Donald Meade Jazz Historian Film Hang JEN Atlanta with Jon Hammond Javon Jackson Larry Ridley Martin Mueller Joe Chambers

#WATCHMOVIE HERE: RIP Donald Meade Griot Jazz Historian filmed by Jon Hammond Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondDonaldMeadeImpromptuJazzStoriesatJENConferenceAtlanta Views 111 #111 Youtube https://youtu.be/pF3Rl3H-u1k 67 views #67 Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Topics Jazz Griot, Donald Meade, JEN Atlanta, Historian, Impromptu, Education, Chitlin Circuit Atlanta GA -- Jazz Historian Donald Meade here at the Jazz Education Network conference 2013 telling some wonderful jazz stories, and actually explains how the Chitlin Circuit got it's name! This was totally impromptu at a table including Jon Hammond, Javon Jackson, Joe Chambers, and Martin W. Mueller from The New School for Contemporary & Jazz Music - listening to Jazz Griot Award Recipient Donald Meade tell these fascinating stories in his engaging style, enjoy folks! Jon Hammond http://hammondcast.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/us-army-blues-pershings-own-precious-lord-take-my-hand-at-jen-2013-atlanta-jons-journal-january-8-2013/ Jazz Griot, Donald Meade, JEN Atlanta, Historian, Impromptu, Education, Chitlin Circuit H.264 download download 1 file OGG VIDEO download download 1 file QUICKTIME download download 1 file TORRENT download download 20 Files download 4 Original Producer Jon Hammond Donald Meade Jazz Griot December 8, 1928 - May 22, 2015 Meade, born December 8, 1928 in Joliet Illinois, was raised in Joliet and later in the Watertown area of East Moline during the time when jazz was coming of age. Meade speaks fondly of growing up musically in the time of Duke Ellington. Nat Cole. Pat Patrick. Louis Armstrong. Clark Terry- and many other pioneers and innovators of the day. He has been a lifelong friend and confidant to many of the jazz legends and innovators, and has traveled extensively with jazz giants such as Ed Thigpen. Ray Brown. Oscar Peterson. Milt Jackson. Cedar Walton, the Heath Brothers. Art Farmer, and Ella Fitzgerald to name a few. "At one time jazz was the popular music" he says. A friend and mentor to many, as well as a great jazz historian, Donald “Papa” Meade passed away on May 22, 2015. Donald's spirit and dreams live on through those friends, mentees and the recipients of the Donald Meade Griot Award. -- RIP my friend Ron Polte - manager of Quicksilver, Ace of Cups, Wild West Fest - Jon Hammond (my band opened for Copperhead on one of the very few live gigs they played in 1972 at The Longbranch Saloon) Tam Junction and Piatti Mill Valley Restaurant - Breakfast with Ron, rest in peace Ron Polte - Jon Hammond : *Note: We had a lot of fun in the old days at 759 Harrison Street San Francisco when we shared rehearsal space with The Quicksilver Messenger Service at Bruce Hatch's San Francisco Radical Laboratories aka SF Rad Lab in years 1968 / 1969 (not to be confused with radiation lab folks! I am still in touch with QSM guitarist Gary Duncan, sending my condolences Gary! - JH *Note: This was Ron's big project some years ago folks: http://jonhammondband.com/blog.html/jon_hammond_reflections_on_wild_west_festival/ JON HAMMOND REFLECTIONS ON WILD WEST FESTIVAL - LINK: http://kernelpanichammondcast.blogspot.com/2016/09/wow-folks-i-was-there-jon-hammond.html Wow folks, I was there! This was very nearly the biggest Rock Music Festival that almost happened - it was very close. I went to many meetings with Ron Polte and a lot of very heavy San Francisco Rock bands were down to play the "Wild West Festival" (1969) Posters were already made up, we had meetings in the Zoetrope building now owned by Francis Ford Coppola and The Straight Theatre on Haight Street - Ron Polte was part owner of Straight Theatre in addition to being the manager of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ace of Cups and for a time Sons of Champlin as well. I highly recommend watching and listening to this very rare footage of the press conference with Big Daddy Tom Donahue speaking about the project - Jon Hammond Band​ photo by Jon Hammond​ - breakfast with Ron I just saw Ron's obit by Paul Liberatore​ in the Marin IJ: http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20160916/NEWS/160919827 "Quicksilver Quicksilver Messenger Service - Band​ manager Ron Polte dies in Mill Valley at 84" " By Paul Liberatore, Marin Independent Journal Posted: 09/16/16, 5:53 PM PDT | Updated: 6 hrs ago Ron Polte, who managed the psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service and the all-female quintet the Ace of Cups during the glory days of the San Francisco Sound, died Wednesday at his longtime home in Mill Valley. He was 84. Mr. Polte had been suffering from multiple health problems and had been under Hospice care since May, said his wife of 20 years, Sally Robert. “He was a good man,” said Quicksilver band member David Freiberg, speaking by phone from Florida while on tour with the Jefferson Starship. “I could always trust him to do what he thought was right.” Born on the south side of Chicago into a family of nine children, Mr. Polte had a tough childhood, but managed to turn his life around after being in and out of trouble with the law as a teenager, his wife said. In Chicago, he became friends with blues singer-songwriter Nick Gravenites (“Born in Chicago,” “Buried Alive in the Blues”) when they were teenagers and followed him out to