friend over the years. She also recorded songs by singer-songwriters such as Eric Andersen, Ian Tyson, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Robin Williamson and Richard Fariña long before they gained national acclaim.[4] [5]
While Collins' first few albums comprised straightforward guitar-based folk songs, with 1966's In My Life, she began branching out and including work from such diverse sources as The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Jacques Brel, and Kurt Weill.[5] Mark Abramson produced and Joshua Rifkin arranged the album, adding lush orchestration to many of the numbers. The album was regarded as a major departure for a folk artist and set the course for Collins' subsequent work over the next decade.[6]
With her 1967 album Wildflowers, also produced by Mark Abramson and arranged by Rifkin, Collins began to record her own compositions, beginning with "Since You've Asked". The album also provided Collins with a major hit, and a Grammy award, in Mitchell's "Both Sides, Now", which reached Number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.[7]
Collins' 1968 album, Who Knows Where the Time Goes, was produced by David Anderle and featured back-up guitar by Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills & Nash), with whom she was romantically involved at the time. (She was the inspiration for Stills's CSN classic "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"). Time Goes had a mellow country sound, and included Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon" and the title track written by the UK singer-songwriter Sandy Denny. The album also featured Collins' composition "My Father" and one of the first covers of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire".[8]
By the 1970s Collins had a solid reputation as an art song singer and folksinger and had begun to stand out for her own compositions. She was also known for her broad range of material: her songs from this period include the traditional Christian hymn "Amazing Grace", the Stephen Sondheim Broadway ballad "Send in the Clowns" (both of which were top 20 hits as singles), a recording of Joan Baez's "A Song for David", and her own compositions, such as "Born to the Breed".[9]
In the 1970s Collins guest starred on The Muppet Show,[10] where she sang "Leather-Winged Bat", "I Know An Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly", "Do Re Mi" and "Send in the Clowns". She also appeared several times on Sesame Street, where she performed "Fishermen's Song" with a chorus of Anything Muppet fishermen, sang a trio with Biff and Sully using the word "yes", and even starred in a modern musical fairy tale skit called "The Sad Princess".[11]
She sang the theme song of the Rankin-Bass TV movie The Wind in the Willows.[12]
Judy Collins at the Miami Book Fair International of 1987
In more recent years Collins has taken to writing, producing a memoir, Trust Your Heart, in 1987, and a novel, Shameless. A more recent memoir, Sanity and Grace, tells of her son Clark's death in January 1992. With help from her manager Katherine DePaul she started Wildflower Records. Though her record sales are not what they once were, she still records and tours in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. She performed at President Bill Clinton's first inauguration in 1993, singing "Amazing Grace" and "Chelsea Morning". (The Clintons have stated that they named their daughter, Chelsea, after Collins' recording of the song.) In 2006, she sang "This Little Light of Mine" in a commercial for Eliot Spitzer.[13]
In 2008 she oversaw an album featuring artists ranging from Dolly Parton and Joan Baez to Rufus Wainwright and Chrissie Hynde covering her compositions; she also released a collection of The Beatles covers, and she received an honorary doctorate from Pratt Institute on May 18 of that year. In 2010, Collins sang "The Weight of the World" at the Newport Folk Festival, a song by Amy Speace.[14]
Collins joined the 10th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers.[15][16] She was also a judge for the 7th and 9th Independent Music Awards.[17]
In July 2012, Collins appeared as a guest artist on the Australian SBS television show RocKwiz.[18]
[edit]Activism
Like many other folk singers of her generation, Collins was drawn to social activism. Her political idealism also led her to compose a ballad entitled "Che" in honor of the 1960s Marxist icon Che Guevara.[19]
Collins sympathized with the Yippie movement, and was friendly with its leaders, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. On March 17, 1968, she attended Hoffman's press conference at the Americana Hotel in New York to announce the party's formation. In 1969, she testified in Chicago in support of the Chicago Seven; during her testimony, she began singing Pete Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", and was admonished by prosecutor Tom Foran and judge Julius Hoffman.[20]
She is currently a representative for UNICEF and campaigns on behalf of the abolition of landmines.[21][22]
[edit]Personal life
Collins contracted polio at the age of eleven and spent two months in hospital in isolation.[23]
Collins has been married twice. Her first marriage in 1958 to Peter Taylor produced her only child, Clark C. Taylor. The marriage ended in divorce in 1965.[24]
In 1962, shortly after her debut at Carnegie Hall, Collins was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent six months recuperating in a sanatorium.[25]
Collins later admitted suffering from bulimia after she had quit smoking in the 1970s. "I went straight from the cigarettes into an eating disorder", she told People magazine in 1992. "I started throwing up. I didn't know anything about bulimia, certainly not that it is an addiction or that it would get worse. My feelings about myself, even though I had been able to give up smoking and lose 20 lbs., were of increasing despair." She also talks at length, in Singing Lessons (pp. 172–190, 238–240), about her years of addiction to alcohol, the damage it did to her personal and musical life and how it contributed to her feelings of depression. She says that, although she tried other drugs in the 1960s, alcohol was always her primary drug of choice, just as it had been for her father. She entered a rehabilitation program in Pennsylvania in 1978, and she has maintained her sobriety ever since, even through such traumatic events as the suicide of her only child, Clark. In 1992, he committed suicide at age 33 after a long bout with clinical depression and substance abuse. Since his death, she has also become a strong advocate of suicide prevention.
In April 1996, she married designer and fellow activist Louis Nelson, whom she had been seeing since 1979. They live together in New York City.[26]
Her sister, Holly, was married to actor James Keach and they have a son, Kalen.[27]
[edit]Awards and recognition
Grammy Award, Best Folk Performance or Folk Recording, "Both Sides Now", 1968
Stephen Sondheim won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, "Send in the Clowns", in 1975, it was believed, largely on the strength of Collins' performance of the song on her album Judith[28]
Nominated with Jill Godmilow for an Academy Award for the documentary "Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman" (1975), about her classical piano instructor, conductor Antonia Brico.
