Special Concert Right in Front of Famous City Hall San Francisco California Jon Hammond Band

*WATCH THE FILM HERE: Special Concert Right in Front of Famous City Hall San Francisco California Jon Hammond Band Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondLateRentSanFranciscoCityHallConcertJonHammondBand by Jon Hammond Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Topics late rent session men, b3 organ, jon hammond show, cable tv local 6, musicians union, ascap Jon Hammond and The Late Rent Session Men performing in front of San Francisco City Hall original composition "Late Rent" - Theme Song of The Jon Hammond Show, with Jon Hammond at his 1965 B3 organ along with Barry Finnerty guitar, James Preston (of Sons of Champlin Band) drums, Harvey Wainapel tenor sax, Steve Campos trumpet / flugelhorn As seen on The Jon Hammond Show cable TV program http://www.jonhammondband.com Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/GetBackInTheGrooveJonHammondBand Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP Frankfurt Germany -- World Famous jazzkeller at Jon Hammond's annual musikmesse Warm Up Party very special performance Jon Hammond Band in Jazzkeller Frankfurt "Get BAck in The Groove" by Jon Hammond Jon Hammond Band: Tony Lakatos t.s. Joe Berger g. Giovanni Totò Gulino d. special guest: Lee Oskar harmonica Jon Hammond Sk1 organ covering the bass http://www.jonhammondband.com Thanks to Thomas Eich for lending me his personal TecAmp bass amp for my Sk1 Hammond Organ Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/TheCarvinProAudioSessionsNAMMShow Youtube http://youtu.be/zUT9Ubt7ugQ The Carvin Pro Audio Sessions Winter NAMM Show with Jon Hammond at the organ "White Onions" Joe Berger playing custom "Wildman" JJ Guitar with one Bill Lawrence pickup Gold hardware, Chuggy Carter / Leslie J. Carter percussion - special thanks Carson Kiesel and Carvin Pro Audio Team http://www.carvinguitars.com/ Hercules Folding Stands, JJ Guitars http://www.HammondCast.com/ ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP Dailymotion http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2g3pe5_the-carvin-pro-audio-sessions-nammshow_music CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1211139 Jon Hammond Band Facebook https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=987046917990772 Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondFunkUnitHEADPHONE Youtube http://youtu.be/csw4JVGbnDs Jon Hammond Funk Unit "Head Phone" lunch set and Bernard Purdie Book Commercial - his new book "Let The Drums Speak!" - Jon Hammond leader at the Hammond organ, Dom Famularo drums, Joe Berger guitar, Koei Tanaka harmonica, Alex Budman tenor saxophone, Leslie J. Carter aka Chuggy Carter percussion Winter NAMM Show Anaheim California NAMM Center Stage *NOTE: This photo by Jon Hammond appears on page 125 in the Bernard Purdie book "Let The Drums Speak" - since I wasn't credited I will give my own credit. I have the original photograph - JH Soundcheck Time at BB King's 42nd Street with Bernard Purdie flanked by Miho Nobuzane from Osaka - piano and Tetsuya Sato from Tokyo - bass - Jon Hammond - 7.30PM hit tonight with a second set at 10PM - Bernard just put up his signature Sabian cymbals - looks like he is playing some Canopus drums ce soir (this evening) - no cell phone reception down in BB King's folks, http://www.HammondCast.com/ #TheNAMMShow — with Bernard Purdie, Koei Tanaka, Leslie J. Carter, Dom Famularo, Alex Budman, Bernard Purdie, Chuggy Carter, Koei Tanaka / 田中光栄 - fan site and Joe Berger at The NAMM Show. CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1210951 Vimeo http://vimeo.com/118254029 Dailymotion http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2g0e3i_jon-hammond-funk-unit-head-phone_music Jon Hammond Band Facebook https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=986429621385835 I played my Hammond organ through this badass bass amp from Eden Bass Amps on my lunch time NAMM Showcase, some real nice basso profundo! - Jon Hammond http://kernelpanichammondcast.blogspot.com/2015/01/thenammshow-white-onions-jon-hammond.html #TheNAMMShow "White Onions" Jon Hammond Funk Unit NAMM Showcase *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: #TheNAMMShow "White Onions" Jon Hammond Funk Unit NAMM Showcase Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/TheNAMMShowWhiteOnionsJonHammondFunkUnitNAMMShowcase Youtube http://youtu.be/EKavYAXYYw4 #TheNAMMShow "White Onions" Jon Hammond Funk Unit NAMM Showcase lunch set https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2015/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit 23rd 2015 reprising 1989 Late Rent Sessions recording ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP with special guest Bernard Purdie drums, Leslie J. Carter percussion Jon Hammond organ (original members on record) featuring Koei Tanaka chromatic harmonica from Tokyo Japan Suzuki world star, Joe Berger guitar JJ guitars, Alex Budman tenor saxophone Dom Famularo returning to the NAMM Stage Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/CafeKLEMMFlashbackGigForHansRomanovNowTheCafeCrumble Youtube http://youtu.be/1CD4XABvE4Y CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1194867 Vimeo http://vimeo.com/113770094 Dailymotion http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2bvkdp_cafe-klemm-flashback-gig-for-hans-romanov-now-the-cafe-crumble_music Jon Hammond Band Facebook https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=948891765139621 Frankfurt Bockenheim -- Jon Hammond Flashback Gig for Hans Romanov in the Café KLEMM now called Café Crumble Kiesstraße 41 60486 Frankfurt am Main, Germany - Jon Hammond Band featuring some fine tenor saxophone playing by Harry Petersen, Heiko Himmighoffen drums / schlagzeug - Jon Hammond at the organ & bass through a Marshall Amp courtesy of a friend of Hans - special thanks dankeschön Stefan Klemm and Hans Romanov http://www.HammondCast.com/ - Jon Hammond Band — with Jon Hammond, Harry Petersen, Heiko Himmighoffen and Hans Romanov at Café Crumble. Flashback: Jam with Hary Lin & Joe Berger! Jon Hammond at Frankfurt musikmesse — with Joe Berger and Hary Lin Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondAndFriendsJazzSpotSwing Youtube http://youtu.be/x6a8MHYESqc Jon Hammond and Friends drop in to Taipei night spot JAZZ SPOT SWING organ lounge, Jon at Mr. Nobuki Kuwahara's Hammond Sk2 organ with house musicians - Kenichi Toyoda piano - special thanks to Nico, Shannon, Letitia - Superlux Taiwan, P. Mauriat Europe Pmauriat Albest Team! http://www.HammondCast.com/ - Jazz Spot Swing Vimeo http://vimeo.com/110027287 CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1182889 Jon Hammond Band Facebook https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=924772564218208 Mayor Willie Brown, DA Terence Hallinan, San Francisco City Hall, Jon Hammond, Special Concert, #HammondOrgan #1965 #JamesPreston #drums #Local6 Musicians Union

Community Access TV: Jon Hammond Show preview 07/04

*WATCH THE FILM HERE: Community Access TV: Jon Hammond Show preview 07/04 Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/6842260704 Community Access TV: Jon Hammond Show preview 07/04 Edit by Jon Hammond Published June 28, 2015 Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics Community Access TV, MNN TV Channel 1, Jon Hammond Show, Lew Soloff Celebration Movie, Part 4, Al Jazzbeaux Collins, Jazzbo Collins, Jazz, Blues, Documentary, #HammondOrgan #Local802 #Broadcaster Producer Jon Hammond Language English Community Access TV: Jon Hammond Show preview as seen on MNN TV Channel 1 Community Channel, 32nd year on air - 07/04 includes Part 4 from Jon Hammond Documentary Lew Soloff Celebration Movie Part 4 condensed clip from Jon Hammond Documenting from The House - June 8, 2015 in the John C. Borden Auditorium Manhattan School of Music - with astounding heartfelt musical perfromances by cellist Adam Mandela Walden accompanied by Kyung-Eun Na piano, NEA Award Winning trumpeter Jimmy Owens, Emily Mitchell piano Jesse Levy cellist in duo, remembrances by Blue Lou Marini playing with Randy Brecker and all star rhythm section, Danny Gottlieb, Mark Egan, Pete Levin, Gil Evans Orchestra, Chris Rogers feature protoge of Lew's - top musicians in New York - greatest musical tribute perhaps ever to celebrate the life of Lew Soloff the much loved world-renowned Trumpeter, Father, Educator, in memory of Lew Lena Soloff, sincerely, Jon Hammond Event Producer - Noah Evans - Gil Evans Page - Press Release from Lew's manager Nancy Meyer, LINK: http://www.lewsoloff.com/Celebration%20for%20Lew%20Soloff%20Press%20Release%20Number%203.pdf MUSICIANS JOIN TOGETHER TO HONOR LEW SOLOFF AN EVENING OF MUSIC AND REMEMBRANCE – MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2015 New York – A prestigious group of the jazz world’s finest players will pay tribute to their colleague, legendary trumpet player Lew Soloff (Feb. 20, 1944-Mar 8, 2015) on Monday, June 8, 2015 at the John C. Borden Auditorium, located at the Manhattan School of Music (MSM). For furtherinformation please contact Caryn Freitag - camera: Jon Hammond - Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM Lena Soloff, Emily Mitchell, Nancy Meyer, Laura Solomon, Blue Lou Marini, Lew Soloff, Alex Foster, Noah Evans, Chris Rogers, Jimmy Owens, Randy Brecker, Tom Bones Malone, Bill Warfield, Caryn Freitag, Miles Evans and Lisa Maxwell at Manhattan School of Music. and then