San Francisco in the early 1960s. They were the first of the Chicago blues crowd, including Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop and Mark Naftalin of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, to relocate in the Bay Area, most of them settling in Marin and Sonoma counties. In 1967, Mr. Polte took over management of Quicksilver and the Ace of Cups after their original manager, Ambrose Hollingworth, was seriously injured in a car crash near Muir Beach. “When we needed somebody, there he was,” Freiberg said. Quicksilver was the last of the San Francisco hippie bands to ink a major label deal when they signed with Capitol Records in late 1967. “He took it slow and steady and wouldn’t take a deal if he didn’t think it was right,” Freiberg recalled. “It took a while, but we got a really good deal with Capitol.” Mr. Polte was known as a dutiful and resourceful manager who did what he could to meet the needs of the young musicians in his bands. Freiberg remembered that when he and his Quicksilver bandmates were living together in a house in Mill Valley, they informed him of their desire to move onto a farm in the country with a barn where they could rehearse. Mr. Polte wasted no time making that wish come true. “Within a week and a half, we were living on an old dairy farm in Olema,” Freiberg recalled, chuckling. “He really cared about making sure everybody was taken care of.” Diane Vitalich of Novato, drummer for the Ace of Cups, recalled that when she and her bandmates needed transportation, Mr. Polte went to an auction of state vehicles at San Quentin and bought cars for all of them. “He bought us five 1963 Dodge Darts,” she said. “They were all blue and all looked the same.” During this time, Mr. Polte started Westpole, a booking agency that handled Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, the Sons of Champlin and other seminal Bay Area rock groups. He’s also credited with inspiring the name of the band Electric Flag, a short-lived supergroup formed by Bloomfield, Gravenites, keyboardist Barry Goldberg, bassist Harvey Brooks and drummer Buddy Miles. According to Gravenites, Quicksilver had somehow come into possession of a light-up electric flag after a gig at a veterans hall. “He brought it over to where we were all living and rehearsing in Tam Valley,” he recalled. “We plugged it in and it lit up and started waving. We said, ‘Hey, look at that. Let’s call ourselves the Electric Flag.’” Eventually, Mr. Polte escaped from the hard living and tumult of the music business, spending time on a remote lodge in the New Mexico wilderness owned by Frank Werber, the charismatic manager of the Kingston Trio and owner of the Trident, a legendary Sausalito restaurant. Through it all, he never lost the values that defined the ‘60s generation in San Francisco. “All the altruistic thinking that came out of that era he agreed with a thousand percent,” Gravenites said. “He remained a firm defender of all the idealism from those years.” In addition to his wife, Mr. Polte is survived by two daughters, Pamela Polte of Sutter Creek, Amador County, and Patti Ann Lindecker of Chicago; two sons, Thomas Polte of Chicago and Jeremy Polte of Dunsmuir, Siskiyou County, and two sisters, Marilyn McMinn and Nancy Brunanchon of Pine Grove, Amador County. A private memorial service is being planned. " JON HAMMOND REFLECTIONS ON WILD WEST FESTIVAL - LINK: http://kernelpanichammondcast.blogspot.com/2016/09/wow-folks-i-was-there-jon-hammond.html Wow folks, I was there! This was very nearly the biggest Rock Music Festival that almost happened - it was very close. I went to many meetings with Ron Polte and a lot of very heavy San Francisco Rock bands were down to play the "Wild West Festival" (1969) Posters were already made up, we had meetings in the Zoetrope building now owned by Francis Ford Coppola and The Straight Theatre on Haight Street - Ron Polte was part owner of Straight Theatre in addition to being the manager of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ace of Cups and for a time Sons of Champlin as well. I highly recommend watching and listening to this very rare footage of the press conference with Big Daddy Tom Donahue speaking about the project - Jon Hammond *long-time member Local 6 Musicians Union (but not then!) *LINK: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/201631 **From KQED piece: " KQED News report from 1969 featuring a press conference by Tom Donahue (1928-75), who discusses the Wild West Rock Festival that was to have taken place in Golden Gate Park but was cancelled due to protests by locals. Donahue believes that even though the concert never happened, this was a positive experience for the San Francisco community. He states that: "We also felt that a great deal of the good things that have come out of the artistic community in this country have originated in San Francisco. That it's a starting point. Thay may sound chauvanistic but I also think it's the truth." Ends with brief comments from another spokesman, who refers to the "unecessary and ... unwarranted paranoia" that the Wild West project had to deal with. It is worth noting that Donahue was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a non-peformer, one of only three disc jockeys to receive that honor to date (2011). Tags: golden gate park, kqn 486, news cameras, rock concerts, ron polte, tom donahue, wild west festival Added to San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive