Jon Hammond at the Organ and Microphone
What's Happening Cousin Albert?! 
Supermarket Tabloids du jour by Jon Hammond 
Supermarket Tabloids du jour by Jon Hammond Accordion Radio http://www.accordionradio.com/blog.html/jon_hammond_show_06_10/ with Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, P!nk, Taylor Swift, Katy
Perry, Megyn Kelly, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Ariana Grande, Steve Harvey, and Jon Hammond Funk Unit! + Life Magazine #WATCHMOVIE HERE: Jon Hammond Show 06 10 Jon's archive
https://archive.org/details/JonHammondShow0610 Jon Hammond Show public access TV show broadcast channel 1 on Manhattan Neighborhood
Network -MNN Air Time: 01:30 AM EST on 06/10 First segment "Lydia's Tune" from 1st Jon Hammond album (Late Rent) written in Paris 1981 after flying aboard the Concorde jet - JFK to CDG in 3 hrs. 26
minutes supersonic - performed here at Jon Hammond's 19th annual musikmesse Session in Jazzkeller Hofheim with the tenor saxophonist Peter Klohmann, Giovanni Totò Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar,
Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond organ ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP http://www.HammondCast.com "The Jon Hammond Accordion Traveling Routine" - USA 
Due to heightened security measures at airports, accordionist Jon Hammond has now refined his method of
travelling with his accordion, hence "The Jon Hammond Accordion Traveling Routine". It goes like this: *Jon arrives at the airport with a soft piece of luggage and his instrument in its hard case.
*When checking in he explains to the Customer Service Agent that his instrument is essential to his work, irreplaceable, fragile, and worth several thousands of dollars. *He then displays the
instrument, removes it from the case and places the soft luggage inside the accordion case, then proceeds to the security check. *He sends the accordion through the x-ray machine wrapped in his
jacket. Sometimes the security people ask him to play it for them to demonstrate that it is a working instrument. *He then boards the aircraft with his accordion slung over his shoulder and carefully
places it in the overhead bin (it fits!), covered with a blanket or jacket so other passengers don't throw their stuff on top of it! Works every time! http://www.accordionradio.com/blog.html Excelsior Accordions Like Count Basie said folks: "One more time!" only this time it's Jon Hammond & Cab
Calloway - enjoy this priceless docu I personally shot & produced circa May 7th 1990 - declared "Cab Calloway Day" by the honorable David N. Dinkins then Mayor of New York City *LINK: https://www.facebook.com/hammondcast/videos/10154396629622102/ - MC'd by Bill Cosby & Phil Schaap remembering the great Arnie
Lawrence and so many of the musicians on the film who are no longer with us, i.e. Eddie Barefield, David "Panama" Francis, Milt Hinton, Earle Warren, Little Jimmy Scott, Eddie Bert, Donald Byrd,
Britt Woodman and many more - Jon Hammond @JON HAMMOND Intl. 
