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JON HAMMOND Instruments: Organ, Accordion, Piano, Guitar Attended: Berklee College of Music 1974, City College San Francisco Languages: English, German Musician: Jon Hammond is one of the premier B3 PLAYERS in the world. Jon has played professionally since age 12. Beginning as a solo accordionist, he later played 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. Moving East he attended Berklee College of Music and 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 and developed a lasting friendship with House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He also toured the Northeast and Canada with the successful show revue "Easy Living", and continued his appearances at nightclubs in Boston and New York. Subsequently Hammond lived and traveled in Europe, where he has an enthusiastic following. TV/Video Producer: In 1981 Jon formed BackBeat Productions. Assisted by Lori Friedman (Video by LORI), the innovative TV show "The Jon Hammond Show" became a Manhattan Cable TV favorite. Jon's "Live on the street" video style included news events, as well as live music/video clips of Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Butterfield, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Sledge and many others. The weekly show is now in it's 25th 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 from http://www.mnn.org and on channels 56 and 108 in Manhattan. Media Personality: Host and narrator of his TV show, as well as co-host of numerous radio broadcasts, Jon has defined a musical and personal style that is unmistakeable. As Musical Director, Producer and Host of The Jon Hammond Show, Mr. Hammond formed a unique multi-media music group. This spring they will return to Europe to perform for 19th consecutive year at Frankfurt Musikmesse and will be hosting shows there and in Hamburg Germany. Description: "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. The show has universal appeal
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View from Harold Channer 's deck of Empire State Bldg. lit for Christmas Holidays at Harold's famous annual Christmas Party, many guests and fellow public access TV producers in attendance. Harold's show "Conversations" has been on the longest,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNpxGW8PPQg Conversations Part 2 Harold Channer and Jon Hammond MNN TV Harold Channer and Jon Hammond "The Global Village"...music as the Universal Language, music without words is the best way to effect global change, Jon's theory in action with a clip from Moscow Russia concert together with Russian tenor sax star Igor Butman, drummer Eduard Zizak and Jon at the organ doing the classic Jazz Ballad "My One And Only Love" from the John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman 'Ballads' album. And wrap up conversation with Broadcaster, Philosopher Producer and World Traveler Harold Hudson Channer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5kXLgd69k Excerpt from 'Conversations Show', Harold Channer with guest TV/Radio Host & Producer Jon Hammond on MNN TV in New York City. Hear Harold and Jon discuss Public Access Television and play a clip from Jon's very first broadcast on MCTV Channel C 'The Jon Hammond Show' with original music and graphics from BackBeat Productions that aired for first time Feb. 2, 1984.
My first residence in Paris France - L'hotel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Hotel L'Hôtel is a 4-star luxury hotel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. When previously known as the Hôtel d'Alsace, Oscar Wilde spent his last days there in room 16, famously remarking "I am dying beyond my means". Other former residents include Marlon Brando, actress and singer Mistinguett, and writer Jorge Luis Borges, who said it seemed to have been "sculpted by a cabinet maker".[1] The hosting of Borges in this hotel was not by chance: when he was nine, he translated Wilde's "The Happy Prince" into Spanish and since then he had become a big fan of his work; Borges wanted to die where the writer of his childhood had also died. L'hotel rules! Jon Hammondhttp://www.l-hotel.com/
Mr. Berger Joe Berger is about to make the Rhodes Piano people across the aisle turn their stuff up quite loud when he cranks the Hammond guitar Leslie G37 in a duo performance we did at the last Winter NAMM...get ready because we are going to do it again folks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-wZJpToWbE Single-Channel Input Features low and high gain input jacks Two-Speed Horn & Bass Rotor Slow/fast speeds can be individually adjusted. Horn and bass rotor will automatically stop in the forward position when the stop mode is selected .This maximizes the sound towards the audience Winter NAMM Show Hammond Suzuki USA Stand Jon Hammond at Pro XK System organ with guitarist Joe Berger through G37 Leslie Speaker playing Jon's White Onions from album Late Rent. Hammond and Berger aka Ham-Berger.
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