on November 18, 2011. " Tom Donahue on the Wild West Festival (1969) (Updated over a year ago) Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondChicoHamiltononHammondCastKYOURadio Views 747 #747 Youtube https://youtu.be/wBJf8J9lNik 1,109 views #1109 Drummer, Bandleader, NEA Jazz Master Award Recipient CHICO HAMILTON on HammondCast KYOU Radio, excerpted from interview by Jon Hammond, organist and host of HammondCast Show 7 mornings a week on KYOU. ©2008 *Info: http://www.HammondCast.com Jon's MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jonhammondshow Visit Chico's MySpace site: http://www.myspace.com/chicohamilton Most Important Jazz Photos In Recent History by Jon Hammond and Film: http://kernelpanichammondcast.blogspot.com/2016/09/most-important-jazz-photos-in-recent.html Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Topics Chico Hamilton, Drums, NEA, Jazz Master, Jon Hammond, Fred Katz, Sammy Davis Jr., Fred Astaire, HammondCast, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Danny Kaye, KYOU Radio 512KB MPEG4 download download 1 file MPEG4 download download 1 file OGG VIDEO download download 1 file TORRENT download download 28 Files download 5 Original 9/11/2016 -- SFO International Airport is lit up in the Red White and Blue tonight in honor of and tribute to 9/11 folks, god bless the souls of those lost - Jon Hammond Donald Meade, Jazz Historian, Archive, #JEN #GRIOT #Jazz #HammondOrgan #Atlanta

Preview of Jon Hammond Show broadcast for 03/19

*WATCH THE TV SHOW HERE: Preview of Jon Hammond Show broadcast Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/6842260319 Preview of Jon Hammond Show broadcast for 03/19 editEdit by Jon Hammond Published March 14, 2016 Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics Lutz Büchner, NDR-bigband, Horns, Auster Bar, Jon Hammond Band, NDR SESSIONS Projekt, Hamburg, #CableTV #HammondOrgan #CNNiReport Remembering our good friend Lutz Büchner on this broadcast! Jon Hammond Show preview broadcast - first segment: Lutz Büchner​ - first solo up: Lutz! https://archive.org/details/PocketFunkWithNDRHornsAusterJazz Pocket Funk With NDR Horns Auster Jazz Filmed in High Definition by Jon Hammond As Seen On MNN TV Manhattan Neighborhood Network​ The Jon Hammond Show - Filmed in High Definition - Pocket Funk with NDR Horns - Jon Hammond Band special Auster Bar​ Jazz Series - musical director Michael Leuschner trumpet, Lutz Büchner tenor saxophone, Fiete Felsch alto saxophone, Funky Heinz Lichius drums feature on this one, Joe Berger guitar, Jon Hammond organ + bass http://www.HammondCast.com/ special thanks dankeschön to Knut Simon and Lukas Aaron Hambrecht AutoBild Redaktion Team for bringing the Borgward, Nicolai Ditsch for operating the camera (also a fine drummer) and all the Hamburg people who came to this party session, Auster Bar Team Frank Blume & Torsten Wendt - support from Musik Rotthoff​, Joe Berger is playing Futhark Guitars, Jon Hammond the Sk1 Hammond manufactured by Suzuki Musical Instruments - Auster Bar Hamburg Eimsbüttel - Jon Hammond Organ Group - next segment filmed in Asbury Park, NJ, The Stone Pony — Monday November 16, 1987: Howard Stern on his morning show on WXRK K-Rock 92.3 FM repeatedly asking Steve Luongo “Who is this Joe Berger?” Jon Hammond: I was there in the station with my Sony D-7 recorder, Luongo kept dodging the question saying “Oh we can’t talk about him right now.” That only inflamed Howard’s curiosity even more. The truth of the story is that Joe Berger is the man who not only introduced John Entwistle to Rat Race Choir band which was already dysfunctional, he convinced John to come to Chicago Summer The NAMM Show in 1987 to play a set with them at the Vic Theatre with a little bit of help from myself Jon Hammond as documentarian for my cable TV program on MCTV – John Entwistle was already a long-time friend of Joe Berger and we filmed him doing an epic jam in Frankfurt Germany together with Zak Starkey on drums, Joe Berger guitar, John Entwistle bass and special guests Jack Bruce, Steve Stevens at the Soundcheck party in Dorian Gray nightclub inside the Frankfurt Airport on the night of February 2, 1987 musikmesse Party as seen on my TV show The Jon Hammond Show. Fast forward to November ’87, here we are at The Stone Pony Joe Berger is at the mixing console, I am filming (Jon Hammond) with a special Sony industrial camera GCS-1 like film, I went all over the world with my GCS-1 cameras documenting musical history for cable access broadcast, we are now in our 33rd year on MNN TV Channel 1 Manhattan Neighborhood Network and streaming worldwide. It’s time to set the record straight on who Joe Berger2 is and how he put John Entwistle together with this group which was already broken up and somehow between Joe Berger and John Entwistle they managed to keep them together enough to play a short tour, even though they were fighting like babies off the stage (also on camera but I prefer not to show it) Mark Hitt did a fantastic job on the guitar, Jack Hotop keyboards also outstanding, Steve Luongo played drums and was self-appointed tour manager which caused a lot of problems in my humble opinion – Dave Chmela vocalist and Luongo are not even on speaking terms, a lot of things went wrong but this documentary footage was early in the tour – the answer to Howard Stern’s question “Who is this Joe Berger” is right here folks! Rock ’n Roll history, Bill Curbishly