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Pratt Institute, May 2009
[edit]Discography
Further information: Judy Collins discography
[edit]Charted singles
Year Song US Hot 100 US A.C. Album
1967 "Hard Lovin' Loser" 97 – In My Life
1968 "Both Sides, Now" 8 3 Wildflowers
1969 "Someday Soon" 55 37 Who Knows Where the Time Goes
1969 "Chelsea Morning" 78 25 (single only)
1969 "Turn! Turn! Turn!/To Everything There Is A Season" 69 28 Recollections
1970 "Amazing Grace" 15 5 Whales & Nightingales
1971 "Open The Door (Song For Judith)" 90 23 Living
1973 "Cook With Honey" 32 10 True Stories and Other Dreams
1973 "Secret Gardens" 122 – True Stories and Other Dreams
1975 "Send In The Clowns" 36 8 Judith
1977 "Send In The Clowns" (re-release) 19 15 Judith
1979 "Hard Times For Lovers" 66 16 Hard Times for Lovers
1984 "Home Again" (duet with T. G. Sheppard) – 42 Home Again
1990 "Fires Of Eden" – 31 Fires Of Eden
[edit]Filmography
Baby's Bedtime (1992)
Baby's Morningtime (1992)
Junior (1994), playing the operator of a spa for pregnant women opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger
Christmas at the Biltmore Estate (1998)
A Town Has Turned to Dust (1998), telefilm based on a Rod Serling science-fiction story
The Best of Judy Collins (1999)
Intimate Portrait: Judy Collins (2000)
Judy Collins Live at Wolf Trap (2003)
Wildflower Festival (2003) (DVD with guest artists Eric Andersen, Arlo Guthrie, and Tom Rush)
Girls (TV, 2013), series 2, episode 8: "It's Back"
[edit]Bibliography
Trust Your Heart (1987)
Amazing Grace (1991)
Shameless (1995)
Singing Lessons (1998)
Sanity and Grace: A Journey of Suicide, Survival and Strength (2003)
The Seven T's : Finding Hope and Healing in the Wake of Tragedy (2007)
Sweet Judy Blue Eyes : my life in music (2011) ISBN 0-307-71734-8 OCLC 699763852
**Just a few days before:
2013 Frankfurt Musikmesse Action World's Largest Musical Instruments Show and ProLight + Sound 27th Year Jon Hammond on the scene
Jon Hammond Band last night - Musikmesse Warm Up Party
Chocolate Chocolate Cake baked by Saray Pastnesi Bakery on Mainzer Landstrasse FFM
- Musikmesse Warm Up Party 2013 very special friends in Jazzkeller Frankfurt - thank you so much everybody for joining us for celebrating 27 years Musikmesse and 60 year birthday boy cake action with Jon Hammond Band, Tony Lakatos tenor saxophone, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar and Jon at the Sk1 Hammond organ - we're going to do it again next year in 2014!
L to R: Joe Lamond President CEO of NAMM, Jon Hammond, Joe Berger
Betty Heywood, NAMM director of International Affairs and Jon Hammond at Musikmesse Warm Up Party - Jazzkeller Frankfurt
Chocolate Chocolate cake action - Super Jenny cutting cake - many thanks Super Jenny!
- Musikmesse Warm Up Party 2013 very special friends in Jazzkeller Frankfurt - thank you so much everybody for joining us for celebrating 27 years Musikmesse and 60 year birthday boy cake action with Jon Hammond Band, Tony Lakatos tenor saxophone, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar and Jon at the Sk1 Hammond organ - we're going to do it again next year in 2014!
The Best Baker in Frankfurt delivered personally my birthday / 27 year Musikmesse Warm Up Party chocolate chocolate cake last night to Jazzkeller Frankfurt, dankeschön! Jon Hammond - Day 1 Musikmesse kicking it off folks, JH
Musikmesse Warm Up Party 2013 very special friends in Jazzkeller Frankfurt - thank you so much everybody for joining us for celebrating 27 years Musikmesse and 60 year birthday boy cake action with Jon Hammond Band, Tony Lakatos tenor saxophone, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar and Jon at the Sk1 Hammond organ - we're going to do it again next year in 2014! — at Jazzkeller
Tony Lakatos, Jon Hammond, Totó Giovanni Gulino, Joe Berger Musikmesse Warm Up Party 2013 very special friends in Jazzkeller Frankfurt
- thank you so much everybody for joining us for celebrating 27 years Musikmesse and 60 year birthday boy cake action with Jon Hammond Band, Tony Lakatos tenor saxophone, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar and Jon at the Sk1 Hammond organ - we're going to do it again next year in 2014!
MY HOME AWAY FROM HOME
http://www.journal-frankfurt.de/journal_news/Kultur-9/My-home-away-from-home-Jon-Hammond-zum-27-Mal-auf-der-Musikmesse-18308.html?src=funkyjazz&id&rewrite_titel
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 ein.
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.
Wie würden Sie Ihr persönliches Verhältnis zu Deutschland und Frankfurt beschrieben?
Lassen Sie es mich so sagen: ich liebe Frankfurt und die Frankfurter waren immer gut zu mir in all den Jahren. Ich könnte ein ganzes Buch über die Zeit schreiben, in der ich in Bornheim wohnte und Nacht für Nacht in der alten Jazzkneipe in der Berliner Straße auftrat. Das war der Treffpunkt, wo auch die Musiker der HR Bigband hinkamen und es gab eine generöse Chefin in der kleinen Kneipe. Auch Regine Dobberschütz und Eugen Hahn im Jazzkeller waren wahre Jazzengel für mich, die mir so vieles ermöglichten in der Zeit. Wir konnten auch in den Studios von AFN Radio spielen, waren die einzigen Musiker, die das - mit einer Sondergenehmigung des US Militärs - durften. 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 Giovanni Gulino, diesen tollen Schlagzeuger, der schon für fast alle Großen der Szene getrommelt hat. Ich liebe diese Jungs. Als Gitarrist ist mein alten Freund und Kollege Joe Berger dabei, den man auch als The Berger-Meister kennt. Auf diese Formation bin ich wirklich stolz.
