Hammond Report June 3 2020 From Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond

by: Jon Hammond

Hammond Report June 3 2020 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - my daily check in folks, original music and stories from the old organ grinder accordion squeezer!

Today's music and stories start in good old Kimball's East in Emeryville CA, live recording of my band back in Oct. 11th of 1998 after I returned from living in Europe. With the help of my friend Scott Rootenberg we brought Bernard Purdie out from New Jersey - I played 2 nights, this one in Kimball's and Scott's Club The Cocodrie in North Beach SF - my tune "Hip Hop Chitlins" aka Nu Funk with Barry Finnerty in the string section and Bennett Friedman t.s. - then a 1981 recording I did for DTI Records of my tune "Get Back In The Groove" with Frank Biner on vocals and guitar and yours truly at the B3 organ and covering the bass as well. Stay safe out there everybody, a change is gonna' come!!

Publication date: 2020-06-03

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Topics: Hammond Report, Original Music, Stories, Kimball's East, Cocodrie, Hammond B3 organ, Bernard Purdie, Get Back in The Groove, Nu Funk

Language: English

Addeddate: 2020-06-03 18:38:12

Identifier: hammond-report-june-3-2020-from-pandemic-quarantino-jon-hammond

How Are We Coping With Self Isolation: Insight From Around the Country And The World With Jon Hammond #Coping https://t2conline.com/how-are-we-coping-with-self-isolation-insight-from-around-the-country-and-the-world-with-jon-hammond/ Jon Hammond plays organ, accordion, piano and guitar. He attended Berklee College of Music Hammond performs in hospitals, nursing homes and prisons every month in addition to concerts world-wide. He is one of the premier B3 players in the world, playing professionally since age 12. Beginning as a solo accordionist, he later played the 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. In Boston he played the “Combat Zone” and in the striptease clubs during the ’70’s and the exclusive Wychmere Harbor Club in Cape Cod, where he was house organist and developed a lasting friendship with House Speaker Tip O’Neill. He toured the Northeast and Canada with the successful show revue “Easy Living”, and continued his appearances in Boston, New York. and Europe. In 1981 Jon formed BackBeat Productions and his TV show “The Jon Hammond Show” became a Manhattan Cable TV favorite. Jon’s “Live on the street” saw him with Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Butterfield, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Sledge and many others. The weekly show is now in it’s 23rd year and has influenced the broadcasts of David Letterman and others. Billboard Magazine hailed Jon’s show as “The Alternative to MTV”. The Jon Hammond Show can be seen worldwide at various times streaming T2C: What has this time stopped you from accomplishing? Jon Hammond: I’m a long-time performer in nursing homes & hospitals, we can no longer deliver the music, and I had annual gigs in Europe canceled for first time in over 30 years. T2C: If you were to equate this time to a song or song cycle what would it be? Jon Hammond: I wrote a song some years ago to play in annual San Francisco County Jail gig, it is entitled: “Soon I Will Be Free” – sort of apropos during this time as we are waiting out a lot of things.