JON HAMMOND
*Jon is currently Host of daily CBS radio program HammondCast on KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM, 7 days a week at 4AM PST.
*Performing solo in Hospitals, Nursing Homes regularly. Bandleader for annual overseas dates for over 20 years.
*Musician: Jon Hammond is one of the premier B3 PLAYERS in the world. Played venues as diverse as Boston's "Combat Zone" in the striptease clubs during the '70's and the exclusive Wychmere Harbor Club in Cape Cod, where he was house organist with Lou Colombo.
*Danny lived and played in the Ritz for 10 years, quite the scene - jazz, cigars, sidecar motorcycles - international heavies gathered there - this night SF Mayor Willie Brown in the house - JH
Portman Ritz-Carlton, Shanghai, Danny Woody, Danny California, Jazz Bar, Jazz Combo, Jon Hammond, Hammond organ, Willie Brown, Shanghai Centre, Language English
Hammond Report March 2 2021 From Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's music story about playing a jazz ballad in
in the jazz bar on mezzanine level. I went to Shanghai 4 times for the first 4 years of the Music China trade fair organized by my friend Wilhelm-Peter Charly Hosenseidel (sadly deceased) Danny did that gig for 10 years and also his famous custom Chinese military sidecar motorcycles, which were sold in the hotel's gift shop!
I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report folks,
Hammond Report, 2 March 2021, Musician, Stories, Shanghai, Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Ballad, Jazz Music, Ballad, Sidecar Motorcycles, Danny Woody, Jon Hammond, bye bye now
, I met the musicians from the official China Marching Band and amazingly some of their band instruments came from Indiana, the long way! That evening I played a jazz set with my friend Danny Woody and his combo in the
and surprisingly I ran in to my friend Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco who I had just seen a few days earlier in San Francisco CA! Small world in music folks, stay safe out there - keep masking up and I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report,
Hammond Report, 25 September 2020, Music and Stories, Shanghai China, Mayor Willie Brown, Danny Woody, Band Instruments, Hammond Organist, Jazz Set, bye bye now
Bob Cunningham, Bass, Bernard Purdie, Jon Hammond, Local 802, Musicians Union, NDR Jazz, Late Rent, Mikell's, Jazz Foundation of America, Elmar Lemes, ASCAP Network, B3 organ, XK-3c, Blues, Funky, Rhonda Hamilton, WBGO
Jon Hammond and Friends in Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel Jazz Bar Shanghai China Music China, Claus Rueckbeil, Danny Woody, Easy Living, HammondCast, Jazz Bar, Jon Hammond, KYOU KYCY Radio, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Shanghai China, XK-3c, XB-2, XK-1, Suzuki, FSB Funk Soul Blues NDR Jazz
Jon Hammond Intro:
Instruments: Organ, Accordion, Piano, Guitar
Attended: Berklee College of Music 1974, City College San Francisco
Languages: English, German
Jon is closely identified with the two main products of his career, the Excelsior Accordion and the Hammond Organ.
The Days of Portman and Roses Ritz-Carlton Shanghai Centre Jazz Bar - Danny Woody's longtime jazz gig residency 10 yearsHotel Portman Ritz-Carlton Shanghai - Alex Layne acoustic bass, Jon Hammond Hammond XB-2 organ, 'Danny California' aka Danny Woody leader drums, Dwight Dickerson piano
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