Jon Hammond plays Excelsior Accordions at Times Square, New York City 
#WATCHMOVIE HERE:
Beacons In Jazz Award Concert Cab Calloway Bill Cosby Historic Movie New School NYC May 7 1990 Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/BeaconsInJazzAwardConcertCabCallowayBillCosbyHistoricMovieNewSchoolNYCMay71990
by Jon Hammond Historic evening hosted by Bill Cosby, honoring Cab Calloway with legendary musicians and graduating musicians from New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music - filmed by Jon Hammond
at the request of Arnie Lawrence - this documentary is for historical purposes Commercial Use Strictly Prohibited - from the New School Archives: *Note: Revisions to metadata notes will follow soon -
Jon Hammond: – 4th Beacons in Jazz Awards Ceremony & Concert May 7, 1990 in the little theatre on 13th St., Mayor David N. Dinkins proclaimed May 7th as Cab Calloway Day in New York – and Cab was
presented The Beacons in Jazz Award by jazz historian Phil Schaap – an incredible evening with concert including Jazz Survivors Band with Panama Francis, Milt Hinton, Eddie Barefield and more legends
– then a large ensemble powered by the rhythm section of Bernard Purdie with Reggie Workman bass – horn section including the late great Arnie Lawrence, also Eddie Bert, Donald Byrd – many of these
cats have passed on sadly, special appearance by Little Jimmy Heath conducting and playing soprano saxophone. Julian Junior Mance at the piano with Billy Harper on tenor sax – graduating saxophonist
Walter Blanding Jr. played his old saxophone held together by rubber bands for the last time that night, as Cab Calloway personally presented him with a new Yamaha tenor saxophone which he
immediately played “You’ve Changed” joined by the all-star band and Little Jimmy Scott vocals – Bill Cosby hosted the entire night and participated in the music with gusto – incredible historic
evening that I personally documented – the project is now back in-progress 27 years later, Jon Hammond — with Bernard Purdie and Bernard Purdie at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music *Note
from Jon Hammond: Bud DiFluri from Yamaha presented the special Yamaha tenor saxophone to Walter Blanding Jr. - which was inscribed from Cab Calloway, but actually bought and paid for by Bill Cosby.
Walter eventually sold the saxophone. Anyone who knows where the instrument is or has it please contact either Jon Hammond or Bud DiFluri - Mr. DiFluri is now Professor of Marketing teaching at Nyack
College. Appears in my movie - Jon Hammond: Cab Calloway 
possibly Chuck Schumer to the right of the women - Jon Hammond 
Bobby Johnson trumpet legend takes the stage - Jon Hammond 
Ira Gitler American Jazz Journalist, Elaine Ellman documentary photographer looking on - Jon Hammond 
woman reading program, Bobby Johnson Arnie Lawrence, drummer Bernard Purdie in tuxedo - Jon Hammond 
MC's Bill Cosby, Phil Schaap, Bobby Johnson trumpet and Earle Warren Count Basie Orchestra alum alto saxophone - Jon Hammond
Bill Cosby, Red Richards, Milt Hinton, Eddie Barefield, Bobby Johnson & Earle Warren checking out Cosby - Jon Hammond
LaJazzO M-V Concert with Jon Hammond at the Zeughaus Wismar Youtube https://youtu.be/mN36dsQEFPo 149 views #149 Usage
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics Meckelnburg Vorpommern, Landesjugendjazzorchester, NDR Archive, Big Band, Michael Leuschner, Heinz Lichius, Camera, Zeughaus Wismar,
Landesmusikrat, Jon Hammond, #HammondOrgan #Jazz #Wismar download 1 file H.264 download download 1 file MPEG4 download download 1 file OGG VIDEO download download 1 file TORRENT Organ Meets Bigband
in The Zeughaus Wismar - Camera: Heinz Lichius Am 30.07.2015 ist das Landesjugendjazzorchester Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (LaJazzO MV) mit seinem diesjährigen Solisten Jon Hammond in der Hansestadt
Wismar zu Gast. 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1625578051045838/ 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. Im Programm sind unter anderem Titel von Jimmy Smith, arrangiert von Steve Grey - eine Leihgabe aus dem Archiv
der NDR-Bigband. Jon Hammond studierte in den siebziger 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. Programm: "Organ meets Bigband" Leitung: Michael Leuschner Donnerstag, d. 30.07.2015, 19:00 Zeughaus Wismar with Elli Soosz, Jan Rolle, Daniel Be, Leon Saleh,
Gabriel Rosenbach, Michael Leuschner, Heinz Lichius, Matthis Rasche, Hörni Thorun, Paul Gramkow, Marie Birkholz, Jan Boge, Ole Si, Elisabeth Guericke, Nane Schüßler, Henning Schiewer, Noah Jens,
Oliver Herlitzka, Anne-Katrin Meyer and Al Tobias at Zeughaus Wismar Producer Jon Hammond Language German Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/6842260423 AFM Local 6 Member Jon Hammond https://afm6.org/member-profile/jon-hammond-wheres-the-gig/ JON HAMMOND: “WHERE’S THE GIG?” - Alex Walsh Jon Hammond is a musician,
composer, bandleader, publisher, journalist, TV show host, radio DJ, and multi-media entrepreneur. He currently travels the world, playing gigs and attending trade shows. 
