Hammond Report June 12 2021 From Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & acccordionist Jon Hammond, today's music story is about playing gigs during pandemic via zoom connection - some live gigs starting to come in. I learned this tune when I was playing 7 nights a week down in the Boston Combat Zone, seems like every town I visit has a Willow Avenue or Willow Street - this one's for all my friends on the Willow somewhere - I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report,

Hammond Report June 10 2021 From Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's music story is about playing a showcase concert at the musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany Center Stage, with very special guests Joe Lamond President CEO of NAMM / NAMM Show drums and Michael Falkenstein keys on the Jon Hammond Band - Joe Berger g. Giovanni Totò Gulino d. Peter Klohmann t.s. and yours truly Jon Hammond o. at the Sk1 Hammond Organ. We are playing the theme song for my long-time cable TV show Jon Hammond Show, the song is entitled Late Rent. 

Current news, jazz and blues! Special thanks Wolfgang Lücke and announcer Eleftherios Mavros -

I'll be back tomorrow with another Hammond Report,

Jon Hammond 

Hammond Report June 8 2021 From Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist and accordionist Jon Hammond, today's music story is about playing with my band Jon Hammond Band on Center Stage at Frankfurt musikmesse with special guest Lee Oskar / Lee Oskar Harmonicas, Joe Berger, Peter Klohmann, Giovanni Totò Gulino and yours truly Jon Hammond at the organ. I did 33 consecutive years at musikmesse - hopefully we'll be back next year in 2022!

Have a beautiful day folks, join me again tomorrow for another Hammond Report,

Jon Hammond 

Hammond Report June 6 2021 From Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's music story is about playing a traditional Sunday Morning Blues & Jazz Session in the Hammond Suzuki stand at the NAMM Show! Koei Tanaka chromatic & diatonic harmonica master, Joe Berger guitar and Leslie box and yours truly Jon Hammond at the Hammond XK-1c 61 note stage organ - big kongrats to Meghan and Harry The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, welcome their daughter, Lilibet 'Lili' Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, to the world. Lili was born on Friday, June 4 at 11:40 a.m. in the trusted care of the doctors and staff at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, CA," ! Also the twitter-sphere is buzzing today about you-know-who's pants without a fly, something really weird is going on there! 

Have a beautiful Sunday folks, come back tomorrow for another Hammond Report,

Jon Hammond 

Hammond Report June 4 2021 From Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's music story takes place at Grindelallee 180 in Rotherbaum, Hamburg, Germany at the famous Little Snack's and More - TGIF, good news: The dance floor is open and the pasta is good folks!

On the trio formation of my band: Joe Berger, Heinz Lichius and yours truly Jon Hammond at the organ. Have a beautiful weekend, come back tomorrow for another Hammond Report,

Jon Hammond 

Hammond Report June 3 2021 From Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's music story about playing the very last gig of my well-traveled XB-2 Hammond organ before I had to retire the instrument. I went all over the world with it since 1991, it served me well! We had a beautiful party in Jazzkeller with a chocolate cake for my birthday, Joe Lamond was in the house - on the band, Tony Lakatos, Giovanni Toto Gulino, Joe Berger and yours truly Jon Hammond at the organ. Today I visited my old neighborhood in Sea Cliff by Robin Williams house where I had met him by China Beach. Have a beautiful night folks, come back tomorrow for another Hammond Report,

Hammond Report June 1 2021 From Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's Tuesday music story about returning to Nashville next month for 2021 Summer NAMM Show - everything's looking Green-to-Go! Here we are playing my tune Pocket Funk in a hoity toity hotel, the room manager lady made me take my Hammond flag down, most likely we'll play another place and during the show - be sure and look us up if you go to Summer NAMM folks! On the band here: Chuggy Carter Leslie J. Carter, Joe Berger, Louis Flip Winfield and yours truly Jon Hammond at the portable Hammond organ. Yesterday was Memorial Day, the flags were out, and I put mine out - stay safe and keep the Spirit folks! Come back tomorrow for another Hammond Report,

Jon Hammond 

Hammond Report May 31 2021 From Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's music story about playing quartet gig in Indigo Blues Club in the basement of Hotel Edison on 46th Street, it was part owned by Miles Davis - on the Jon Hammond Band: Jack Wilkins, Alex Foster, Bernard Purdie and yours truly Jon Hammond at the Hammond B3 organ - it's Memorial Day today, remembering the fallen, the Veterans and active duty Military - thank you for your service! 11 days to Bernard Purdie's 82nd Birthday, happy early 82nd Bernard, and many more!! Come back tomorrow for another Hammond Report folks - Jon Hammond 

Thanks to Joe Berger for shooting my Panasonic PV-430D video camera