back a few years: "Jazzbeaux Collins Movie by Jon Hammond" The late great radio and TV broadcaster personality Al Jazzbeaux Collins in the studios of KCSM Jazz 91 with organist Jon Hammond - aka Al Jazzbo Collins, one of the greatest and most definitely coolest broadcasters who ever lived. *Note: I dearly miss Jazzbeaux, he was a huge inspiration to me personally. He broke out my music on the air back in New York on WNEW 1130AM huge powerful door he opened for me, we had a lot of fun together on both coasts - he introduced me to folks like Lionel Hampton, David Panama Francis, Lew Anderson band leader and Clarabell the Clown from It's Howdy Doody Time! TV Show, Joe Bushkin pianist, and his Family the Collins Family - he knew every door man garbage man and taxi drivers on the street - rest in peace Albert! sincerely, Jon Hammond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_%22Jazzbo%22_Collins Albert Richard "Jazzbo" Collins (born January 4, 1919, Rochester, New York[1] — d. September 30, 1997, Marin County, California) was an American disc jockey, radio personality and recording artist who was briefly the host of NBC television's Tonight show in 1957. The name "Jazzbo" derived from a product Collins had seen, a clip-on bowtie named Jazzbows. Just as Martin Block created the illusion that he was speaking from the Make Believe Ballroom, Collins claimed to be broadcasting from his inner sanctum, a place known as the Purple Grotto, an imaginary setting suggested by radio station WNEW's interior design. ©JON HAMMOND International http://www.HammondCast.com Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/GetBackInTheGrooveMusikmessesession by Jon Hammond Published May 29, 2015 Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics #HammondOrgan #Musikmesse2015 #Hofheim #Groove Jon Hammond Session #ASCAPExpo Composer #SoulMusic "Get Back in The Groove" musikmessesession in Jazzkeller Hofheim - Peter Klohmann ts Giovanni Totó Gulino d Joe Berger g Jon Hammond o http://www.HammondCast.com ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP Producer Jon Hammond Language English Youtube https://youtu.be/D-dNDA0bUuI CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1245601 Vimeo https://vimeo.com/129340567 Jon Hammond Band Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jonhammondband/videos/vb.133709526657853/1065785310116932/?type=3&theater Air France Airbus A380 - aka "Flying Forehead"! - Jon Hammond "Some unofficial nicknames of Airbus A380 are flying forehead, mammoth jet, Whale Jet flying. Green Giant is also unofficial nickname of Airbus A380. Low fuel consumption of the engines and pollutant levels far below the levels required by the strictest of standards are behind the justifying of this name." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380 The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner manufactured by Airbus. It is the world's largest passenger airliner, and the airports at which it operates have upgraded facilities to accommodate it. It was initially named Airbus A3XX and designed to challenge Boeing's monopoly in the large-aircraft market. The A380 made its first flight on 27 April 2005 and entered commercial service in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines. The A380's upper deck extends along the entire length of the fuselage, with a width equivalent to a wide-body aircraft. This gives the A380-800's cabin 478 square metres (5,145.1 sq ft) of usable floor space, 40% more than the next largest airliner, the Boeing 747-8,[4] and provides seating for 525 people in a typical three-class configuration or up to 853 people in an all-economy class configuration. The A380-800 has a design range of 8,500 nautical miles (15,700 km) Taillights at Dusk - do we have enough cars yet? Jon Hammond — at San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Bring on The Freight! - Port of Oakland, Jon Hammond — at Port of Oakland. No X Cess Baggage Blues Jon Hammond​ with NDR Horns Hamburg Auster Bar http://hammondcast.blog.ca/2015/05/30/no-x-cess-baggage-blues-jon-hammond-with-ndr-horns-hamburg-auster-bar-20485799/ Jon Hammond Late Rent Session Men w/ Bernard Purdie MIKELL'S *LINK: https://youtu.be/6FSQrnuKDLU Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondEDDIEMONEY_JONHAMMONDonHammondCastKYOURadio Jon Hammond and Eddie Money go back over 35 years in just over 6 minutes in this radio interview on Jon's daily radio program HammondCast on KYOU Radio 1550 AM, onboard Eddie's tour bus just before doing a show to a packed house at BB King's Club in New York City for a hometown crowd of diehard Eddie Money fans friends and family in from Long Island, Queens, and Jon now lives in Times Square. A menagerie of images from Jon