48 Minute Documentary Jazz Movie Big Band With Organist Jon Hammond

*WATCH THE MOVIE HERE: 48 Minute Documentary Jazz Movie Big Band With Organist Jon Hammond Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/48MinuteDocumentaryJazzMovieBigBandWithOrganistJonHammond by Jon Hammond 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 Photographs Courtesy of Elmar Lemes Youtube https://youtu.be/2mcykc-OHTg these are the names I know at this time - more coming: Mike Campenni drums, Charles Lee a.s., Jim Piela a.s., Bob Rosen t.s., David Zalud trpt., Greg Ruvolo trpt. Todd Anderson t.s., Jon Hammond Hammond Sk1 org., Art Baron trombone, Pat Hall trmb., Alfredo Marques trmb., - entire session documentary ©JON HAMMOND International / Todd Anderson ASCAP / BMI - additional info http://www.HammondCast.com as seen on Manhattan Neighborhood Network Channel 1 community channel and streaming worldwide, late Fri. nights / early Sat. morning at 1:30 AM Eastern Standard Time - Associated Musicians of Greater New York Local 802, Jon is also a dual member of AFM Local 6 Musicians Union San Francisco - the date of this session was October 20, 2015 Jon's Journal - Logic Pro X - Apple Logic Recording / Playing workshop at The Beacon School conducted by Mark Via w/spcl. guests Joe Berger and yours' truly Jon Hammond (behind camera & organ: Put up a little tent that says "Free Cell Phones" and the people will come flocking! Maybe it's a good name for a band these days - Jon Hammond Real nice old car just blew my doors off on the 280 Freeway! He had the hammer down, looking real sharp, Jon Hammond Hamburg Germany -- Route 66 Hamburg Street P.R. Team - Mr. Berger and Mr. Hammond, thanks for the super cool T-Shirts Jens! They've been seen on TV and all over the place. 'Return of The Student' - 40 years later! Jon Hammond sits down with his piano teacher Tony Germain at Berklee College of Music in Boston MA exactly 40 years to the day that they first sat down at the piano together at 1140 Boylston Street in the Beantown - excellent interview! As seen on The Jon Hammond Show - MNN TV - Manhattan Neighborhood Network Channel 1 - TV Producers of Manhattan Neighborhood Network [MNN] *LINK: https://www.facebook.com/hammondcast/videos/10153098437422102/ High Definition Video inside Tony's Office at 1140 Boylston Street Boston - the old Berklee College of Music building Classic episode of Jon Hammond Show known as Val Hal Jazz Pub Special - for my friends in Brooklyn by Brooklyn Academy of Music / BAM and Junior's Restaurant & Cheesecake deli where the notorious Val Hal Jazz Pub used to me - actual audio from Val Hal gig - Jon Hammond *LINK: https://www.facebook.com/hammondcast/videos/10153098404357102/ Lazy Larry in the house...one of this century's most important writers since James Joyce! *as seen on MNN TV Jon Hammond Show Jon Hammond Flashback -- as seen on The Jon Hammond Show: THE NEGATIVES Featuring Crazy Barry (everything) and Lazy Larry (nothing)! MNN Ch. 1 Manhattan Neighborhood Network https://youtu.be/oMEMSbTl2Lo Anaheim CA -- it was great meeting Rafael Feliciano at end of last NAMM Show...close friend of my friend Raul Rekow, I knew that Raul had been ill lately but I am shocked to hear he just died, this is terrible! Raul was the most healthy cat I ever met, terrible loss! So saddened to hear about, sorry for your loss Rafael and all the people who knew this great great Conguero! rest in peace Raul, Jon Hammond 2nd image - My friend Raul Rekow on the Carlos Santana Band with Carlos onstage there, Alex Ligertwood was on the band then...I shot this in Paris 1981 - Jon Hammond R.I.P. Eddie Sorenson - Levittown Long Island New York *in middle in this photo, L to R: Jon Hammond, Eddie Sorenson, Eddie Money. I was in a band with the 2 Eddie's in 1970-'71, Eddie was an excellent guitarist and vocalist. My deepest condolences go out to the Sorenson Family, Eddie Money and all Eddie's friends. I have just been informed of this very sad news Eddie Sorenson has died. Sincerely, Jon *Photo at BB King's NYC, either on Eddie's bus or backstage - JH Still my favorite version Hammond Organ 80th Anniversary Docu Film International projekt directed by main man Tino Pavlis! From Sandweg in Frankfurt to Hamamatsu Japan, Chicago and Anaheim California folks! - Jon Hammond​ http://blog.sfgate.com/jon-hammond/2015/08/14/tinos-hammond-organ-80th-anniversary-film-documentary-trailer/ - Keeping the tradition Tino! and we had a lot of fun, much more coming too! - JH spcl. thanks / dankeschön Joe Berger, Michael Falkenstein, Professor Klaus Maier founder of Hammond Deutschland, musikmesse​, The NAMM Show​, Suzuki Musical Instruments​ Team - International project coming to a theater near you soon! - the sound at the heart of Funk Soul Blues Gospel and don't forget Classical and Theater Organ - with original music from Jon Hammond Band​ coast to coast and around the world! Jon Hammond​ Apple iTunes Podcast FEED https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hammondcast-show/id97154584?mt=2 Funk Soul Blues and Soft News - thanks Apple Inc.​ Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/EastsideSoundSessionLydiasTune Youtube https://youtu.be/r8A9ABjKe6k "Lydia's Tune" by Jon Hammond - organ trio session at Eastside Sound Studios with Joe Berger guitar, Lou Holtzman drums, Jon Hammond at the Hammond Sk1 organ - Sunday afternoon session, special thanks Lou & Mimi Holtzman, Duff Harris and Marcus assisting ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP http://www.HammondCast.com Joe, Lou, Jon CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1228515 Jon Hammond Band Facebook https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1022871057741691&set=vb.133709526657853&type=3&theater Vimeo https://vimeo.com/123362512 AFM Local 6: http://afm6.org/member-profile/jon-hammond-wheres-the-gig/ 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 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. 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 NAMM - JON HAMMOND FUNK UNIT https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2016/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit-0 Jon Hammond Organ / Organist Leader Joe Berger guitar / guitarist Dom Famularo drums / drummer Alex Budman Tenor Saxophone / Saxophonist Koei Tanaka Chromatic Harmonica / Master Chromatic Harmonica Player Chuggy Carter Percussion / Percussionist Genre: Rock Website: http://www.jonhammondband.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonhammondband Endorsed By: Hammond Suzuki Artist Bio: *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: #TheNAMMShow "White Onions" Jon Hammond Funk Unit NAMM Showcase Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/TheNAMMShowWhiteOnionsJonHammondFunkUnitNAMMShowcase Youtube http://youtu.be/EKavYAXYYw4 ‪#‎TheNAMMShow‬ "White Onions" Jon Hammond Funk Unit NAMM Showcase lunch set https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2015/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit 23rd 2015 reprising 1989 Late Rent Sessions recording ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP with special guest Bernard Purdie drums, Leslie J. Carter percussion Jon Hammond organ (original members on record) featuring Koei Tanaka chromatic harmonica from Tokyo Japan Suzuki world star, Joe Berger guitar JJ guitars, Alex Budman tenor saxophone Dom Famularo returning to the NAMM Stage - special thanks NAMM President CEO Joe Lamond, KHS Hercules folding stands - congratulations KHS America: Announces Acquisition of Hohner Inc. USA KHS America, Inc. has announced plans to acquire Hohner Inc. from Matth. Hohner GmbH in Trossingen, Germany. Hohner, Inc. is the exclusive North American provider of Hohner branded Harmonicas, Accordians, Melodicas, Guitars and Bluegrass Instruments; SONOR Drums and Orff Instruments, Lanikai and Kohala Ukuleles, H. Jimenez Guitars, Hohner Airboard, as well as Hohner Kids and Greentones children’s instrument brands. Transfer of ownership will take place today, January 12, 2015 - Jupiter Wind Instruments, XO Professional Brass, Mapex Drums, Majestic Concert Percussion, Hercules Stands and Aaltus Professional Flutes, the new KHS America Vimeo http://vimeo.com/117661543 CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1208955 Jon Hammond Funk Unit Facebook https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152557856517102 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Hammond Organ NAMM Extravaganza to take place Friday January 23 2015 Center Stage 12 Noon All Star Band Anaheim Convention Center -- Hammond Organ NAMM Extravaganza to take place Friday January 23 2015 Center Stage 12 Noon All Star Band Jon Hammond Funk Unit - featuring the incredible Dom Famularo drumming legend, from Tokyo Japan Koei Tanaka aka Suzuki Santa on harmonica, tenor saxophonist Alex Budman, The Wild Man aka Berger-meister Joe Berger guitar, original member of Jon Hammond & The Late Rent Session Men: Leslie J. Carter aka Chuggy Carter on percussion and Leader Jon Hammond at the Hammond Organ for a very special Lunch Set Showcase on the NAMM Center Stage on Center Patio of Anaheim Convention Center by the excellent BBQ - special thanks to Bespeco Accessori (Musical Accessories) from Castelfidardo Italy, JJ Guitars of UK, Suzuki Musical Instruments, Sabian Cymbals, Sennheiser Discover True Sound, P.Mauriat Pmauriat Albest Saxophones, Bernies Music Land, Australian Music Association - as seen on MNN TV Channel 1 The Jon Hammond Show 31st Year Manhattan the Bronx and Streaming World Wide - Swinging Funky Jazz and Blues - member publisher ASCAP, Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM, Local 6 Musicians Union of San Francisco CA - Excelsior Accordions - HammondCast Radio and TV https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2015/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit Performance Info 48 Minute Documentary Movie, Jazz Big Band, Orchestra, Todd Anderson, Arrangements, Friends Seminary, Meetinghouse, Bob Rosen, Jon Hammond, Organist, #HammondOrgan #AFMLocal6