“Every time I see a
musician walking down the street I say, ‘Hey, where’s the gig?’ Because it doesn’t matter what kind of music you play, if you’re carrying an instrument–going to a rehearsal, or coming back from a
repair shop, whatever it is–we all need our gigs. And that’s what the union is all about. Hopefully, we can all keep working and be supportive of everybody’s gigs. There’s room for everybody.” THE
EARLY YEARS Jon Hammond was born in Chicago in 1953. His father was a doctor and his mother was a housewife. They both played the piano. In 1957, his parents moved Jon and his four sisters to
Berkeley, CA, where his father worked in a hospital as head of the emergency room. When he was nine, Jon started accordion lessons. “In those days, they had studios where parents would drop their
kids off after school for tap dancing and accordion lessons. There were accordion bands and they would compete against each other.” Jon played his first gig at a senior citizens luncheon when he was
eleven. Not only did he get a free lunch but he was paid $25 –a lot of money in those days. Jon says his father was supportive, but did not want him to pursue a music career. “He told me that music
was a great hobby. He got me a wonderful professional accordion for my Bar Mitzvah, directly from John Molinari, one of the greatest accordionists who ever lived. It was a Guilietti Professional Tone
Chamber accordion. That’s the accordion I won Jr. Jazz Champion on in 1966.” In high school, Jon attended a private boys school in San Francisco. He was a class clown, and when it got to the point
where he was going to be expelled, Jon took his accordion and ran away from home. He immersed himself in the San Francisco music scene and started playing organ in several bands. By 1971 he was in a
four piece rock group called Hades which shared a rehearsal space with Quicksilver Messenger Service. “I was friends with their manager, Ron Polte, who also managed guitarist John Cipollina. We got
to open for his band, Copperhead.” Jon continued to play gigs in the Bay Area in different configurations, including a few gigs with a young Eddie Money. By this time Jon had become frustrated with
the Bay Area scene. One night while playing a biker bar he got into a fight and his band didn’t come to his defense. “That was the last straw. I was angry and I said I wasn’t coming back.” 
Jon in the early 70s Jon
moved to Boston in 1973 to attend the Berklee School of Music. He also got a gig playing in Boston’s Combat Zone backing up burlesque shows. When Jon saw one of his idols, pianist Keith Jarrett play
in New York he told him he was going to Berklee and asked him for advice. “Keith looked me right in the eye and said ‘Berklee can be very dangerous for your music.’ It was like he popped this huge
bubble. Years later I came to understand what he was talking about. You have to learn the fundamentals, but the music itself comes from a much deeper place. They can’t teach that, you have to find it
yourself.” When Jon’s teachers began sitting in on his gigs in Boston, he questioned why he was in school if the teachers were coming to play with him. He quit school, moved to Cape Cod and started
playing with bandleader Lou Colombo. “He did all the private parties for Tip O’Neill. We played what they used to call the business man’s beat. On the gig it was forbidden to swing. It was like swing
cut in half. So if you tried to go with the four, Lou would say, ‘Don’t swing it, don’t swing it.’ He pounded it into my head night after night.” LATE RENT In 1981 Jon took a trip to Paris where he
broke through his writers block and wrote some of his best music. He returned to New York with his new tunes and started a production company with the idea of getting a record deal for a friend that
had played on a #1 hit record. After months of pounding the pavement with no results, Jon realized he had better work on his own music before his money ran out. He took the last of his savings,
including his upcoming rent money, and went into the studio to record what came to be known as “The Late Rent Sessions”. The session had Todd Anderson on tenor sax, Barry Finnerty on guitar, Stephen
Ferrone on drums, and Jon on B3. They recorded at Intergalactic, the last studio that John Lennon recorded in. Jon had no luck getting a record deal for his new project, but he did get gigs in New
York with his band Jon Hammond and the Late Rent Session Men. 