Werden Sie im Jazzkeller wieder eine Hammond Orgel spielen?
Ja, sicher, das neueste Modell, eine Sk1, die exakt so klingt wie die legendäre B3. Ich liebe sie. Und sie wiegt nur noch sieben Kilo (Anm. des Autors: Das Original, ein echtes Möbel mit viel Holz, mussten immer zwei Menschen mit viel Muskelkraft die Treppen rauf und runter hieven), ein deutliches Indiz, dass wir in der Zukunft angekommen sind. Da stecken viele Jahre Forschung und Entwicklung drin, auch Bühnenerprobungen. Ich ziehe den Hut vor den Ingenieuren von Suzuki, ein unverwüstliches Instrument erschaffen zu haben. Und das unterziehe ich jetzt einen echten Härttest (lacht).
27. März 2013 Interview: Detlef Kinsler
photo: Detlef Kinsler and Jon Hammond in Jazzkeller
Web:
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Power Shot - P.Mauriat FMS 2013 Team - Blues and Jazz Session with the great P.Mauriat Artists and Jon Hammond at Sk1 Hammond organ - big special thanks to main man Alex Mingmann Hsieh! - Jon Hammond — with Reiner Witzel, Klaus Wangorsch, André de Laat, Pmauriat Albest, Agnieszka Obrebska and PMauriat Saxophones at musikmesse
The next hot shot tenor player folks! At P.Mauriat stand H4.1 E71 Frankfurt Musikmesse 2013
- Jon Hammond — with P Mauriat HQ and Pmauriat Albest
Wolfgang Lücke Fearless Leader Direktor of Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound world's biggest Music Trade Show and Jon Hammond on last day of the fair - it is a monster job, Wolfgang and his mighty team pulled it off to perfection like every year - and like his name says, brings Good Luck to me and all the family of Music Exhibitors, thanks a million / dankeschön Wolfgang and Team! We will meet again in Shanghai Messefrankfurt Music-China - totally rockin' show once again! - Jon
— with Wolfgang Lücke at musikmesse
Name this great saxophonist Folks! P.Mauriat Blues and Jazz Session Day 3 in 2013 Musikmesse with Jon Hammond at the organ
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- *It's Mike Smith from Chicago folks! JH
Paul de Laat:
Morgen op de Musikmesse!!!! Play it bro!!! ;) — with Arno Haas, Jon Hammond, André de Laat and Tony Lakatos
Róbert Murányi Tony Lakatos a plakát közepén... a magyar szaxis viszi a hátán a csapatot?
Thank you for posting the Plakat of P.Mauriat Blues & Jazz booth session Paul de Laat - your brother plays wonderfully and is a very nice cat!
all the best,
Jon Hammond
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Power shot: Ludovic Beier the great Accordion and Accordina virtuoso Roland V-Accordion Artist, Jon Hammond and Suzuki Instruments Executives Shigeyuki Ohtaka and President Shuji Suzuki on last day of 2013 Frankfurt Musikmesse
- check out my interview with Ludovic and his performances on Youtube
http://youtu.be/aoSYDrWRrok
LUDOVIC BEIER chromatic accordion virtuoso Jazz Musician from France is Jon's guest here on HammondCast
Saxophone Mouthpiece builder Rafy Navarro with Jon Hammond and Tony Lakatos - Rafy also makes Bob Mintzer's mouthpiece - Frankfurt Musikmesse 2013
— with Tony Lakatos at musikmesse
Pigini / Excelsior Accordion Friends at 2013 Musikmesse
L to R: Roberto Lucanero, Massimo Pigini, Jon Hammond, Federico Pigini *note: Excelsior in back of my head is similar to the one I play, magnificent hand-crafted instruments! *2nd image Heinz Aumüller Excelsior Deutschland and Jon Hammond -
Keys To Happiness Excelsior Accordions Hand Built in Castelfidardo Italy – USA Artist Jon Hammond
http://hammondcast.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/keys-to-happiness-excelsior-accordions-usa-artist-jon-hammond/ — with
with Roberto Lucanero
Preview of some of the photographs of the great Rock Photographer Andreas Meer of Jon Hammond Band playing 18th consecutive year Musikmesse-Session in Jazzkeller-Hofheim - it was a great night, thank you to all the folks who joined us including Gisela Stang Bürgermeisterin der Stadt Hofheim, wonderful Team of Jazzkeller-Hofheim and these musicians: Peter Klohmann tenor saxophone, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums, Joe Berger aka The Berger-Meister guitar and Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond organ - thank you so much for documenting our concert Andreas! Jon Hammond
http://www.jonhammondband.com
Back at The Jazzkeller Hofheim for 18th consecutive year - and it's starting to rain outside big time *second image with good friend long-time Jazzkeller Hofheimer Konrad Neupert so great to see Konrad again thanks/dankeschön Konrad! Jon Hammond
Just as I arrived at Jazzkeller-Hofheim it started raining cats and dogs!
Power Photo! L to R: Michael Falkenstein fearless Leader of Hammond Germany with is wonderful lady Super Jenny Jennifer Schiele, Joe Berger The Berger-Meister, Shuji Suzuki President of Suzuki Musical Instruments makers of my Hammond organ and myself Jon Hammond as we all meet in the busy hall of 2013 Frankfurt Musikmesse yesterday!
— with Michael Falkenstein, Jennifer Schiele and Joe Berger
Photo by Andreas Meer
Jazzkeller Hofheim - incredible great Jazz-night with Jon Hammond, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums, Peter Klohmann tenor saxophone, Joe Berger guitar at Sk1 Hammond orgel - Fr. 12.04. Musikmesse-Session mit Jon Hammond Band — with Joe Berger, Jon Hammond Organ Group, Totó Giovanni Gulino, Jon Hammond Band, Peter Klohmann and Jon Hammond
P Mauriat Blues and Jazz session with Jon Hammond and P.Mauriat artists Day 3 at 2013 Musikmesse, Going For The Sound!