attended the K-Rock Blood Drive gig that kicked it off at The Bottom Line, after reporting back to Pete Townshend about the gigs with John Entwistle and Rat Race Choir thanks to Joe Berger, Pete Townshend sent a telegram to John Entwistle​, John told me that Peter said for him to stop playing with the American blokes or there would never be a Who reunion. A few weeks later The Who John Entwistle, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry went in to rehearsals and a subsequent reunion tour after a period of being on non-speaking terms. So thanks to Joe Berger​ and in part myself after we brought the films to England and delivered them to John Entwistle at his London house from the Vic Theatre gig and Dorian Gray Nightclub Frankfurt, John felt confident enough to fly over to New York and make the tour, this footage is directly out of my camera folks, enjoy it and keep the Spirit of the late great John Entwistle who very sadly passed away on June 27, 2002 in Las Vegas NV at the Hard Rock Hotel, RIP John Entwistle – sincerely, Jon Hammond​ - Next segment: Mike Vax Takes it Up an Octave at JEN 2016 Louisville Louisville, Kentucky! http://kernelpanichammondcast.blogspot.de/2016/03/mourning-lutz-buchner.html Producer Jon Hammond Language English Facebook video https://www.facebook.com/hammondcast/videos/10153325212887102/?l=4901533270562609286 Preview of Jon Hammond Show broadcast for 03/19Jon Hammond Show preview broadcast - first segment: Lutz Büchner - first solo up: Lutz! https://archive.org/details/PocketFunkWithNDRHornsAusterJazz The new NDR recording truck used to record Lutz Büchner feature with LaJazzO M-V Landesjugendorchester and plakatt's - Jon Hammond http://www.ndr.de/orchester_chor/bigband/Jazz-ist-spielerischer-Umgang-mit-Musik,lutzbuechner105.html Jazz ist spielerischer Umgang mit Musik NDR Bigband Saxofonist Lutz Büchner im Interview Lutz Büchner, Saxofon und Klarinette, hat sich mit 16 Jahren das Jazz-Virus eingefangen. Sie scheinen zu den Musikern zu gehören, die sich sehr geradlinig auf Jazz fokussieren. Oder trügt dieser Eindruck? Lutz Büchner: Das tut er nicht! Ich habe mit 16 angefangen, mich für Jazz zu begeistern. Damals wurde ich von meinen Eltern auf ein Konzert mitgenommen, und dann hat sich das so nach und nach ergeben. Ich habe angefangen, mir viele Platten zu kaufen und weil ich aus Bremen komme, hatte ich das Glück, dort eine ältere Generation von Jazz-Musikern kennenzulernen: Ed Kröger und Uli Beckerhoff zum Beispiel. Die konnten mir natürlich tolle Plattentipps geben, so dass ich damals Miles Davis rauf und runter gehört habe und so immer weiter eingestiegen bin. Sie scheinen zu den Musikern zu gehören, die sich sehr geradlinig auf Jazz fokussieren. Oder trügt dieser Eindruck? Lutz Büchner: Das tut er nicht! Ich habe mit 16 angefangen, mich für Jazz zu begeistern. Damals wurde ich von meinen Eltern auf ein Konzert mitgenommen, und dann hat sich das so nach und nach ergeben. Ich habe angefangen, mir viele Platten zu kaufen und weil ich aus Bremen komme, hatte ich das Glück, dort eine ältere Generation von Jazz-Musikern kennenzulernen: Ed Kröger und Uli Beckerhoff zum Beispiel. Die konnten mir natürlich tolle Plattentipps geben, so dass ich damals Miles Davis rauf und runter gehört habe und so immer weiter eingestiegen bin. Biografisches in Kürze Jahrgang 1968, aufgewachsen in Bremen. Lutz Büchner lebt heute in Hamburg. Instrumente: Saxofone, Klarinetten, Flöten Er studierte bei Herb Geller und spielte in den Bands von Joe Gallardo und der dänischen Drummer-Legende Alex Riel. Er war beteiligt bei Projekten mit Detlev Beier, Ed Kröger, Wolfgang Schlüter, Lucas Lindholm, beim hr, der WDR Big Band und dem Metropol Orchestra Amsterdam. Mit seinem eigenen Quartett nahm er die viel beachtete CD "Ring" mit Danny Gottlieb am Schlagzeug auf. Seit 1994 ist Lutz Büchner festes Mitglied der NDR Bigband. Was faszinierte Sie so am Jazz? Büchner: Ich glaube, einfach die Tatsache, dass da improvisiert wird. Ich hatte davor klassischen Klarinettenunterricht und bin da immer wieder an meine Grenzen gestoßen. Beispielsweise wenn ich im Unterricht Etüden vorspielen musste und irgendwo auf der zweiten Seite eine damals für mich noch anspruchsvolle Stelle kam - da habe ich dann schon lange vor dieser Stelle darüber nachgedacht, dass sie gleich kommt und dadurch total unkonzentriert gespielt. Durch den Jazz habe ich einen viel spielerischeren Umgang mit der Musik gefunden. Dadurch, dass ich improvisiere und mir selbst aussuchen kann, was ich wann spiele, finde ich viel besser in einen musikalischen Fluss. Das ist bis heute mein vorrangiges Ziel: ganz im Moment zu spielen. Was schätzen Sie an der Arbeit in der NDR Bigband? Büchner: Grundsätzlich die Herausforderung! Dadurch habe ich sehr viel gelernt, auch durch das Spielen mit unterschiedlichen Musikern, wenn wir Gäste haben. Und dann passiert es auch hin und wieder, dass wir mit Arrangeuren zusammenarbeiten dürfen, die uns als Solisten sehr gut im Blick haben, und dann in meinem Fall nicht einfach eine Stimme für das Zweite Tenorsaxofon schreiben, sondern für Lutz Büchner. Wenn das passiert, dann sind das wirklich die tollsten Konzerte, weil dann die eigentliche Stärke dieser Bigband zum Tragen kommt: ihre Solisten, die alle außerordentlich gut sind, dabei aber aus völlig unterschiedlichen stilistischen Richtungen kommen. Das gibt der Band erst ihre eigene Farbe. Würden Sie also die Arrangeure dazu einladen, sich