Hammond Report January 5 2021 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about playing my
tune "Czechoslovakian Salsa Song" with my band in the Ellington Room. I wrote the tune on one of my (4) trips to Prague. I took the train there with my organ and my
friend
Akio
Yono, when we got to Cheb that's where the trouble started (on the border) - on the band,
Todd
Anderson tenor,
Chuggy
Carter congas & percussion,
Joe
Berger guitar,
Ray
Grappone drums and yours truly
Jon
Hammond at my 1959 Hammond B3 organ + Bill Beer Leslie Speaker. I recorded the audio on my Nakamichi 550 field cassette recorder I bought back in 1976 from
Harvey Electronics on 45th Street New York - I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report, stay safe out there everybody!