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Livin' Is Easy When You Are The Jon Hammond Band On 6th Street In San Francisco
Jon's archive
https://archive.org/details/LivinIsEasyWhenYouAreTheJonHammondBandOn6thStreetInSanFrancisco
Youtube
http://youtu.be/VQBVAbRAoGY
Jon Hammond Band Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=948114665217331
Real nice playing on the jazz ballad by tenor saxophonist Larry Schneider, Bob Brumbeloe on guitar, Ron Smith drums and Jon Hammond keyboards & bass -
Livin' is Easy when you are The Jon Hammond Band on 6th Street in San Francisco
http://www.HammondCast.com/ - Jon Hammond Organ Group — with Jon Hammond, Larry Schneider and Bob Brumbeloe at 6th Street.
CNN iReport
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1194600
Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/113670829
Dailymotion
http://www.dailymotion.com/laterent
Jon's archive
https://archive.org/details/ImprovedAudioUndergroundFrankfurtJonHammondBandIntimBarLissania1
Jon Hammond Band circa 1992 Underground Frankfurt Scene Night Shows in Europa Intim Bar and Lissania in Frankfurt's Red Light District during musikmesse.
Original Funk tunes "Pocket Funk" and "Nu Funk" aka "Hip Hop Chitlins" Note: sadly funky drummer James Preston has passed, long-time drummer in various formations of Jon Hammond Band, Sons of Champlin, Cold Blood with Lydia Pense, RIP Jimmy - Al Allen Wittig tenor saxophone, Barry Finnerty guitar, Jon Hammond organ, funky James Preston drums - special thanks to Joe Berger Hans Romanov Europa INTIM Bar ElbeStrasse 34, 60329 Frankfurt and Stefan Hantel aka Shantel Lissania on the Kaiserstrasse
Youtube
http://youtu.be/3wjgB0moazk
- as seen on cable access show The Jon Hammond Show now in 31st year - all music ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP
http://www.HammondCast.com/ — with James Preston and Jon Hammond at KiezPraline
CNN iReport
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1188407
Dailymotion
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2a7z74_underground-frankfurt-jon-hammond-band-intim-bar-lissania_music
Jon Hammond Band Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=936450226383775
Jon's archive
https://archive.org/details/JonHammondAndFriendsJazzSpotSwing
Youtube
http://youtu.be/x6a8MHYESqc
Jon Hammond and Friends drop in to Taipei night spot JAZZ SPOT SWING organ lounge,
Jon at Mr. Nobuki Kuwahara's Hammond Sk2 organ with house musicians - Kenichi Toyoda piano
- special thanks to Nico, Shannon, Letitia - Superlux Taiwan,
P. Mauriat Europe Pmauriat Albest Team!
http://www.HammondCast.com/ - Jazz Spot Swing
Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/110027287
CNN iReport
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1182889
Jon Hammond Band Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=924772564218208
James Oscar Smith aka Jimmy Smith photos by Jon Hammond
Taken in Long Beach, California
Long Beach CA -- James Oscar Smith aka Jimmy Smith photos by Jon Hammond one month before he passed away, just after receiving the prestigious NEA Jazz Master Award.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Smith_(musician)
James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith (December 8, 1925[1] or 1928[2] – February 8, 2005)[1][2] was an American jazz musician who achieved the rare distinction of releasing a series of instrumental jazz albums that often charted on Billboard. Smith helped popularize the Hammond B-3 electric organ, creating an indelible link between sixties soul and jazz improvisation.
In 2005, Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that the United States bestows upon jazz musicians.
Also known as The Incredible Jimmy Smith
Born December 8, 1925
Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States
Died February 8, 2005 (aged 79)
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Genres Hard bop
Mainstream jazz
Jazz-funk
Jazz fusion
Occupation(s) Musician
Instruments Hammond B-3 electric organ
Smith's birth year is of some confusion, with various sources citing either 1925 or 1928. Born James Oscar Smith in Norristown, Pennsylvania, at the age of six he joined his father doing a song-and-dance routine in clubs. He began teaching himself to play the piano. When he was nine, Smith won a Philadelphia radio talent contest as a boogie-woogie pianist.[5] After a stint in the navy, he began furthering his musical education in 1948, with a year at Royal Hamilton College of Music, then the Leo Ornstein School of Music in Philadelphia in 1949. He began exploring the Hammond organ in 1951. From 1951 to 1954 he played piano, then organ in Philly R&B bands like Don Gardner and the Sonotones. He switched to organ permanently in 1954 after hearing Wild Bill Davis.
