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Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Jon Hammond, Jerry Jemmott backstage at Hair Show

L to R: Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Jon Hammond, Jerry Jemmott aka Gerald "Fingers" Jemmott backstage at Hair Show at the Al Hirschfeld Theater on Broadway NYC. Bernard and Jerry have played together on numerous Atlantic Records recording sessions, most notably on Aretha Franklin's "Aretha Live at Fillmore West" March 1971. Jon Hammond was at the show and so was Danny Glover, they speak together about it on Jon's radio program HammondCast on KYOU Radio:http://www.jonhammondband.com/music-96.html
HammondCast 81 KYCY and KYOU 1550AM, a Special Visit with DANNY GLOVER! Hear Danny speak with Jon Hammond about his projects and growing up and living in San Francisco his entire life throughout his International traveling and super-successful career, he has always had a great love for SF Bay Area. Deeply involved in music and international social causes, Danny speaks about Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, John Coltrane, Aretha and many more. Music: ARETHA FRANKLIN (Live at Fillmore) "Reach Out And Touch", LOUIS ARMSTRONG "What A Wonderful World", JOHN COLTRANE "My Favorite Things" and JON HAMMOND "Six Year Itch" KYOU MEDIATANK
Bernard Purdie is playing the music of composer Galt MacDermot on HAIR nightly.
Bernard's drums on the set of HAIR, photo by Jon Hammond:


Uptempo LATE RENT Lift Off! 1989 Mikell's NYC as seen on The Jon Hammond Show TV Show

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Uptempo LATE RENT Lift Off! 1989 Mikell's TV: JON HAMMOND Combo Lifting Off at Mikell's NYC powered by the top-shelf Rhythm Section of BERNARD "PRETTY PURDIE drums & CHUGGY CARTER percussion, ALEX FOSTER sax, BARRY FINNERTY guitar and JON HAMMOND at his 1959 Hammond B3 Organ/bass. This highly uptempo rendition of "LATE RENT", Jon Hammond's theme song from his long-time TV and Radio show is cooking so hard that you won't believe it. Bernard's 2 children, Henry & Phyllis were there to hear their father on Hammond's band and make a cameo appearance. This film was previously shown on Jon's TV show "The Jon Hammond Show" now in 27th year on New York City cable access TV and other cities throughout USA © JON HAMMOND International ASCAP
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*WATCH VIDEO *HERE: LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY-- Jon Hammond Quartet, One Night Only with John Bishop guitar, Ronnie Smith Jr. drums, Louisville guitarist John Bishop who was finishing his Masters Degree in Music at University of Louisville at the time. Jon Hammond took Bay Area musicians Ronnie Smith Jr. drums, Alex Budman tenor sax and his Hammond organ there to Louisville to play what was originally supposed to be a live radio broadcast, 2 night-gig at The Jazz Factory, it turned in to One Night Only and John Bishop burned the house down..he was so mad at some of the local jazz hosers there at the University music program and at the club we were playing (we won't mention any names but one has a popular play along series). Ronnie Smith Jr. is one of the very best Shuffle & Funk drummers of the Bay Area, Alex Budman on tenor sax and Organist Leader & Radio TV Broadcaster Jon Hammond playing theme song "LATE RENT" a driving Shuffle. Late Rent is the theme song of The Jon Hammond Show TV Show and HammondCast radio show aka "Jon Hammond's Afternoon Slide" on CBS Radio KYOU and KYCY. CAMERA: JENNIFER Next morning we met Fred Noe III "The Bourbon Ambassador" of Jim Beam Liquors flying out of Louisville SDF. Special. thanks to Martin Z. Kasdan Jr. for the mention in his local column, the club was PACKED. © www.HammondCast.com ASCAP Network Behind The Beat with Jon Hammond "LATE RENT" Elmar Lemes photo of Jon Hammond playing XK-3 organ at Local 802 Monday Night Jazz Session sponsored by Jazz Foundation of America Jon Hammond MySpace HammondCast ASCAP Network Behind The Beat "NDR SESSIONS Projekt" Louisville Kentucky, John Bishop, Ronnie Smith Jr., Jon Hammond, One Night Only, Alex Budman, Late Rent, NDR Jazz, Axel Dürr, Knut Benzner, B3 Organ, XK-3c, XK-1, XB-2, Accordion, ASCAP Network, Blues

Watch The Video Here: Historic Live performance of CLAP BAND Hal Pearlman and Axel Geddes doing "This is My Notebook" at 6th Street Harm Reduction Center San Francisco with Late Rent introduction by Jon Hammond and Band with Larry Schneider tenor sax Ronnie Smith drums Bob Brumbeloe guitar Jon Hammond at the organ. Special thanks Ken Hayes Jr., Honarable Terence Hallinan, Monkees, Fillmore Auditorium and Bill Graham Presents © JH INTL. http://www.HammondCast.com Clap Band, Hal Pearlman, Axel Geddes, Jon Hammond, Monkees, Notebook, Organ, Hands together, HammondCast, KYOURADIO, Fillmore, Bill Graham Presents