P.Mauriat: "Thank you for visiting and see you in China":
http://www.pmauriatmusic.com/en/news/4-events-news/262-thank-you-for-visiting-and-see-you-in-music-china
Hofheim am Taunus -- Great night in history - Gisela Stang Bürgermeisterin der Stadt Hofheim meets Berger-Meister (Joe Berger) - Jon Hammond Band in Jazzkeller Hofheim
L to R: Joe Berger aka Berger-Meister, Gisela Stang, Totó Giovanni Gulino, Peter Kohmann, Joe Berger is happy about this...and we all are, go Gisela in the election, keep up the great work in Hofheim am Taunus! - Jon Hammond — with Joe Berger, Gisela Stang, Jon Hammond Band, Totó Giovanni Gulino and Peter Klohmann
The great Music Photographer Documentarian Andreas Meer and Jon Hammond on last day of Musikmesse 2013 - I am so happy and blessed that main man Andreas came directly from Paris to our concert last night in Jazzkeller Hofheim and shot incredible photos, documented the entire event, merci beaucoup...and thank you very much Andreas! Some photos will be coming soon, wow this is so super, Andreas Meer is one of the greatest Rock photographers in the world!
Thanks a million Andreas!
Jon Hammond and Band
— at musikmesse
Power Shot: with Ludovic Beier my favorite accordionist, accordina virtuoso and the Father of Roland V-Accordion and Jon Hammond on last day of Frankfurt Musikmesse 2013, bravo Ludovic! Jon
Youtube
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— with Ludovic Beier at musikmesse
Big big congratulations to my friend Chan Mei Leng on the Grand Opening of her wonderful new "Selera Malaysian Restaurant" located very close to the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof on Muenchenerstr. 52, the food is fantastic - wishing you many successes long long time Leng and Selera Team!
Jon Hammond — with Chan Mei Leng at Selera Malaysian Restaurant Muenchenerstr. 52 Frankfurt am Main
Power Photo! L to R: Michael Falkenstein fearless Leader of Hammond Germany with is wonderful lady Super Jenny Jennifer Schiele, Joe Berger The Berger-Meister, Shuji Suzuki President of Suzuki Musical Instruments makers of my Hammond organ and myself Jon Hammond as we all meet in the busy hall of 2013 Frankfurt Musikmesse yesterday!
The Pointers! - Jon Hammond and Tony Lakatos saxophonist extraordinaire just about ready to hit at P.Mauriat Blues and Jazz Session 2013 Musikmesse
- Special thanks TecAmp/THC amplification!
Thomas Eich TecAmp / TCH Amplifiers and Jon Hammond
Thomas Eich, TecAmp, Bespeco, Musikmesse, P.Mauriat, Tony Lakatos, Chocolate Cake, Warm Up Party, Funky Jazz, Blues, Sk1 Organ, Jon Hammond
ASCAP Expo, Hollywood California, Judy Collins, Paul Williams, 8th annual, songwriters, musicians, open bar, hors d'oeuvres, Pop music, Jazz, Blues, Classical, Board of Directors, Lauren Iossa, Marketing Director
Paul William President of ASCAP Tweeting at beginning of his speech - not bad for an old-timer Paul! Jon Hammond *Member ASCAP at General Membership Meeting Hollywood CA
— with Paul William Music at Loews Hollywood Hotel
Paul Williams ASCAP President - Composer/Musician/Actor
- 2013 General Membership Meeting opener - Jon Hammond Member ASCAP Kicking off 2013 ASCAP Expo Hollywood CA - 10 pictures, encouraging news from Paul Williams and the Youtube people - Hollywood California — with Paul William Music at 2013 ASCAP EXPO
*note: (Jon Hammond) just came back from Germany -- Jeff Guilford of JJ Guitars in the haus/house - Marcel Wolf at Audio Board - Bürgermeisterin der Stadt Hofheim Gisela Stang in the audience with Christian Matz - dankeschön for joining us! 18th consecutive year - Jon
Photos taken by the great Rock photographer Andreas Meer - Jon Hammond Band's annual Musikmesse-Session at Jazzkeller-Hofheim, dankeschön Andreas! Jon — with Jeff Guilford, Gisela Stang, Marcel Wolf and Christian Matz at Jazzkeller Hofheim
Thanks / Dankeschön for coming everybody! 18th consecutive year
Gisela Stang As you can see: we really enjoyed the music and we had fun !
20 hours ago
Jeff Guilford It was a great evening. Wonderful people and great music from my proud friends. Thanks, Jeff
-- wir sehen uns next: 14 Mrz. 2014 - Jon
L to R: Joe Berger guitar, Peter Klohmann tenor sax, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums / schlagzeug, Jon Hammond organ/orgel
Photos taken by the great Rock photographer Andreas Meer - Jon Hammond Band's annual Musikmesse-Session at Jazzkeller-Hofheim, dankeschön Andreas! Jon — with Joe Berger, Peter Klohmann, Jon Hammond Band, Totó Giovanni Gulino and Jon Hammond Organ Group at Jazzkeller Hofheim
ASCAP Board of Directors - PUBLISHERS -- Jon Hammond Member ASCAP Kicking off 2013 ASCAP Expo Hollywood CA - 10 pictures, encouraging news from Paul Williams and the Youtube people - Hollywood California
— with American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) at 2013 ASCAP EXPO
In Memory of ASCAP Composer Hal David -- Jon Hammond Kicking off 2013 ASCAP Expo Hollywood CA - 10 pictures, encouraging news from Paul Williams and the Youtube people - Hollywood California
— Hal David at 2013 ASCAP EXPO
Copyright Act Reform -- Jon Hammond Kicking off 2013 ASCAP Expo Hollywood CA - 10 pictures, encouraging news from Paul Williams and the Youtube people - Hollywood California
— Judy Chu for Congress and Howard Coble at 2013 ASCAP EXPO
Country Western Song Critique(s) -- Jon Hammond Kicking off 2013 ASCAP Expo Hollywood CA - 10 pictures, encouraging news from Paul Williams and the Youtube people
- Hollywood California — with American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP)
Hollywood California -- 2013 ASCAP I Create Music Day 1 - Opening Networking Reception - Musicians & Songwriters love an open bar...and hors d'oeuvres!
