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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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Any old Flying Circus / Clover freaks Marin County CA going to the 4 Amigos Texas Guitar Show next week Jan. 14/15th at Marin Civic Center? We are going to have an original piece of gear from Flying Circus that belonged previously to the McFee Brothers back in the 60's completely original formerly maintained by Randall Smith at Prune Music before he went on to found Boogie Amps, this 1965 Fender Twin Reverb has the original factory JBL speakershttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jon_Hammond%27s_1965_Fender_Twin_Reverb_Amp_with_Factory_JBL_Speakers.jpg hope to see you there - Jon Hammond
when I returned from living in Europe, that was a really fun gig. Sorry to hear of the cancelation, Jon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inzkjTzdecs Party Barge : 2 SONS of CHAMPLIN + JON HAMMOND - Fun in the Sun and Water on the Lake with Jon Hammond at the XB-2 organ, James Preston drums and Terry Haggerty guitar of band SONS of CHAMPLIN (Marin County CA) playing Jon's tune "Turkey Dog Saute" powered by a generator cruising on a nice day,
Organist and accordionist Jon Hammond of New York City embarked on his annual tour of Germany in March and streamed several of his gigs on his Live Streaming HammondCast channel. The tour marked Hammond's 23rd appearance at Musikmesse in Frankfort. Visit www.livestream.com/hammondcast.
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..."try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1742/1460/1600/jonhammond3.0.jpg">*LISTEN TO HammondCast 43 HERE: HammondCast 43 "Jon Hammond's Afternoon Slide" on KYOU Radio and KYCY 1550 AM broadcasting from Emeryville CA by Pixar Studios. Music from a 1999 concert in Kuumbwa Jazz Center to a full house in trio with James Preston of the Sons of Champlin on drums and Barry Finnerty on guitar, Jon at the B3 organ. This music from Kuumbwa Jazz Center was broadcast on Pete Fallico's show on KUSP Santa Cruz CA. "Doodlin' Lounge" - JON HAMMOND Trio playing "James and Wess" and "Have YOU Met Miss Jones". From Jon's NDR SESSIONS Projekt "I Remember YOU" with Joe Gallardo trombone, Lutz Büchner saxophone, Heinz Lichius drums, Jon Hammond
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