Watch The Video Here: The late great tenor saxophonist David Fathead Newman getting down on Jon Hammond composition "Pocket Funk" Jon Hammond at the B3 Organ, explosive funk solo from Bernard Purdie "The Hit Maker", George Naha is the rhythm guitarist on this date at Zanzibar And Grill New York City May 17th 1990, camera: Joe Berger, R.I.P. David Newman and Zanzibar owner Eric Fuchsman ©JON HAMMOND Intl. ASCAP http://www.jonhammondband.com Jon Hammond is Host of Hammond Cast Show KYOURADIO Pocket Funk, David Fathead Newman, Jon Hammond, B3 Organ, Bernard Purdie, Hit Maker, Zanzibar, Jazz, Funky, Blues, Tenor, HammondCast, KYOURADIO, ASCAP

Watch The Video Here: Tenor Saxophonist David Fathead Newman on Jon Hammond Band theme song LATE RENT in Zanzibar and Grill NYC Bernard Purdie drums, Jon Hammond at B3 organ with his long time theme song of The Jon Hammond Show TV Show in 26th year on MNNTV Time Warner and RCN Cable New York City special thanks and R.I.P. Eric Fuchsman and David Fathead Newman © http://www.HammondCast.com catch Jon Hammond daily on HammondCast KYOURADIO Late Rent David Fathead Newman Jon Hammond HammondCast Bernard Purdie Ray Charles B3 Organ Zanzibar KYOURADIO

JOE FRANKLIN and JON HAMMOND Movie HammondCast Hammond Cast KYOURADIO "Up Late With Joe Franklin" Watch Video *Here: JOE FRANKLIN King of Late Night / Overnight Radio & TV with Jon Hammond here in New York City in offices of Joe's Memory Lane, cutting a spot for Hammond's daily morning radio program HammondCast. Hammond Cast is heard daily mornings on KYOURADIO / KYCY 1550 AM and streaming worldwide. *Note: Joe Franklin and the owners of Laugh Factory feed many people every year on Thanksgiving and Christmas / Channukah Holidays. Holidays alone is No Laughing Matter..thanks Joe! Sincerely, Jon Hammond *Member AF of M Local 802, Local 6 / ASCAP Publishing Joe Franklin in Laugh Factory shot by Jon Hammond *Watch video *Here: Jon Hammond on the scene covering Joe Franklin's annual Thanksgiving show and free turkey dinner at Laugh Factory NYC, a great tradition, Miracle on 42nd St.! Owner Richard Basciano an icon of Times Square says "By giving this holiday gift we want to give our thanks to the people NYC for making us what we are today ."No one should be alone on this day of giving thanks and all are invited. Come out for a day of food and fun and share good times with friends. Happy Thanksgiving from Times Square Arts Center and The World Famous Laugh Factory. Enjoy Joe Franklin legend of Radio & TV here! jh

From Russia With Love - Jon Hammond Trio Moscow Concerts

The story of my first concerts in Russia with Igor Butman (sax), Eduard Zizak (drums) by organist Jon Hammond (USA) for Jazz Quad

Coming to Russia to play in concert together with Igor Butman and Eduard Zizak recently, was one of the greatest experiences in my life/career! I was highly anticipating this journey for many reasons. First of all since my family originally came from Russia and Latvia many years ago, I had heard so many stories as a young child about the land and people I was about to visit. My grandparents were never able to return to Russia but when I arrived it felt like I was coming home.

From the beginning of my preparations I could see that this was not going to be any ordinary music tour! From obtaining visas it was apparent that the procedure was slightly different. I traveled with my girlfriend Jennifer on British Airways departing JFK to London and then from there we changed planes to Moscow. Upon arriving at Moscow SVO airport we quickly found ourselves among 20 persons who arrived with no baggage. There was nobody there to speak in English with from BA, so we had an interesting conversation and procedure with the official Lost and Found desk there and filled out the Baggage Irregularity Report papers. Leaving the customs area without our baggage we were very happy when we stepped out and saw a nice man holding a big Jon Hammond poster. We knew this was our man!
Luckily we came 2 days before the concerts and our bags were finally found and delivered to our hotel the next day.
Marat Garipov, the gentleman who came to pick us up, is one of Igor Butman's managers. Very nice guy and we had a great time speaking with him on the drive in to Moscow about his daughters and many shared interests. The traffic was very heavy coming in and it took about 1 1/2 hours to come in to Moscow, but we got a great first look at beautiful Moscow! What an incredible city...to me it looks like the Magic Kingdom that Walt Disney tried to recreate, only many of the buildings were built hundreds of years ago! Fantastic architecture.
When we checked in to the hotel, first we had to surrender our passports for some sort of official process. When we came up to our room on the 10th floor we found that we had a spectacular view of Red Square right outside our windows! The view was absolutely magnificent. Because it was the 3rd week of June, the days are the longest of the year and known as the White Nights. 10 at night looked like bright daylight! My first night I spent making many calls to trace our baggage and see about getting our passports back while my girlfriend slept. Finally back in posesssion of my instruments and our passports I was then very relieved and could really start enjoying the fact that I was really in Moscow!