Jon Hammond — with Lauren Iossa at 2013 ASCAP EXPO
"Fam" at Opening Networking Reception
Watching Katy Perry right now who doesn't allow photos - but Peter Frampton had no problem! (and I dig his music and him better anyhow to tell you the truth folks) - it was a great session Peter!
- Jon Hammond — with Peter Frampton at 2013 ASCAP EXPO
Randy Grimmett Exec. V.P. ASCAP Membership is speaking with Cameron Strang
- CEO/Chairman of Warner/Cappell Music Publishing at 2013 ASCAP Expo - Jon Hammond Hollywood California
*flashback to just a few nights ago: Jon Hammond at the organ
-- Photos taken by the great Rock photographer Andreas Meer - Jon Hammond Band's annual Musikmesse-Session at Jazzkeller-Hofheim, dankeschön Andreas! Jon — at Jazzkeller Hofheim
Hollywood California -- Legendary Singer Songwriter Judy Collins closed out the 1st day of 2013 ASCAP I Create Music Expo - singing and signing (autographs)
- Jon Hammond
Judy's Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Collins
Judith Marjorie Collins
Born May 1, 1939 (age 73)
Origin Seattle, Washington,
United States
Genres Rock and roll, Pop, Folk
Occupations Singer, songwriter, musician, actress
Instruments Vocals, piano, guitar
Years active 1959–present
Labels Elektra Records
Geffen/MCA Records
Mesa Bluemoon/Rhino/Atlantic Records
Wildflower Records
Associated acts Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan
Ian Tyson
Joni Mitchell
Joan Baez
Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk, show tunes, pop, rock and roll and standards) and for her social activism. She is an alumna of MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois.
Musical career
Collins was born in Seattle, Washington, where she spent the first ten years of her life. Her father took a job in Denver in 1949, and the family moved to Colorado. Collins studied classical piano with Antonia Brico, making her public debut at age 13, performing Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos. Brico took a dim view, both then and later, of Collins's developing interest in folk music, which led her to the difficult decision to discontinue her piano lessons. Years later, when Collins had become internationally known through her music, she invited Brico to one of her concerts in Denver. When they met after the performance, Brico took both of Collins' hands in hers, looked wistfully at her fingers and said, "Little Judy—you really could have gone places." Still later, Collins discovered that Brico herself had made a living when she was younger playing jazz and ragtime piano (Singing Lessons, pp. 71–72). She also had the fortune of meeting many musicians through her blind father, a Seattle radio program host.[1]
It was the music of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and the traditional songs of the folk revival of the early 1960s, however, that piqued Collins' interest and awoke in her a love of lyrics. Three years after her debut as a piano prodigy, she was playing guitar. Her music became popular at the University of Connecticut, where her husband taught. She performed at parties and for the campus radio station along with David Grisman and Tom Azarian.[2] She eventually made her way to Greenwich Village, New York City, where she busked and played in clubs until she signed with Elektra Records, a record label she was associated with for 35 years. In 1961, Collins released her first album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow, at the age of 22.[3]
At first she sang traditional folk songs or songs written by others — in particular the protest poets of the time, such as Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan. She recorded her own versions of important songs from the period, such as Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and Pete Seeger's "Turn, Turn, Turn". Collins was also instrumental in bringing little-known musicians to a wider public. For example, she recorded songs by Canadian poet Leonard Cohen, who became a close friend over the years. She also recorded songs by singer-songwriters such as Eric Andersen, Ian Tyson, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Robin Williamson and Richard Fariña long before they gained national acclaim.[4] [5]
While Collins' first few albums comprised straightforward guitar-based folk songs, with 1966's In My Life, she began branching out and including work from such diverse sources as The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Jacques Brel, and Kurt Weill.[5] Mark Abramson produced and Joshua Rifkin arranged the album, adding lush orchestration to many of the numbers. The album was regarded as a major departure for a folk artist and set the course for Collins' subsequent work over the next decade.[6]
With her 1967 album Wildflowers, also produced by Mark Abramson and arranged by Rifkin, Collins began to record her own compositions, beginning with "Since You've Asked". The album also provided Collins with a major hit, and a Grammy award, in Mitchell's "Both Sides, Now", which reached Number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.[7]
Collins' 1968 album, Who Knows Where the Time Goes, was produced by David Anderle and featured back-up guitar by Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills & Nash), with whom she was romantically involved at the time. (She was the inspiration for Stills's CSN classic "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"). Time Goes had a mellow country sound, and included Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon" and the title track written by the UK singer-songwriter Sandy Denny. The album also featured Collins' composition "My Father" and one of the first covers of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire".[8]
By the 1970s Collins had a solid reputation as an art song singer and folksinger and had begun to stand out for her own compositions. She was also known for her broad range of material: her songs from this period include the traditional Christian hymn "Amazing Grace", the Stephen Sondheim Broadway ballad "Send in the Clowns" (both of which were top 20 hits as singles), a recording of Joan Baez's "A Song for David", and her own compositions, such as "Born to the Breed".[9]
In the 1970s Collins guest starred on The Muppet Show,[10] where she sang "Leather-Winged Bat", "I Know An Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly", "Do Re Mi" and "Send in the Clowns". She also appeared several times on Sesame Street, where she performed "Fishermen's Song" with a chorus of Anything Muppet fishermen, sang a trio with Biff and Sully using the word "yes", and even starred in a modern musical fairy tale skit called "The Sad Princess".[11]
She sang the theme song of the Rankin-Bass TV movie The Wind in the Willows.[12]
Judy Collins at the Miami Book Fair International of 1987