von der NDR Bigband inspirieren zu lassen? Büchner: Dazu ein Beispiel: Einer von meinen Lieblingsarrangeuren ist Michael Gibbs, der sehr von Gil Evans geprägt ist, einem der wichtigsten Arrangeure im modernen Bigband-Jazz. Und der wiederum - so hat mir Michael Gibbs einmal erzählt - ist manchmal zu den Aufnahme-Sessions seiner Projekte gekommen und hatte lediglich Skizzen der Stücke dabei, keine fertigen Partituren. Stattdessen hat er mit der Band ausprobiert, wer worüber am besten spielen kann. Dann hat er die Musiker zum Kaffee-Trinken geschickt und das Arrangement fertiggeschrieben. Er hat sich also davon beeinflussen lassen, welche Farben die Solisten beisteuern können. Von dieser Arbeitsweise profitieren am Ende alle: Arrangeur, Musiker und nicht zuletzt das Publikum. Wie viele Ihrer Kollegen haben Sie der NDR Bigband ja auch schon eigene Kompositionen vorgelegt. Wie fühlt es sich an, auf einmal selbst in der Rolle des Arrangeurs zu sein? Büchner: Das ist auf jeden Fall etwas Besonderes! Ich bin nicht der allerschnellste Schreiber und habe also wochenlang am Klavier und am Computer gesessen und versucht, mir vorzustellen, wie das klingt, wenn die Bigband das Stück spielt. Und wenn die Musiker dann das umsetzen, was man sich so lange überlegt hat, ist das ganz toll, weil es immer viel wärmer und lebendiger klingt, als man sich das vorher hätte träumen lassen. Das ist unheimlich spannend, und dieser Moment, wenn die Aufnahmen dann fertig sind und man sie auch noch selbst gut findet, der ist wirklich einzigartig. Das Interview führte Jessica Schlage. AUDIO I Lutz Büchner, Saxofonist der NDR Bigband © NDR / L. Towns Fotograf: L. Towns 00:48 min Multiinstrumentalist aus Überzeugung Jedes Instrument, das Lutz Büchner verwendet, erfordert ein ganz eigenes Spiel. Die ganz unterschiedlichen Klangfarben machen gerade die Improvisation für ihn so reizvoll. Audio (00:48 min) Saturday, March 12, 2016: Folks, I am really in shock from hearing news of the unexpected and very sad death of my good friend Lutz Büchner! I really didn’t want to say it on the internet after receiving the horrible news in communications with our mutual good friend and fellow musician / bandmate Heinz Lichius. This is so hard to get my head around and accept it but I know it’s true that Lutz suffered a fatal heart attack while on tour in Tokyo Japan with his beloved NDR-bigband with Peter Erskine on the band - I can see Lutz’ smile and hear his voice and music in my mind like it was yesterday - and we spoke and played together so many times. So now I see the news releases are already out on the news FEEDS from the NDR, Hamburger Abendblatt etc. and a few too-early mentions on the Facebook, so I know it’s time to write a few words for those of you who might not know of Lutz Büchner, as follows: As Joe Gallardo the great trombonist and long-time colleague of Lutz’ said in email to me last night: “As you well know, Lutz was first of all a great human being and secondly, he was a masterful player. Lutz was my brother. We will all miss him.” - The very first time I met Lutz was in 1995 on a rainy night in Hamburg Eimsbüttel at the Thursday night weekly jazz session in Jazzclub Birdland - I had heard him the week before and pushed my Hammond organ on the wheels through the rain to the club and got there real early, Hr. Reichert the owner opened up the club and I was telling Mr. Reichert I came the week before but didn’t get to play so “early bird gets the worm...and maybe I’ll get to play with Lutz Büchner!” - well we did it and by good luck my friend Joris Dudli the great drummer was there - it was magic from the first hit. That’s where it started, I was living in Hamburg to play music and write tunes - like so many musicians following in the footsteps of The Beatles, by invitation of my sponsor Knut Benzner journalist moderator on the NDR. From then on together with main man Heinz Lichius drums who I had met just before when Heinz came over to meet me one afternoon - Heinz had recommended to check out Lutz, one of the finest rising musicians on the Hamburg scene. We had a lot of great times together on the bandstand and off from that time on - we played in Hamburg and his hometown of Bremen - turned out to be that Lutz was a real life jazz angel who saved my life at least twice, one time involving bringing me to the hospital / krankenhaus and translating to me what they were about to do to me - we escaped out the side door and the doctor came to our gig that night! I met Lutz’ Mom and Dad beautiful people when they came to hear us play in Bremen at Studio club April 7, 1998 - and most recently our last gigs together with my favorite musicians Michael Leuschner, (Heinz Lichius of course) “Fiete” Ernst-Friedrich Fiete Felsch NDR horn section brothers along with Joe Berger guitar, probably best gig of my life - Lutz was so happy to have found his love with his wife Bettina and he was always crazy about his son Asmus and his step daughters by Bettina, the happiest I have ever seen him, he glowed in the dark he had that much joy! -- Back in 2005 I had an idea, I said to my long-time girlfriend Jennifer: Lutz is one of the greatest saxophonists I ever heard, I want to feature him on a CD release, he could be making a great record every day! I couldn’t believe that he didn’t have any feature albums out at that point - so I discussed it with Knut Benzner and we all co-produced a recording session for this purpose in the