Jon Hammond at the Organ and Microphone
Hammond Report May 15 2021 From Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond
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Hammond Report May 15 2021 From Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's music story about playing with the NDR.de horns on the band, Jon Hammond Bandin Hamburg, Germany at the Auster Bar - on the band: the late great Lutz Büchner, Fiete Felsch, Michael Leuschner, Joe Berger, Heinz Lichius and yours truly Jon Hammond at the organ - camera by Nicolai Ditsch dankeschön Nicolai! My tune No X-Cess Baggage Blues - on my mind because I'm planning to start traveling again, and will be checking some excess oversize baggage for sho'!I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report, thanks for tuning in folks, Jon Hammond
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Jon Hammond
Recording and Touring Artist
Jon plays the SkPRO and Sk1
Jon began his musical career at age 12 in the San Francisco Bay Area playing organ and accordion in bands and solo engagements, first recording studio dates 1968 when he met Robert Moog who personally delivered the Moog III to San Francisco Radical Laboratories where Jon was working at the time and jamming daily with members of Quicksilver Messenger Service, he next joined original rock band Hades with which he played until moving East to attend Berklee.
Playing 7 nights a week in Boston’s notorious Combat Zone next lead to touring with successful show band Easy Living and then became house organist at the exclusive Wychmere Harbor Club Cape Cod MA where he played private parties for Tip O’Neill Speaker of The House. Returning to SF for a reunion concert in 1980 with Eddie Money and members of Tower of Power, next Jon moved to Europe where he lived and played for a number of years, still playing annually where he has an enthusiastic following. Jon began hosting his own TV show “The Jon Hammond Show” in 1984 and is now in 27th year on cable TV in Manhattan and heard daily on KYOU Radio HammondCast Show with regular appearances at international trade shows.