Jon Hammond Band Onstage
at NAMM, 2014: Joe Berger, Dom Famularo, Alex Budman, Koei Tanaka, Jon Hammond In 1982, Jon found out about public access television and the idea that anyone could produce a show and get it on TV. He
started broadcasting on Manhattan’s public station in 1984. “I decided I was going to produce a radio show on TV. The first episodes showed just my tapping foot and my voice. It was a gimmick. We had
graphics that were synchronized to go with the music. It worked out well. People dug it.” Within a few weeks, Jon was interviewed and featured in Billboard Magazine. The Jon Hammond Show was
considered an alternative to the clips on Cable TV. “MTV was still in its infancy. We had a concept that was revolutionary. My phone started ringing and we were the hot kids on the block.” LIVING
ABROAD Jon continued to play gigs in New York and produce his TV show. In 1987, he went to his first trade show (NAMM) where he was introduced to Mr. Julio Guilietti, the man who built his accordion.
He then began traveling to trade shows and making contacts with musicians and companies around the world, including Hammond Suzuki. “They gave me the Hammond XB-2, the first really powerful portable
Hammond organ. Glenn Derringer, one of my all-time heroes, presented it to me. I got one of the first. Paul Shaffer from the Letterman Show got the other. At the time there was only one EXP-100
expression pedal–we had to share the pedal. I used the pedal for my gigs and when Paul needed it I would bring it over to him at 30 Rockefeller Center on my bicycle.” In the early 90s, when his New
York gigs began drying up, Jon was encouraged to go to Germany. “It was a hard time. My father had just died and there were very few gigs. I got the XB-2 organ right when I needed it, so I decided to
take a chance. I bought a roundtrip ticket to Frankfurt with an open return. I went with 50 bucks and stayed for a year. When I came back, I had 100 bucks.” Jon stayed at a friend’s house and played
a borrowed accordion on the street until he could get a band together. “I played on the street until my fingers turned blue and would collect enough money to get some fish soup. After about two weeks
I got a call—I had put a band together and had 3 gigs coming up. A TV show had heard my story and wanted to do a story on me. At the first gig 19 people came; the second only 15 people came. Then I
got the little spot on TV. When I came to the third gig people were lined up down the street. When I walked up I thought they were having an art exhibit. When they said, ‘No, they’re waiting for
you.’ I choked up, I couldn’t even talk. So I’ve been playing there every year since. The people in Germany really saved my musical career at a time when very few things were happening for me in New
York or San Francisco. I have a really good following in Europe. I keep busy as a musician in the States, playing hospitals and assisted living places, but my band dates I pretty much play overseas.”
Jon’s Late Rent Sessions was eventually released on a German label and received modest airplay. During the 90s he travelled back and forth to Europe, spending a year playing gigs in Paris, and
eventually settling in Hamburg. Since then he has released two more albums and has played gigs in Moscow, Shanghai, and Australia. With the help of the internet, Jon is able to produce his TV show
anywhere. PRESENT DAY In the mid-2000s Jon produced Hammondcast, a radio program for CBS that aired in San Francisco at four in the morning and was rebroadcast before Oakland A’s games. “When the
baseball games played in the afternoon, my show would play for about 20 minutes and then it was pre-empted. I had a lot of fun with that.” His guests included Danny Glover, Barry Melton from Country