The night before my first concert at Le Club, we were guests to attend the concert of bassist Alex Rostotsky and his fine group. We had a very enjoyable time dining and listening to Alex's music and got to meet him and his musicians later in the evening. We also had the pleasure of meeting Faina Antonova who is Igor's manager and also managing Le Club. She is very nice and took great care in arranging every detail of our stay in Moscow. I knew right away that we were in care of special angels. After a wonderful dinner/show and cappucinos at Le Club, Faina personally drove us back to our hotel, the famous Rossiya by Red Square. I was very tired by this point so I slept like a rock.

The next day was the big Friday of our first show. Most of the day I stayed in the room practicing my instrument and looking out at Red Square. Jennifer and I wanted to get to the club early so that we could get a sound check and settle in. Faina picked us up and we stuffed my organ and all our equipment in her compact car and off we went to Le Club in the Taganka Theatre Building.
When we arrived the big friendly doormen picked up my heavy cases like they were toothpicks and brought them up the stairs for me! Vladimir the sound engineer for the club was very smooth and professional, and a very nice guy. We got a good sound on the organ and then came Eduard Zizak the great drummer! I had already met Eduard in New York the week before when he was there performing with Igor's quartet at Birdland. Eduard is an incredible drummer and also a very nice guy. We made a little soundcheck and right away I could tell that he had listened to my music and we would lock up with some very tight grooves...no problem!
But where was Igor? I was hoping for a little mini-rehearsel with Igor but when I saw the public coming in to have dinner I knew it was too late for that! Igor arrived with his entourage and it was great to see him...he told me not to worry and apologised for not coming earlier. Igor is in big demand with a very busy schedule, so I am very lucky and honored that he could take the time to perform with me together even as his new cd album "Prophecy" was just released on the Universal Label.
We had time only for a 5 minute soundcheck and I showed Igor my book. This was going to be a very spontaneous performance, no doubt about it!
We decided to record it, and Vladimir did a fantastic job on the recording on their new digital recording console that they had just brought back from New York.
From the first notes I knew that this would be one of those magic nights I would never forget. The response from the audience was wonderful. I could only say in Russsian, "Ya LuBlu Vas"...which means, I love you all. And when I said the words to the people I got a great feeling back from them. First set was just fine and then on the break I was introduced to many press people and some fantastic local musicians. I was very honored that they all came to greet me. And then Igor proudly introduced me to 2 of the legendary jazz musicians of Moscow-accordionist Vladimir Danilin and guitarist Alexei Kuznezov. They said they had their instruments in the car and so yes we decided right away to make a live session together.
It was incredible from the first song on the 2nd set, playing together with these fantastic Moscow musicians! It felt like we had been playing together for 20 years. These musicians are some of the greatest I have ever heard and played together with. The audience was loving every bit of it, just as much as I! I was so happy that Vladimir was getting it all on tape and Jennifer was also running the video machine and taking pictures also. By the end of the night I was very satisfied with how everything went. Igor personally drove Jennifer and I back to the hotel in his nice car with fantastic sound system.
Great night!

The next day we got a nice tour from our friends Eva Steiner and her nice husband Leo from the Austrian Embassy. We ended the afternoon by having lunch in the Rossiya and I got to have my first excellent bowl of Borscht!
I excused myself afterwards to take a nap as I was quite tired and knew it would be another big night at Le Club. I had a refreshing sleep and then I must say that the shower at the Rossiya is the best shower I have ever had in my life! The shower head resembles a little Sputnick! The water comes out full force...no water saving there at the Rossiya. Wonderful.
This time when Faina picked us up we didn't have the organ with us. For the first time I left my instrument in the club because I could see the security there is excellent, 24 hours.
Already there were journalists at the club to meet. I was very happy to meet Cyril Moshkow. We had many e mails before coming and he is a very nice guy also and very serious jazz journalist. He is the president of the Russian Jazz Journalist organization. We had a nice conversation and Cyril took some pictures of the concert for his website. Also we met Igor Moskvichev from Russian "Hit Parade" magazine and Mr. Kumalo from the South African Embassy.