In more recent years Collins has taken to writing, producing a memoir, Trust Your Heart, in 1987, and a novel, Shameless. A more recent memoir, Sanity and Grace, tells of her son Clark's death in January 1992. With help from her manager Katherine DePaul she started Wildflower Records. Though her record sales are not what they once were, she still records and tours in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. She performed at President Bill Clinton's first inauguration in 1993, singing "Amazing Grace" and "Chelsea Morning". (The Clintons have stated that they named their daughter, Chelsea, after Collins' recording of the song.) In 2006, she sang "This Little Light of Mine" in a commercial for Eliot Spitzer.[13]
In 2008 she oversaw an album featuring artists ranging from Dolly Parton and Joan Baez to Rufus Wainwright and Chrissie Hynde covering her compositions; she also released a collection of The Beatles covers, and she received an honorary doctorate from Pratt Institute on May 18 of that year. In 2010, Collins sang "The Weight of the World" at the Newport Folk Festival, a song by Amy Speace.[14]
Collins joined the 10th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers.[15][16] She was also a judge for the 7th and 9th Independent Music Awards.[17]
In July 2012, Collins appeared as a guest artist on the Australian SBS television show RocKwiz.[18]
[edit]Activism
Like many other folk singers of her generation, Collins was drawn to social activism. Her political idealism also led her to compose a ballad entitled "Che" in honor of the 1960s Marxist icon Che Guevara.[19]
Collins sympathized with the Yippie movement, and was friendly with its leaders, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. On March 17, 1968, she attended Hoffman's press conference at the Americana Hotel in New York to announce the party's formation. In 1969, she testified in Chicago in support of the Chicago Seven; during her testimony, she began singing Pete Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", and was admonished by prosecutor Tom Foran and judge Julius Hoffman.[20]
She is currently a representative for UNICEF and campaigns on behalf of the abolition of landmines.[21][22]
[edit]Personal life
Collins contracted polio at the age of eleven and spent two months in hospital in isolation.[23]
Collins has been married twice. Her first marriage in 1958 to Peter Taylor produced her only child, Clark C. Taylor. The marriage ended in divorce in 1965.[24]
In 1962, shortly after her debut at Carnegie Hall, Collins was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent six months recuperating in a sanatorium.[25]
Collins later admitted suffering from bulimia after she had quit smoking in the 1970s. "I went straight from the cigarettes into an eating disorder", she told People magazine in 1992. "I started throwing up. I didn't know anything about bulimia, certainly not that it is an addiction or that it would get worse. My feelings about myself, even though I had been able to give up smoking and lose 20 lbs., were of increasing despair." She also talks at length, in Singing Lessons (pp. 172–190, 238–240), about her years of addiction to alcohol, the damage it did to her personal and musical life and how it contributed to her feelings of depression. She says that, although she tried other drugs in the 1960s, alcohol was always her primary drug of choice, just as it had been for her father. She entered a rehabilitation program in Pennsylvania in 1978, and she has maintained her sobriety ever since, even through such traumatic events as the suicide of her only child, Clark. In 1992, he committed suicide at age 33 after a long bout with clinical depression and substance abuse. Since his death, she has also become a strong advocate of suicide prevention.
In April 1996, she married designer and fellow activist Louis Nelson, whom she had been seeing since 1979. They live together in New York City.[26]
Her sister, Holly, was married to actor James Keach and they have a son, Kalen.[27]
[edit]Awards and recognition
Grammy Award, Best Folk Performance or Folk Recording, "Both Sides Now", 1968
Stephen Sondheim won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, "Send in the Clowns", in 1975, it was believed, largely on the strength of Collins' performance of the song on her album Judith[28]
Nominated with Jill Godmilow for an Academy Award for the documentary "Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman" (1975), about her classical piano instructor, conductor Antonia Brico.
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Pratt Institute, May 2009
[edit]Discography
Further information: Judy Collins discography
[edit]Charted singles
Year Song US Hot 100 US A.C. Album
1967 "Hard Lovin' Loser" 97 – In My Life
1968 "Both Sides, Now" 8 3 Wildflowers
1969 "Someday Soon" 55 37 Who Knows Where the Time Goes
1969 "Chelsea Morning" 78 25 (single only)
1969 "Turn! Turn! Turn!/To Everything There Is A Season" 69 28 Recollections
1970 "Amazing Grace" 15 5 Whales & Nightingales
1971 "Open The Door (Song For Judith)" 90 23 Living
1973 "Cook With Honey" 32 10 True Stories and Other Dreams
1973 "Secret Gardens" 122 – True Stories and Other Dreams
1975 "Send In The Clowns" 36 8 Judith
1977 "Send In The Clowns" (re-release) 19 15 Judith
1979 "Hard Times For Lovers" 66 16 Hard Times for Lovers
1984 "Home Again" (duet with T. G. Sheppard) – 42 Home Again
1990 "Fires Of Eden" – 31 Fires Of Eden
[edit]Filmography
Baby's Bedtime (1992)
Baby's Morningtime (1992)
Junior (1994), playing the operator of a spa for pregnant women opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger
Christmas at the Biltmore Estate (1998)
A Town Has Turned to Dust (1998), telefilm based on a Rod Serling science-fiction story
The Best of Judy Collins (1999)
Intimate Portrait: Judy Collins (2000)
Judy Collins Live at Wolf Trap (2003)
Wildflower Festival (2003) (DVD with guest artists Eric Andersen, Arlo Guthrie, and Tom Rush)
Girls (TV, 2013), series 2, episode 8: "It's Back"
[edit]Bibliography
Trust Your Heart (1987)
Amazing Grace (1991)
Shameless (1995)
Singing Lessons (1998)
Sanity and Grace: A Journey of Suicide, Survival and Strength (2003)
The Seven T's : Finding Hope and Healing in the Wake of Tragedy (2007)
Sweet Judy Blue Eyes : my life in music (2011) ISBN 0-307-71734-8 OCLC 699763852
**Just a few days before:
2013 Frankfurt Musikmesse Action World's Largest Musical Instruments Show and ProLight + Sound 27th Year Jon Hammond on the scene
Jon Hammond Band last night - Musikmesse Warm Up Party
Chocolate Chocolate Cake baked by Saray Pastnesi Bakery on Mainzer Landstrasse FFM
- Musikmesse Warm Up Party 2013 very special friends in Jazzkeller Frankfurt - thank you so much everybody for joining us for celebrating 27 years Musikmesse and 60 year birthday boy cake action with Jon Hammond Band, Tony Lakatos tenor saxophone, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar and Jon at the Sk1 Hammond organ - we're going to do it again next year in 2014!