Joe & the Fish, and many local people. “It took me awhile to figure out that I had permission to broadcast anything I wanted. I could play the London Philharmonic or Stevie Wonder. My tag line
was ‘Hello, Hello, Hello! Wake up or go back to sleep…’” Today, Jon continues to visit tradeshows and is determined to keep doing everything he does as long as he can. “I made a pact with my longtime
co-producer, guitarist Joe Berger, that we are going to go to these trade shows until we are little old men with canes.” Jon has released four CDs 
For more info visit
www.jonhammondband.com #LaJazzO #Wismar #Zeughaus #HammondOrgan, LaJazzO M-V, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Organ Meets Bigband
Supermarket Tabloids du jour by Jon Hammond 
Supermarket Tabloids du jour by Jon Hammond Accordion Radio http://www.accordionradio.com/blog.html/jon_hammond_show_06_10/ with Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, P!nk, Taylor Swift, Katy
Perry, Megyn Kelly, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Ariana Grande, Steve Harvey, and Jon Hammond Funk Unit! + Life Magazine #WATCHMOVIE HERE: Jon Hammond Show 06 10 Jon's archive
https://archive.org/details/JonHammondShow0610 Jon Hammond Show public access TV show broadcast channel 1 on Manhattan Neighborhood
Network -MNN Air Time: 01:30 AM EST on 06/10 First segment "Lydia's Tune" from 1st Jon Hammond album (Late Rent) written in Paris 1981 after flying aboard the Concorde jet - JFK to CDG in 3 hrs. 26
minutes supersonic - performed here at Jon Hammond's 19th annual musikmesse Session in Jazzkeller Hofheim with the tenor saxophonist Peter Klohmann, Giovanni Totò Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar,
Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond organ ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP http://www.HammondCast.com "The Jon Hammond Accordion Traveling Routine" - USA 
Due to heightened security measures at airports, accordionist Jon Hammond has now refined his method of
travelling with his accordion, hence "The Jon Hammond Accordion Traveling Routine". It goes like this: *Jon arrives at the airport with a soft piece of luggage and his instrument in its hard case.
*When checking in he explains to the Customer Service Agent that his instrument is essential to his work, irreplaceable, fragile, and worth several thousands of dollars. *He then displays the
instrument, removes it from the case and places the soft luggage inside the accordion case, then proceeds to the security check. *He sends the accordion through the x-ray machine wrapped in his
jacket. Sometimes the security people ask him to play it for them to demonstrate that it is a working instrument. *He then boards the aircraft with his accordion slung over his shoulder and carefully
places it in the overhead bin (it fits!), covered with a blanket or jacket so other passengers don't throw their stuff on top of it! Works every time! http://www.accordionradio.com/blog.html Excelsior Accordions Like Count Basie said folks: "One more time!" only this time it's Jon Hammond & Cab
Calloway - enjoy this priceless docu I personally shot & produced circa May 7th 1990 - declared "Cab Calloway Day" by the honorable David N. Dinkins then Mayor of New York City *LINK: https://www.facebook.com/hammondcast/videos/10154396629622102/ - MC'd by Bill Cosby & Phil Schaap remembering the great Arnie
Lawrence and so many of the musicians on the film who are no longer with us, i.e. Eddie Barefield, David "Panama" Francis, Milt Hinton, Earle Warren, Little Jimmy Scott, Eddie Bert, Donald Byrd,
Britt Woodman and many more - Jon Hammond @JON HAMMOND Intl. 