famous Studio 1 at NDR, the NDR SESSIONS Projekt was born, with the addition of “Joe G” / Joe Gallardo on trombone and Heinz Lichius and myself, Rudolf Grosser at the controls big SSL console, we started playing in the morning and I played through the magic bass amp belonging to Lucas Lindholm - the boys took one long coffee break and other than that we recorded tunes all day long - I am so grateful that I’ll always have this recording date together with Lutz, of course later on Lutz came out with more records - but this one for me is my special keepsake that went down with the blessings of NDR with the help of Knut Benzner and Axel Dürr. So many stories I can tell you, but most importantly everybody loved Lutz, I know there are a lot of tears flowing now around Hamburg and Bremen, my heart goes out to Lutz’ Family, Friends and Musicians music brothers and sisters! The 2nd to the last time we played together, I hadn’t seen Lutz for a while and he told me about a real miracle of survival when he was driving on the autobahn with Bettina and the kinder all his happy Family in the car, I think there was ice on the road - a car slammed in to the back of his car demolishing the car, but Lutz’ horns were in the trunk - they all got crushed but it saved his Family! They were all shaken up but OK - the lucky star was shining over them, and even though Lutz is not with us physically anymore, his lucky star will always be shining - he was competely dedicated to the NDR-bigband family of musicians and his own Family - always a huge inspiration to me as a person and master musician, rest in peace my very special good friend Lutz Büchner - my deepest and most sincere condolences go out to Lutz’ Mom and Dad and Bettina and his son Asmus and step children by Bettina - all the folks who know and love Lutz, sincerely, Jon Hammond

L to R Michael Leuschner, Heinz Lichius, Lutz Büchner, Jon Hammond, 'Fiete' Ernst-Friedrich Fiete Felsch

L to R Joe Gallardo, Heinz Lichius, Jon Hammond, Lutz Büchner, 'Rudy' Rudolf Grosser - NDR SESSIONS Projekt

Regina Niteclub L to R (Barry Finnerty's guitar neck), Lutz Büchner tenor, Jon Hammond organ on Grosse Freiheit

Newessbar Hamburg Altona L to R Lutz Büchner, Heinz Lichius, Joe Berger, Jon Hammond, Olaf Gödecke

Foto by Gunther Zint in INDRA - L to R Joe Berger, Heinz Lichius, Lutz Büchner, Jon Hammond

Special thanks to Nicolai Ditsch for shooting this film with Lutz!: Youtubes of every song we played in Auster Bar Hamburg going backwards Jon Hammond Band http://youtu.be/BqtFWKBeC0c “Cooking at The Auster Bar”http://youtu.be/9P8yZiXgWfI “Tribute to Cannonball - Mercy Mercy Mercy”http://youtu.be/MdQi8mAslzE “Tribute to Bobby Timmons - Moanin’ / Blues”http://youtu.be/jtAaQLH_BYk “Late Rent - Them Song” http://youtu.be/orpLWd66-Hw “No X-Cess Baggage Blues” http://youtu.be/LFhxrDs6PbQ “Lydia’s Tune - Bossa Nova”http://youtu.be/MxpIJesOJXQ “Pocket Funk” http://youtu.be/q4_lNnwzxrU “Auster Blues and Jazz *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Cooking at The Auster Bar Jon Hammond Band With NDR Horns - Jon’s archive archive, Cable TV program, Public Access, MNN TV, Jon Hammond, 03/19, Preview, #Jazz #Rock #HammondOrgan #CNNiReport

Manhattan Cable TV MCTV Jon Hammond Show Late Fri night Just Before Robin Byrd same time 33rd year Channel C Channel D Channel J

*WATCH CABLE TV PROGRAM HERE: Jon Hammond Show Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondMNNTVTheJonHammondShow Manhattan Cable TV MCTV Jon Hammond Show Late Fri night Just Before Robin Byrd same time 33rd year Channel C Channel D Channel J "Taking over control of your TV sets (and now computers) for this little 28 minute pack here." The Jon Hammond Show one of the original late night Manhattan Cable TV Shows on for years, now kicking off 33rd year on same time slot at 1:30 AM which is the original time slot Jon Hammond began on then Channel C leading in to Robin Byrd's show which came on at 2AM - the only other surviving MCTV Cable Access Producer pioneer Harold Hudson Channer appears on this segment - Harold is perhaps the only public access TV host who has been on longer than Jon Hammond continuously. MCTV has since morphed in to MNN TV / Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Jon Hammond Show continues broadcasting every late Friday night / early Saturday morning at 1:30 AM on Channel 1 MNN TV - the show has traveled all over the world, known for the Video by LORI video art synchronized with original music, funky jazz blues and rock - the talking foot footage originally was the only way you could see television host and organist Jon Hammond. Later on Jon was picked by SONY Broadcast to take an original prototype Sony Betacam in to field testing, early camcorder footage when still only available on the grey market - Jon Hammond Show also showed 80 times daily on the very first large outdoor TV Screen in Times Square, the Mitsubishi Diamond Vision screen daily for 2 years including the psychedelic countdown to new years seen all over the world with Video by LORI Art 1984 - 1985 - the weekly broadcasts on Channel C, Channel D MCTV Public Access and paid access Channel J began on February 2nd 1984 - Theme song for Jon's show is known all over the world "Late Rent" - now the show streams worldwide in addition to broadcasting on all 3 cable networks in Manhattan and the Bronx. Stay tuned, kicking off year 33 folks! Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Topics MNNTV, MCTV, Jon Hammond Show, HammondCast, KYOU Radio, B3 organ, XB-2, XK-3c, Jazz, Funk, Soul, Blues, Local 802 Musicians Union MNNTV The Jon Hammond Show as seen on Jon Hammond's long running cable access TV show now on MNNTV Manhattan Neighborhood Network in New York City 27th year. This episode is a classic with Jon Hammond and band in Moscow Russia playing jazz ballad Easy Living with Igor Butman sax and Eduard Zizak drums, Jon Hammond at the organ. Tim Cain "Shadow Walk" with visuals by Eduardo Gutekunst. Jon Hammond with his studio band of Steve Ferrone, Todd Anderson, Barry Finnerty "Lydia's Tune" by Jon Hammond at the B3 organ. Jon Hammond in Frankfurt Germany with Tony Lakatos tenor sax, Giovanni Guilino drum, Joe Berger guitar "Melody Without Name" Jon Hammond' theme song is entitled LATE RENT with Video By LORI © JOn Hammond Intl. http://www.HammondCast.com MNNTV, MCTV, Jon Hammond Show, HammondCast, KYOU Radio, B3 organ, XB-2, XK-3c, Jazz, Funk, Soul, Blues, Local 802 Musicians Union #CNNiReport Uploaded by laterent Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/6842260109 Jon Hammond Show on Manhattan Neighborhood Network Ch. 1 late Friday nights / early Sat. 1:30 AM Eastern Standard time 28 minutes - with Val Hal Jazz Pub historic audio recording when I played on Count Basie's original model A Hammond organ when subbing for Don Patterson - also Jones for Johnson classic Jon Hammond Show recording - Late Rent theme song outro http://www.HammondCast.com Jon Hammond Dance Party! — at AFM - American Federation of Musicians. Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics Cable Access TV, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, model A, #HammondOrgan #CNNiReport The Water Boys! L to R Jon Hammond, Alex Budman, Michael Falkenstein, Brian Auger, Karma Auger, Donny Baldwin - The NAMM Show Jon Hammond Band with Donny Baldwin on the band just after we played a NAMM Showcase Jon Hammond Funk Unit Location: NAMM Sheraton Acoustic Stage Event Date: Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 9:00pm to 9:40pm Add to Calendar https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2016/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit-0 Artist Info Jon Hammond Organ / Organist Leader Joe Berger guitar / guitarist Performance Info Jon Hammond's Breakfast of Champions! Organ Meets Bigband - in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Rostock NAMM Breakfast of Champions with Betty Heywood NAMM Director of International Affairs & Jon Hammond bright and early Day 1 Oslo Norway -- flanked by Jan Grindheim and Kevin Gallagher in front of Oslo City Hall - LINK: http://youtu.be/3SEJhqXVqiU 06 A special visit with Lord Mayor of Oslo Per Ditlev-Simonsen in Oslo Norway on Jon Hammond's HammondCast Show Bill Graham Presents' Peter Barsotti Here in Free Poetry Jam With Organist Jon Hammond Groveland CA Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/PeterBarsottiAndJonHammondFreeFormPoetryOrganJam Youtube https://youtu.be/wig6wIaQivI CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1258767 Vimeo https://vimeo.com/134074851 by Jon Hammond Published July 20, 2015 Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics Peter Barsotti, Bill Graham Presents, Grateful Dead, #DeadHeads Poetry Jam, Groveland CA, The Iron Door Saloon, Golf Tournament, Eddie Money, Bettike Barsotti, #HammondOrgan Jon Hammond Groveland California -- Peter Barsotti and Jon Hammond Free Form Poetry Organ Jam - October 28, 2003 - dedicated to Bettike Barsotti and The Barsotti Family, The Iron Door Saloon Team, BGP Bill Graham Presents & Grateful Dead extended Family and some of the worst golf players I ever saw Eddie Money and the boys, but raised money for Tioga High School folks - in memory of Peter & Bettike Barsotti, Honorable Judge Mario and Mrs. Barsotti - sincerely, Jon Hammond - Keep the Spirit! http://www.HammondCast.com - keywords: Peter Barsotti, Bettike Barsotti, The Iron Door Saloon, Grateful Dead, Bill Graham Presents, Lazarus, #HammondOrgan #Poetry Eddie Money, Tioga High School, Golf Tournament Producer Jon Hammond Bullet Point: Programm 2015 “Organ meets Bigband” feat. Jon Hammond (organ) das LaJazzO MV Aktuelle Termine http://www.landesmusikrat-mv.de/projekte/ensembles/ljjo/termine.php Sommerarbeitsphase 26.07. – 02.08.2015 Klanghaus Projektleitung: Christine Unger & Franziska Maczkowicz Mentoren künstlerische Leitung: Michael Leuschner, Hamburg - foto Tini Unger Saxophonsection: Edgar Herzog, Hamburg - foto Hendryk Wörlitz Posaunensection: Andreas Barkhoff, Hannover Rhythmussection: Lorenz Bösche, Hamburg Trompetensection: Bob Lanese, Hamburg "Wir danken der Firma 4 Heads aus Berlin für die finanzielle Unterstützung der Probenphase." 