Microsoft Press Event Brought To You By HammondCast

*WATCH THE VIDEO: Microsoft Press Event HammondCast http://www.archive.org/details/JonHammondKINMicrosoftPMXDangerPhonePressEventHammondCastbroughttoyoubyJonHammond KIN Microsoft PMX Danger Phone Press Event HammondCast brought to you by Jon Hammond San Francisco-- KIN One and KIN Two the new smart phones, successor to the hugely popular Sidekick were introduced to the Press today by the folks from the PMX Division of Microsoft, Roz Ho in attendance, Mark Fisher SVP of Danger, now part of Microsoft and long-time Sidekick user since Oct. 8, 2002 Musician / Journalist Jon Hammond flew in from Frankfurt Germany where he had just wrapped up performing with his band for 24th consecutive year at the Musikmesse trade show. See his exclusive video coverage of the event here... San Francisco-- KIN One and KIN Two the new smart phones, successor to the hugely popular Sidekick were introduced to the Press
today by the folks from the PMX Division of Microsoft, Roz Ho in attendance,
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Mark Fisher SVP of Danger, now part of Microsoft and long-time
Sidekick user since Oct. 8, 2002 Musician / Journalist Jon Hammond flew in from Frankfurt Germany where he had just wrapped up performing
with his band for 24th consecutive year at the Musikmesse trade show.
See his exclusive video coverage of the event here, still warm, with musical intro and outro by Jon Hammond Band rocking out in the Jazzkeller
Frankfurt with Jon's original shuffle Blues composition No X-cess Baggage Blues with smoking Joe Berger guitar solo at end of the historic film
shot by Mr. Hammond personally as it took place at the Mighty San Francisco Club at 119 Utah St. in the hip emerging SOMISSPO area of SF
where SOMA, The Mission and Portrero Hill meet.

Jon Hammond is host of daily radio program HammondCast on CBS' KYOU Radio and Member of AFM Local 802 & Local 6 Musicians Union,
ASCAP Composer Publisher.
Jon Hammond Band:
Joe Berger guitar
Tony Lakatos tenor sax
Giovanni Gulino drums
Jon Hammond XK-1 organ
Jon Hammond met CNET Technology Reporter Ina Fried on the waffle line, see Ina's article Here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20002281-56.html?tag=smallCarouselArea.0

Also appearing a cameo by NOBUYUKI OKADA Bureau Chief THE NIKKEI Silicon Valley Bureau
Maggie Shiels Technology Reporter BBC

Robbie Bach Microsoft, Laura Dansingani Product Manager for Consumer Mobile Technology of Danger / PMX Division
John Harrobin senior vice president of digital media and marketing for Verizon Wireless
Derek Snyder, Senior Product Manager for KIN Team


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http://www.ourmedia.org/media/kin-microsoft-pmx-danger-phone-press-event-hammondcast-brought-you-jon-hammond

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Executive, Robbie Bach: KIN Unveiling, Remarks by Robbie Bach, President, Entertainment & Devices Division , San Francisco, Calif.

ROBBIE BACH: Good morning everybody. My name is Robbie Bach. I'm President of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. On behalf of our partners, Verizon, Vodafone and Sharp, I want to thank everybody for coming this morning., Now, this is really one of the better parts of my job, and I'm not talking about being with 100 of my closest friends in a bar at 10:00 a.m., that's not what I'm talking about. But it is an opportunity for us to reveal what we've been working on in Redmond, in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, with Verizon; in Northern Japan with Sharp; and on in England with Vodafone. I guess the best way to tell the story is to really go to the customers. And we've spent thousands of hours with thousands of interviews with customers to really understand their needs before we wrote a single line of code., So, let's take a look at a video of what they think about what they want in a phone., (Video segment.) as seen on HammondCast

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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/rbach/04-12kin.mspx?rss_fdn=Custom

Robbie Bach

KIN Logo brought to you by Jon Hammond

Prompter Screen for Robbie and the other speakers Powerpoint or Keynote presentation

Robbie Bach

Derek Snyder Senior Product Manager for KIN Team

Ina Fried CNET with Blackberry on the waffle line

Laura Dansingani Product Manager for Consumer Mobile Technology of Danger / PMX Division

KIN One and KIN Two

KIN Two screen

Brought to you by Jon Hammond of HammondCast KYOU Radio

Jon Hammond Band member guitarist Joe Berger's hands solo on No X-cess Baggage Blues

KIN, Microsoft, PMX, Roz Ho, Jon Hammond, Ina Fried, Mark Fisher, Danger, Pink, Phone, HammondCast, Sidekick, T-Mobile, Verizon, KYOU Radio, Local 802 Musicians Union *WATCH THE VIDEO: BLUES IN THE MOSCOW WHITE NIGHTS http://www.archive.org/details/JonHammondBLUESINTHEMOSCOWWHITENIGHTSJONHAMMOND_1 photo by Jon Hammond from 10th floor of Hotel Rossiya across from Red Square at midnight in late June "Blues In The Moscow White Nights"

Jon Hammond by the poster for his show in Moscow Russia at Le Club

Jon tries on a Russian fur hat at the GUM Store in Moscow

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 Cobham 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! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-34rP08PwrY *WATCH THE VIDEO: Sk1 Theme Song No X-Cess Baggage Blues

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The Nord Killer - Hammond Sk1

Hammond Sk2

Jon Hammond and Malc Deakin of Hammond Suzuki UK - Malc is on tour now in Poland!

*Jon is wearing DuckDuckGo search engine t-shirt, thanks Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo.com http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Hammond+Sk1+hammondcast Manji Suzuki President Founder of Suzuki Musical Instruments and Hammond Suzuki with Jon Hammond at New Digital B3mk2 Hammond Organ in Hamamatsu Japan