L to R: Joe Lamond President CEO of NAMM, Jon Hammond, Joe Berger
Betty Heywood, NAMM director of International Affairs and Jon Hammond at Musikmesse Warm Up Party - Jazzkeller Frankfurt
Chocolate Chocolate cake action - Super Jenny cutting cake - many thanks Super Jenny!
- Musikmesse Warm Up Party 2013 very special friends in Jazzkeller Frankfurt - thank you so much everybody for joining us for celebrating 27 years Musikmesse and 60 year birthday boy cake action with Jon Hammond Band, Tony Lakatos tenor saxophone, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar and Jon at the Sk1 Hammond organ - we're going to do it again next year in 2014!
The Best Baker in Frankfurt delivered personally my birthday / 27 year Musikmesse Warm Up Party chocolate chocolate cake last night to Jazzkeller Frankfurt, dankeschön! Jon Hammond - Day 1 Musikmesse kicking it off folks, JH
Musikmesse Warm Up Party 2013 very special friends in Jazzkeller Frankfurt - thank you so much everybody for joining us for celebrating 27 years Musikmesse and 60 year birthday boy cake action with Jon Hammond Band, Tony Lakatos tenor saxophone, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar and Jon at the Sk1 Hammond organ - we're going to do it again next year in 2014! — at Jazzkeller
Tony Lakatos, Jon Hammond, Totó Giovanni Gulino, Joe Berger Musikmesse Warm Up Party 2013 very special friends in Jazzkeller Frankfurt
- thank you so much everybody for joining us for celebrating 27 years Musikmesse and 60 year birthday boy cake action with Jon Hammond Band, Tony Lakatos tenor saxophone, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar and Jon at the Sk1 Hammond organ - we're going to do it again next year in 2014!
MY HOME AWAY FROM HOME
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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 ein.
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.
Wie würden Sie Ihr persönliches Verhältnis zu Deutschland und Frankfurt beschrieben?
Lassen Sie es mich so sagen: ich liebe Frankfurt und die Frankfurter waren immer gut zu mir in all den Jahren. Ich könnte ein ganzes Buch über die Zeit schreiben, in der ich in Bornheim wohnte und Nacht für Nacht in der alten Jazzkneipe in der Berliner Straße auftrat. Das war der Treffpunkt, wo auch die Musiker der HR Bigband hinkamen und es gab eine generöse Chefin in der kleinen Kneipe. Auch Regine Dobberschütz und Eugen Hahn im Jazzkeller waren wahre Jazzengel für mich, die mir so vieles ermöglichten in der Zeit. Wir konnten auch in den Studios von AFN Radio spielen, waren die einzigen Musiker, die das - mit einer Sondergenehmigung des US Militärs - durften. 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 Giovanni Gulino, diesen tollen Schlagzeuger, der schon für fast alle Großen der Szene getrommelt hat. Ich liebe diese Jungs. Als Gitarrist ist mein alten Freund und Kollege Joe Berger dabei, den man auch als The Berger-Meister kennt. Auf diese Formation bin ich wirklich stolz.
Werden Sie im Jazzkeller wieder eine Hammond Orgel spielen?
Ja, sicher, das neueste Modell, eine Sk1, die exakt so klingt wie die legendäre B3. Ich liebe sie. Und sie wiegt nur noch sieben Kilo (Anm. des Autors: Das Original, ein echtes Möbel mit viel Holz, mussten immer zwei Menschen mit viel Muskelkraft die Treppen rauf und runter hieven), ein deutliches Indiz, dass wir in der Zukunft angekommen sind. Da stecken viele Jahre Forschung und Entwicklung drin, auch Bühnenerprobungen. Ich ziehe den Hut vor den Ingenieuren von Suzuki, ein unverwüstliches Instrument erschaffen zu haben. Und das unterziehe ich jetzt einen echten Härttest (lacht).
27. März 2013 Interview: Detlef Kinsler
photo: Detlef Kinsler and Jon Hammond in Jazzkeller
Web: www.jazzkeller.com / www.jonhammondband.com
Power Shot - P.Mauriat FMS 2013 Team - Blues and Jazz Session with the great P.Mauriat Artists and Jon Hammond at Sk1 Hammond organ - big special thanks to main man Alex Mingmann Hsieh! - Jon Hammond — with Reiner Witzel, Klaus Wangorsch, André de Laat, Pmauriat Albest, Agnieszka Obrebska and PMauriat Saxophones at musikmesse
The next hot shot tenor player folks! At P.Mauriat stand H4.1 E71 Frankfurt Musikmesse 2013
- Jon Hammond — with P Mauriat HQ and Pmauriat Albest
Wolfgang Lücke Fearless Leader Direktor of Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound world's biggest Music Trade Show and Jon Hammond on last day of the fair - it is a monster job, Wolfgang and his mighty team pulled it off to perfection like every year - and like his name says, brings Good Luck to me and all the family of Music Exhibitors, thanks a million / dankeschön Wolfgang and Team! We will meet again in Shanghai Messefrankfurt Music-China - totally rockin' show once again! - Jon
— with Wolfgang Lücke at musikmesse
Name this great saxophonist Folks! P.Mauriat Blues and Jazz Session Day 3 in 2013 Musikmesse with Jon Hammond at the organ
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- *It's Mike Smith from Chicago folks! JH
Paul de Laat:
Morgen op de Musikmesse!!!! Play it bro!!! ;) — with Arno Haas, Jon Hammond, André de Laat and Tony Lakatos
Róbert Murányi Tony Lakatos a plakát közepén... a magyar szaxis viszi a hátán a csapatot?