He purchased his first Hammond organ, rented a warehouse to practice in and emerged after little more than a year. Upon hearing him playing in a Philadelphia club, Blue Note's Alfred Lion immediately signed him to the label and his second album, The Champ, quickly established Smith as a new star on the jazz scene. He was a prolific recording artist and, as a leader, dubbed The Incredible Jimmy Smith, he recorded around forty sessions for Blue Note in just eight years beginning in 1956. Albums from this period include The Sermon!, House Party, Home Cookin', Midnight Special, Back at the Chicken Shack and Prayer Meetin'.
Smith signed to the Verve label in 1962. His first album, Bashin', sold well and for the first time set Smith with a big band, led by Oliver Nelson. Further big band collaborations followed, most successfully with Lalo Schifrin for The Cat and guitarist Wes Montgomery, with whom he recorded two albums: The Dynamic Duo and Further Adventures Of Jimmy and Wes. Other notable albums from this period include Blue Bash and Organ Grinder Swing with Kenny Burrell, The Boss with George Benson, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Got My Mojo Working, and Root Down.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Smith recorded with some of the great jazz musicians of the day such as Kenny Burrell, George Benson, Grant Green, Stanley Turrentine, Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson, Tina Brooks, Jackie McLean, Grady Tate and Donald Bailey.
The Jimmy Smith Trio performed "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" and "The Sermon" in the 1964 film Get Yourself a College Girl.
In the 1970s, Smith opened his own supper club in Los Angeles, California, and played there regularly with guitarist Paul C Saenz, Kenny Dixon on drums, Herman Riley and John F. Phillips on saxophone; also included in the band was harmonica/flute player Stanley Behrens. The 1972 album Root Down, considered a seminal influence on later generations of funk and hip-hop musicians, was recorded live at the club, albeit with a different group of backing musicians...
Jon's archive
https://archive.org/details/LateRentJonHammondThemeSong2014
Jon Hammond theme song Late Rent on the occasion of 28th annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in the world famous jazzkeller Frankfurt and Jon's birthday
with Peter Klohmann tenor saxophone, Giovanni Totò Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar and Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond organ - Late Rent is the theme song for Jon's long-running cable TV show in New York City The Jon Hammond Show and HammondCast radio program
http://www.HammondCast.com - special thanks to Frank Poehl for operating the camera -
Jon Hammond Band
Jon's archive
https://archive.org/details/LateRentJonHammondThemeSong2014
Good time in The Garden Court At The Palace Hotel today, thank you long-time server Maggie and F&B Team!
Jon Hammond
http://hammondcast.wordpress.com/
Palace Hotel 2 New Montgomery Street · San Francisco, CA
See’s Candies Stage Shoreline Amphitheatre Jon Hammond & The Late Rent Session Men
November 11, 2014
*WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: See’s Candies Stage Shoreline Amphitheatre Jon Hammond & The Late Rent Session Men
Jon’s archive
https://archive.org/details/SeesCandiesStageShorelineAmphitheatreJonHammondTheLateRentSessionMen
Jon Hammond and The Late Rent Session Men concert on See’s Candies Stage Shoreline Amphitheatre At Mountain View Amphitheater show for Bill Graham Presents
Jon Hammond Band Funk Unit coming up at Winter NAMM Show folks
http://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2015/concerts-performances/jon-hammond-funk-unit — at The Garden Court At The Palace Hote
Jon Hammond theme song Late Rent on the occasion of 28th annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in the world famous jazzkeller Frankfurt and Jon's birthday
with Peter Klohmann tenor saxophone, Giovanni Totò Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar and Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond organ - Late Rent is the theme song for Jon's long-running cable TV show in New York City The Jon Hammond Show and HammondCast radio program
http://www.HammondCast.com - special thanks to Frank Poehl for operating the camera - Jon Hammond Band
Youtube
http://youtu.be/5shPL3IOYlU
NuMuBu
http://www.numubu.com/153010-videos.html?VIDEO_ID=23971
CNN iReport
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1117717
Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/91332204
Dailymotion
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1mn3pb_late-rent-jon-hammond-theme-song-2014_music
6th Street, Tenderloin District, San Francisco, Livin' Easy, Jon Hammond, Organ group, Jazz, Blues, Local 6, Musicians Union,
MNN TV, Channel 1
The old site of Malcolm Williams' Long Branch Saloon Berkeley - no more music here nowadays, but the coffee's good and the WiFi is strong! - Jon Hammond
My 1959 Hammond B3 fired up, been with me a long time!And my same ol' 5" Sony Trinitron color TV with government digital converter box - it's big enough for me - Jon Hammond