Jon Hammond plays Excelsior Accordions at Times Square, New York City 
#WATCHMOVIE HERE:
Beacons In Jazz Award Concert Cab Calloway Bill Cosby Historic Movie New School NYC May 7 1990 Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/BeaconsInJazzAwardConcertCabCallowayBillCosbyHistoricMovieNewSchoolNYCMay71990
by Jon Hammond Historic evening hosted by Bill Cosby, honoring Cab Calloway with legendary musicians and graduating musicians from New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music - filmed by Jon Hammond
at the request of Arnie Lawrence - this documentary is for historical purposes Commercial Use Strictly Prohibited - from the New School Archives: *Note: Revisions to metadata notes will follow soon -
Jon Hammond: – 4th Beacons in Jazz Awards Ceremony & Concert May 7, 1990 in the little theatre on 13th St., Mayor David N. Dinkins proclaimed May 7th as Cab Calloway Day in New York – and Cab was
presented The Beacons in Jazz Award by jazz historian Phil Schaap – an incredible evening with concert including Jazz Survivors Band with Panama Francis, Milt Hinton, Eddie Barefield and more legends
– then a large ensemble powered by the rhythm section of Bernard Purdie with Reggie Workman bass – horn section including the late great Arnie Lawrence, also Eddie Bert, Donald Byrd – many of these
cats have passed on sadly, special appearance by Little Jimmy Heath conducting and playing soprano saxophone. Julian Junior Mance at the piano with Billy Harper on tenor sax – graduating saxophonist
Walter Blanding Jr. played his old saxophone held together by rubber bands for the last time that night, as Cab Calloway personally presented him with a new Yamaha tenor saxophone which he
immediately played “You’ve Changed” joined by the all-star band and Little Jimmy Scott vocals – Bill Cosby hosted the entire night and participated in the music with gusto – incredible historic
evening that I personally documented – the project is now back in-progress 27 years later, Jon Hammond — with Bernard Purdie and Bernard Purdie at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music *Note
from Jon Hammond: Bud DiFluri from Yamaha presented the special Yamaha tenor saxophone to Walter Blanding Jr. - which was inscribed from Cab Calloway, but actually bought and paid for by Bill Cosby.
Walter eventually sold the saxophone. Anyone who knows where the instrument is or has it please contact either Jon Hammond or Bud DiFluri - Mr. DiFluri is now Professor of Marketing teaching at Nyack
College. Appears in my movie - Jon Hammond: Cab Calloway 
possibly Chuck Schumer to the right of the women - Jon Hammond 
Bobby Johnson trumpet legend takes the stage - Jon Hammond 
Ira Gitler American Jazz Journalist, Elaine Ellman documentary photographer looking on - Jon Hammond 
woman reading program, Bobby Johnson Arnie Lawrence, drummer Bernard Purdie in tuxedo - Jon Hammond 
MC's Bill Cosby, Phil Schaap, Bobby Johnson trumpet and Earle Warren Count Basie Orchestra alum alto saxophone - Jon Hammond
Bill Cosby, Red Richards, Milt Hinton, Eddie Barefield, Bobby Johnson & Earle Warren checking out Cosby - Jon Hammond
LaJazzO M-V Concert with Jon Hammond at the Zeughaus Wismar Youtube https://youtu.be/mN36dsQEFPo 149 views #149 Usage
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics Meckelnburg Vorpommern, Landesjugendjazzorchester, NDR Archive, Big Band, Michael Leuschner, Heinz Lichius, Camera, Zeughaus Wismar,
Landesmusikrat, Jon Hammond, #HammondOrgan #Jazz #Wismar download 1 file H.264 download download 1 file MPEG4 download download 1 file OGG VIDEO download download 1 file TORRENT Organ Meets Bigband
in The Zeughaus Wismar - Camera: Heinz Lichius Am 30.07.2015 ist das Landesjugendjazzorchester Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (LaJazzO MV) mit seinem diesjährigen Solisten Jon Hammond in der Hansestadt
Wismar zu Gast. 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1625578051045838/ 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. Im Programm sind unter anderem Titel von Jimmy Smith, arrangiert von Steve Grey - eine Leihgabe aus dem Archiv
der NDR-Bigband. Jon Hammond studierte in den siebziger 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. Programm: "Organ meets Bigband" Leitung: Michael Leuschner Donnerstag, d. 30.07.2015, 19:00 Zeughaus Wismar with Elli Soosz, Jan Rolle, Daniel Be, Leon Saleh,
Gabriel Rosenbach, Michael Leuschner, Heinz Lichius, Matthis Rasche, Hörni Thorun, Paul Gramkow, Marie Birkholz, Jan Boge, Ole Si, Elisabeth Guericke, Nane Schüßler, Henning Schiewer, Noah Jens,
Oliver Herlitzka, Anne-Katrin Meyer and Al Tobias at Zeughaus Wismar Producer Jon Hammond Language German Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/6842260423 AFM Local 6 Member Jon Hammond https://afm6.org/member-profile/jon-hammond-wheres-the-gig/ JON HAMMOND: “WHERE’S THE GIG?” - Alex Walsh Jon Hammond is a musician,
composer, bandleader, publisher, journalist, TV show host, radio DJ, and multi-media entrepreneur. He currently travels the world, playing gigs and attending trade shows. 