Thank you for posting the Plakat of P.Mauriat Blues & Jazz booth session Paul de Laat - your brother plays wonderfully and is a very nice cat!
all the best,
Jon Hammond
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Power shot: Ludovic Beier the great Accordion and Accordina virtuoso Roland V-Accordion Artist, Jon Hammond and Suzuki Instruments Executives Shigeyuki Ohtaka and President Shuji Suzuki on last day of 2013 Frankfurt Musikmesse
- check out my interview with Ludovic and his performances on Youtube http://youtu.be/aoSYDrWRrok
LUDOVIC BEIER chromatic accordion virtuoso Jazz Musician from France is Jon's guest here on HammondCast
Saxophone Mouthpiece builder Rafy Navarro with Jon Hammond and Tony Lakatos - Rafy also makes Bob Mintzer's mouthpiece - Frankfurt Musikmesse 2013
— with Tony Lakatos at musikmesse
Pigini / Excelsior Accordion Friends at 2013 Musikmesse
L to R: Roberto Lucanero, Massimo Pigini, Jon Hammond, Federico Pigini *note: Excelsior in back of my head is similar to the one I play, magnificent hand-crafted instruments! *2nd image Heinz Aumüller Excelsior Deutschland and Jon Hammond -
Keys To Happiness Excelsior Accordions Hand Built in Castelfidardo Italy – USA Artist Jon Hammond
http://hammondcast.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/keys-to-happiness-excelsior-accordions-usa-artist-jon-hammond/ — with
with Roberto Lucanero
Preview of some of the photographs of the great Rock Photographer Andreas Meer of Jon Hammond Band playing 18th consecutive year Musikmesse-Session in Jazzkeller-Hofheim - it was a great night, thank you to all the folks who joined us including Gisela Stang Bürgermeisterin der Stadt Hofheim, wonderful Team of Jazzkeller-Hofheim and these musicians: Peter Klohmann tenor saxophone, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums, Joe Berger aka The Berger-Meister guitar and Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond organ - thank you so much for documenting our concert Andreas! Jon Hammond
http://www.jonhammondband.com
Back at The Jazzkeller Hofheim for 18th consecutive year - and it's starting to rain outside big time *second image with good friend long-time Jazzkeller Hofheimer Konrad Neupert so great to see Konrad again thanks/dankeschön Konrad! Jon Hammond
Just as I arrived at Jazzkeller-Hofheim it started raining cats and dogs!
Power Photo! L to R: Michael Falkenstein fearless Leader of Hammond Germany with is wonderful lady Super Jenny Jennifer Schiele, Joe Berger The Berger-Meister, Shuji Suzuki President of Suzuki Musical Instruments makers of my Hammond organ and myself Jon Hammond as we all meet in the busy hall of 2013 Frankfurt Musikmesse yesterday!
— with Michael Falkenstein, Jennifer Schiele and Joe Berger
Photo by Andreas Meer
Jazzkeller Hofheim - incredible great Jazz-night with Jon Hammond, Totó Giovanni Gulino drums, Peter Klohmann tenor saxophone, Joe Berger guitar at Sk1 Hammond orgel - Fr. 12.04. Musikmesse-Session mit Jon Hammond Band — with Joe Berger, Jon Hammond Organ Group, Totó Giovanni Gulino, Jon Hammond Band, Peter Klohmann and Jon Hammond
P Mauriat Blues and Jazz session with Jon Hammond and P.Mauriat artists Day 3 at 2013 Musikmesse, Going For The Sound!
P.Mauriat: "Thank you for visiting and see you in China":
http://www.pmauriatmusic.com/en/news/4-events-news/262-thank-you-for-visiting-and-see-you-in-music-china
Hofheim am Taunus -- Great night in history - Gisela Stang Bürgermeisterin der Stadt Hofheim meets Berger-Meister (Joe Berger) - Jon Hammond Band in Jazzkeller Hofheim
L to R: Joe Berger aka Berger-Meister, Gisela Stang, Totó Giovanni Gulino, Peter Kohmann, Joe Berger is happy about this...and we all are, go Gisela in the election, keep up the great work in Hofheim am Taunus! - Jon Hammond — with Joe Berger, Gisela Stang, Jon Hammond Band, Totó Giovanni Gulino and Peter Klohmann
The great Music Photographer Documentarian Andreas Meer and Jon Hammond on last day of Musikmesse 2013 - I am so happy and blessed that main man Andreas came directly from Paris to our concert last night in Jazzkeller Hofheim and shot incredible photos, documented the entire event, merci beaucoup...and thank you very much Andreas! Some photos will be coming soon, wow this is so super, Andreas Meer is one of the greatest Rock photographers in the world!
Thanks a million Andreas!
Jon Hammond and Band
— at musikmesse
Power Shot: with Ludovic Beier my favorite accordionist, accordina virtuoso and the Father of Roland V-Accordion and Jon Hammond on last day of Frankfurt Musikmesse 2013, bravo Ludovic! Jon
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— with Ludovic Beier at musikmesse
Big big congratulations to my friend Chan Mei Leng on the Grand Opening of her wonderful new "Selera Malaysian Restaurant" located very close to the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof on Muenchenerstr. 52, the food is fantastic - wishing you many successes long long time Leng and Selera Team!
Jon Hammond — with Chan Mei Leng at Selera Malaysian Restaurant Muenchenerstr. 52 Frankfurt am Main
Power Photo! L to R: Michael Falkenstein fearless Leader of Hammond Germany with is wonderful lady Super Jenny Jennifer Schiele, Joe Berger The Berger-Meister, Shuji Suzuki President of Suzuki Musical Instruments makers of my Hammond organ and myself Jon Hammond as we all meet in the busy hall of 2013 Frankfurt Musikmesse yesterday!
The Pointers! - Jon Hammond and Tony Lakatos saxophonist extraordinaire just about ready to hit at P.Mauriat Blues and Jazz Session 2013 Musikmesse
- Special thanks TecAmp/THC amplification!
Thomas Eich TecAmp / TCH Amplifiers and Jon Hammond
Thomas Eich, TecAmp, Bespeco, Musikmesse, P.Mauriat, Tony Lakatos, Chocolate Cake, Warm Up Party, Funky Jazz, Blues, Sk1 Organ, Jon Hammond
ASCAP Expo, Hollywood California, Judy Collins, Paul Williams, 8th annual, songwriters, musicians, open bar, hors d'oeuvres, Pop music, Jazz, Blues, Classical, Board of Directors, Lauren Iossa, Marketing Director
