Published on Jul 13, 2015
Get Back In The Groove by Jon Hammond Funk Unit on the Acoustic Nation NAMM Stage in Concert – Artist Info
https://www.namm.org/summer/2015/even…
Joe Berger: Guitar
Roland Barber: Trombone
Louis Flip Winfield: Percussion
Jon Hammond: Organ
Cord Martin : Tenor Saxophone
Jon Hammond is an accomplished keyboard musician and accordionist. He is very generous with sharing his talents. He said, “The dates that I do in hospitals and assisted living facilities are not open to the public. I play a lot of dates for folks who are memory impaired and have other serious health issues – for those dates I just go in and play music for my people who can not go out and the only people who can bring cameras in there are Family. So I tend not to publicize any of my work in that sector.
I did a tour earlier this year of senior centers in the ethnic areas of San Francisco that was strictly solo accordion. It was supported by the musicians union and we had a lot of fun.”
His CD’s are available on www.musicforaccordion.com/inform.jon/index.htm
Jon will be featured at the NAMM night stage at the Sheraton Park Hotel on Thursday, Jan. 21. 2016. It will be his 30th NAMM show!
Location: NAMM Sheraton Acoustic Stage
Event Date: Thursday, January 21, 2016 – 9:00 to 9:40 PM
From his LinkedIn bio:
Jon plays Organ, Accordion, Piano, Guitar. He attended: Berklee College of Music 1974, City College San Francisco.He speaks English and German.Jon is closely identified with the two main products of his career, the Excelsior Accordion and the Hammond Organ.
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 with the late great trumpet player Lou Colombo 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 28th 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 www.mnn.org and on channels 56 and 108 in Manhattan. Jon is currently Host of daily CBS radio program “Jon Hammond’s Afternoon Slide” on KYCY 1550 AM. He performs in Hospitals, Nursing Homes & Prisons every month in addition to concerts world-wide.
For further information:
jonhammond@jonhammondband.com