3.07.2015 Eldenaer Jazz Evenings „Von Coleman Hawkins bis Michael Brecker“ feat. Lutz Büchner, sax 30.07.2015 Zeughaus Wismar „Organ meets Bigband“ feat. Jon Hammond 31.07.2015 Burg Penzlin im Rahmen der Festspiele M-V „Organ meets Bigband“ feat. Jon Hammond 01.08.2015 Inselfest Poel „Organ meets Bigband“ feat. Jon Hammond 01.08.2015 Rostock Klostergarten „Organ meets Bigband“ feat. Jon Hammond Programm 2015 “Organ meets Bigband” feat. Jon Hammond (organ) Nachdem sich in den vergangenen Jahren das LaJazzO MV mit den in der Big Band vorkommenden Instrumenten musikalisch auseinandersetzte, wird in 2015 die Jazzorgel musikalisch thematisiert werden. Unter dem Titel "Organ meets Big Band" wird dieses sehr traditionsreiche Instrument der Jazzgeschichte in den Mittelpunkt der Konzertreihe im folgenden Jahr gestellt. Als Jazzinstrument wurde es von Fats Waller in den 30er Jahren eingeführt und hatte seine Hochzeit in den 50er Jahren durch seine Vertreter wie Jimmy Smith. Der international renommierte New Yorker Jazzorganist Jon Hammond wird zusammen mit dem LaJazzO MV unter der Leitung von Michael Leuschner den besonderen Charme dieses Instrumentes wieder zum Leben erwecken. Jon Hammond studierte in den siebzieger Jahren am Berklee College of Music und am City College San Francisco. Konzertreisen führten ihn quer durch die Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada. In seiner eigenen 'Jon Hammond Show' spielte er mit Musikern wie Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Butterfield, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Sledge und vielen anderen. Auch in Europa fand und findet seine Musik unverändert viele Anhänger. Die Medien berichten wiederholt von einem unverwechselbaren und prägenden Sound. Jon Hammond hat u.a. auf der 20. Frankfurter Musikmesse mitgewirkt und tritt vornehmlich in Hamburg auf. "The Jon Hammond Show" is a funky, swinging Jazz instrumental revue, featuring notable international soloists and reflecting the influences of Miles Davis, The Crusaders and Jimmy Smith. Im Programm (aus dem Archiv der NDR Bigband) The Sermon by Jimmy Smith, arr. Steve Grey Back at the Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith, arr. Steve Grey Things ain’t what they used to be by Mercer Ellington, arr. Steve Grey Walk on the Wild Side by Elmar Bernstein, arr. Steve Grey Satin Doll by Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn, arr. Steve Grey Bandrepertoire (Auszug) All the Things you are by Jerome Kern, arr. Stan Kenton Always and Forever by Pat Metheny, arr. Bob Curnow Boulder Buff by F. Normann / Eugene Novello Breakthrough by John Fedchock Critic’s Choice by Oliver Nelson Here comes Julian by Heiner Wiberny, arr. Peter Herbolzheimer Incredible Journey by Bob Mintzer Stella by Starlight by Ned Washington/Victor Young, arr. Bill Holman Tow away zone by Thad Jones, arr. Mike Carubia You go to my head by Gillespie/Coots, arr. Bill Holman Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/OrganMeetsBigbandFeat.JonHammondInAlteBurgPenzlin Youtube https://youtu.be/4n1WEq-l-Cs by Jon Hammond Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics LaJazzO MV, #HammondOrgan #Bigband Jon Hammond #NDR NDR Jazz, Hamburg, Rostock, B3 organ, Sk1, Steve Gray, Arrangements Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/HEADPHONEPodcastMeetinghouseJazzOrchestraSession Bullet Point Recap 2015 kicking off 2016 - Jon Hammond #BulletPoint Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics Head Phone, Sennheiser, Superlux, Meetinghouse Jazz Orchestra, Todd Anderson, Bob Rosen, Jon Hammond, Horn Section, Funky Jazz, Friends Seminary, #HammondOrgan #HeadPhones Photo courtesy of Elmar Lemes ©Elmar Lemes #ElmarLemes "Head Phone" was written by organist Jon Hammond​ and Arranged by Todd Anderson​ - Podcast of Session with Meetinghouse Jazz Orchestra from the inner sanctum of Friends Seminary​, 230 year old school K-12 on Manhattan's East Side - Bob Rosen​ presiding over the Music Department. On guitar David Acker​, drums Mike Campenni, Greg Ruvolo​ trumpet, Jim Piela saxophone, Pat Hall, Art Baron​, Alfredo Marques​ trombones, Charles Lee alto, more names coming! ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP http://www.HammondCast.com - Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM​ - AFM Local 6​ - TV Producers of Manhattan Neighborhood Network [MNN]​ Manhattan Neighborhood Network​ Producer Jon Hammond Language English Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/AlJazzbeauxCollinsMovieWithJonHammondKCSMJazz91Ver2.0 Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics: Al Jazzbeaux Collins, Documentary, Jon Hammond, Movie, Jazz 91, Mississippi Mud, Jazzbo Collins, WNEW 1130 AM, Jazz Radio, #HammondOrgan Priceless documentary film of Al Jazzbeaux Collins aka Al Jazzbo Collins, by Jon Hammond - enjoy folks! - JH: The late great radio and TV broadcaster personality Al Jazzbeaux Collins in the studios of KCSM Jazz 91 with organist Jon Hammond - aka Al Jazzbo Collins, one of the greatest and most definitely coolest broadcasters who ever lived. *Note: I dearly miss Jazzbeaux, he was a huge inspiration to me personally. He broke out my music on the air back in New York on WNEW 1130AM huge powerful door he opened for me, we had a lot of fun together on both coasts - he introduced me to folks like Lionel Hampton, David Panama Francis, Lew Anderson band leader and Clarabell the Clown from It's Howdy Doody Time! TV Show, Joe Bushkin pianist, and his Family the Collins Family - he knew every door man garbage man and taxi drivers on the street - rest in peace Albert! sincerely, Jon Hammond *including a clip from Live performance in Horizons Sausalito with funky James Preston drums on Jon Hammond Band https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_%22Jazzbo%22_Collins Albert Richard "Jazzbo" Collins (born January 4, 1919, Rochester, New York[1] — d. September 30, 1997, Marin County, California) was an American disc jockey, radio personality and recording artist who was briefly the host of NBC television's Tonight show in 1957. Jon Hammond, Archive, Jazz, Blues, Soft News, #B3 #HammondOrgan #MCTV #NAMMShow #musikmesse