“Every time I see a
musician walking down the street I say, ‘Hey, where’s the gig?’ Because it doesn’t matter what kind of music you play, if you’re carrying an instrument–going to a rehearsal, or coming back from a
repair shop, whatever it is–we all need our gigs. And that’s what the union is all about. Hopefully, we can all keep working and be supportive of everybody’s gigs. There’s room for everybody.” THE
EARLY YEARS Jon Hammond was born in Chicago in 1953. His father was a doctor and his mother was a housewife. They both played the piano. In 1957, his parents moved Jon and his four sisters to
Berkeley, CA, where his father worked in a hospital as head of the emergency room. When he was nine, Jon started accordion lessons. “In those days, they had studios where parents would drop their
kids off after school for tap dancing and accordion lessons. There were accordion bands and they would compete against each other.” Jon played his first gig at a senior citizens luncheon when he was
eleven. Not only did he get a free lunch but he was paid $25 –a lot of money in those days. Jon says his father was supportive, but did not want him to pursue a music career. “He told me that music
was a great hobby. He got me a wonderful professional accordion for my Bar Mitzvah, directly from John Molinari, one of the greatest accordionists who ever lived. It was a Guilietti Professional Tone
Chamber accordion. That’s the accordion I won Jr. Jazz Champion on in 1966.” In high school, Jon attended a private boys school in San Francisco. He was a class clown, and when it got to the point
where he was going to be expelled, Jon took his accordion and ran away from home. He immersed himself in the San Francisco music scene and started playing organ in several bands. By 1971 he was in a
four piece rock group called Hades which shared a rehearsal space with Quicksilver Messenger Service. “I was friends with their manager, Ron Polte, who also managed guitarist John Cipollina. We got
to open for his band, Copperhead.” Jon continued to play gigs in the Bay Area in different configurations, including a few gigs with a young Eddie Money. By this time Jon had become frustrated with
the Bay Area scene. One night while playing a biker bar he got into a fight and his band didn’t come to his defense. “That was the last straw. I was angry and I said I wasn’t coming back.” 
Jon in the early 70s Jon
moved to Boston in 1973 to attend the Berklee School of Music. He also got a gig playing in Boston’s Combat Zone backing up burlesque shows. When Jon saw one of his idols, pianist Keith Jarrett play
in New York he told him he was going to Berklee and asked him for advice. “Keith looked me right in the eye and said ‘Berklee can be very dangerous for your music.’ It was like he popped this huge
bubble. Years later I came to understand what he was talking about. You have to learn the fundamentals, but the music itself comes from a much deeper place. They can’t teach that, you have to find it
yourself.” When Jon’s teachers began sitting in on his gigs in Boston, he questioned why he was in school if the teachers were coming to play with him. He quit school, moved to Cape Cod and started
playing with bandleader Lou Colombo. “He did all the private parties for Tip O’Neill. We played what they used to call the business man’s beat. On the gig it was forbidden to swing. It was like swing
cut in half. So if you tried to go with the four, Lou would say, ‘Don’t swing it, don’t swing it.’ He pounded it into my head night after night.” LATE RENT In 1981 Jon took a trip to Paris where he
broke through his writers block and wrote some of his best music. He returned to New York with his new tunes and started a production company with the idea of getting a record deal for a friend that
had played on a #1 hit record. After months of pounding the pavement with no results, Jon realized he had better work on his own music before his money ran out. He took the last of his savings,
including his upcoming rent money, and went into the studio to record what came to be known as “The Late Rent Sessions”. The session had Todd Anderson on tenor sax, Barry Finnerty on guitar, Stephen
Ferrone on drums, and Jon on B3. They recorded at Intergalactic, the last studio that John Lennon recorded in. Jon had no luck getting a record deal for his new project, but he did get gigs in New
York with his band Jon Hammond and the Late Rent Session Men. 
Jon Hammond Band Onstage
at NAMM, 2014: Joe Berger, Dom Famularo, Alex Budman, Koei Tanaka, Jon Hammond In 1982, Jon found out about public access television and the idea that anyone could produce a show and get it on TV. He
started broadcasting on Manhattan’s public station in 1984. “I decided I was going to produce a radio show on TV. The first episodes showed just my tapping foot and my voice. It was a gimmick. We had
graphics that were synchronized to go with the music. It worked out well. People dug it.” Within a few weeks, Jon was interviewed and featured in Billboard Magazine. The Jon Hammond Show was
considered an alternative to the clips on Cable TV. “MTV was still in its infancy. We had a concept that was revolutionary. My phone started ringing and we were the hot kids on the block.” LIVING
ABROAD Jon continued to play gigs in New York and produce his TV show. In 1987, he went to his first trade show (NAMM) where he was introduced to Mr. Julio Guilietti, the man who built his accordion.
He then began traveling to trade shows and making contacts with musicians and companies around the world, including Hammond Suzuki. “They gave me the Hammond XB-2, the first really powerful portable
Hammond organ. Glenn Derringer, one of my all-time heroes, presented it to me. I got one of the first. Paul Shaffer from the Letterman Show got the other. At the time there was only one EXP-100
expression pedal–we had to share the pedal. I used the pedal for my gigs and when Paul needed it I would bring it over to him at 30 Rockefeller Center on my bicycle.” In the early 90s, when his New
York gigs began drying up, Jon was encouraged to go to Germany. “It was a hard time. My father had just died and there were very few gigs. I got the XB-2 organ right when I needed it, so I decided to
take a chance. I bought a roundtrip ticket to Frankfurt with an open return. I went with 50 bucks and stayed for a year. When I came back, I had 100 bucks.” Jon stayed at a friend’s house and played
a borrowed accordion on the street until he could get a band together. “I played on the street until my fingers turned blue and would collect enough money to get some fish soup. After about two weeks
I got a call—I had put a band together and had 3 gigs coming up. A TV show had heard my story and wanted to do a story on me. At the first gig 19 people came; the second only 15 people came. Then I
got the little spot on TV. When I came to the third gig people were lined up down the street. When I walked up I thought they were having an art exhibit. When they said, ‘No, they’re waiting for
you.’ I choked up, I couldn’t even talk. So I’ve been playing there every year since. The people in Germany really saved my musical career at a time when very few things were happening for me in New
York or San Francisco. I have a really good following in Europe. I keep busy as a musician in the States, playing hospitals and assisted living places, but my band dates I pretty much play overseas.”
Jon’s Late Rent Sessions was eventually released on a German label and received modest airplay. During the 90s he travelled back and forth to Europe, spending a year playing gigs in Paris, and
eventually settling in Hamburg. Since then he has released two more albums and has played gigs in Moscow, Shanghai, and Australia. With the help of the internet, Jon is able to produce his TV show
anywhere. PRESENT DAY In the mid-2000s Jon produced Hammondcast, a radio program for CBS that aired in San Francisco at four in the morning and was rebroadcast before Oakland A’s games. “When the
baseball games played in the afternoon, my show would play for about 20 minutes and then it was pre-empted. I had a lot of fun with that.” His guests included Danny Glover, Barry Melton from Country
Joe & the Fish, and many local people. “It took me awhile to figure out that I had permission to broadcast anything I wanted. I could play the London Philharmonic or Stevie Wonder. My tag line
was ‘Hello, Hello, Hello! Wake up or go back to sleep…’” Today, Jon continues to visit tradeshows and is determined to keep doing everything he does as long as he can. “I made a pact with my longtime
co-producer, guitarist Joe Berger, that we are going to go to these trade shows until we are little old men with canes.” Jon has released four CDs 
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