Hammond's personal archives going back to the '70's and the night of the concert accompanies the audio as heard on HammondCast KYOU Radio 1550 AM and streaming worldwide ©JON HAMMOND International http://www.HammondCast.com Baby Hold On, Two Tickets to Paradise, Take Me Home Tonight, Shakin', Trinidad, I Wanna Go Back, Walk on Water, Think I'm in Love, Wanna Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star, We Should Be Sleeping, No Control, Where's The Party, I'll Get By, You Don't Know Me Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/6842260411 Youtube https://youtu.be/FfOCHD1TkV8 Jon Hammond Show Preview MNN Channel 1 on air 04/04 featuring original Jazz Blues and Soft News - first segment filmed in Hamburg Eimsbüttel live in Auster Bar Jon Hammond Band with NDR Horns musical director Michael Leuschner trumpet, Lutz Büchner tenor saxophone, Fiete Felsch alto saxophone, Funky Heinz Lichius drums feature on this one, Joe Berger guitar, Jon Hammond organ + bass http://www.HammondCast.com/ Auster Jazz Series - then to Anaheim California special showcase Jon Hammond Band featuring Bernard Purdie on Jon's original funky jazz composition "Head Phone" with Bernard Purdie fatback drum, Koei Tanaka Suzuki Harmonica star, Alex Budman tenor, Joe Berger guitar, Jon Hammond at the New B3 Mk2 Portable organ with high-power model 3300 Leslie speaker covering the bass as well - musical history here at The NAMM Show JON HAMMOND AT JAZZKELLER, FRANKFURT – COMPLETE ALBUM: https://marcostachikawafotografia.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/jon-hammond-at-jazzkeller-frankfurt-complete-album/comment-page-1/#comment-895 do jazz já se apresentaram ali e as fotos de muitos deles decoram suas velhas paredes. Já na entrada percebe-se que o local não é para grandes agitos e nem tão pouco é o melhor local para se jogar conversa fora ou para se fazer happy-hour. Não. Ali se respira jazz, e dos melhores. Na noite em que fomos estava lá o Jon Hammond. Enquanto descia a íngreme escadaria, percebi que deveria ter levado mais lentes, mais baterias, mais cartões de memória… rsrsrsrs… Logo na entrada pedi a autorização do proprietário da casa para fazer algumas fotos, no que recebi um largo sorriso como resposta e o aguardado “…as many as you want, my friend!” E pronto, fiz as fotos dos amigos que estavam por lá só por educação (rsrsrsrsrsrsrs!! …que nada, essas fotos foram devidamente publicadas nas redes sociais) e assim que pude, saí pra curtir e fotografar esse lendário tecladista. Abaixo, algumas das fotos, espero que gostem! Os amigos que estavam comigo? Sei lá, nem vi a hora em que foram embora… rsrsrs… Um abraço, Marcos Tachikawa Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/ImprovedAudioUndergroundFrankfurtJonHammondBandIntimBarLissania1 Jon Hammond Band circa 1992 Underground Frankfurt Scene Night Shows in Europa Intim Bar and Lissania in Frankfurt's Red Light District during musikmesse. Original Funk tunes "Pocket Funk" and "Nu Funk" aka "Hip Hop Chitlins" Note: sadly funky drummer James Preston has passed, long-time drummer in various formations of Jon Hammond Band, Sons of Champlin, Cold Blood with Lydia Pense, RIP Jimmy - Al Allen Wittig tenor saxophone, Barry Finnerty guitar, Jon Hammond organ, funky James Preston drums - special thanks to Joe Berger Hans Romanov Europa INTIM Bar ElbeStrasse 34, 60329 Frankfurt and Stefan Hantel aka Shantel Lissania on the Kaiserstrasse Youtube http://youtu.be/3wjgB0moazk - as seen on cable access show The Jon Hammond Show now in 31st year - all music ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP http://www.HammondCast.com/ — with James Preston and Jon Hammond at KiezPraline CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1188407 Dailymotion http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2a7z74_underground-frankfurt-jon-hammond-band-intim-bar-lissania_music Jon Hammond Band Facebook https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=936450226383775 Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondAndFriendsJazzSpotSwing Youtube http://youtu.be/x6a8MHYESqc Jon Hammond and Friends drop in to Taipei night spot JAZZ SPOT SWING organ lounge, Jon at Mr. Nobuki Kuwahara's Hammond Sk2 organ with house musicians - Kenichi Toyoda piano - special thanks to Nico, Shannon, Letitia - Superlux Taiwan, P. Mauriat Europe Pmauriat Albest Team! http://www.HammondCast.com/ - Jazz Spot Swing Vimeo http://vimeo.com/110027287 CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1182889 Jon Hammond Band Facebook https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=924772564218208 Koei Tanaka and Jon Hammond - special NAMM Lunch Set NAMM Show Center Stage Jon Hammond Band photo by Lawrence Gay HammondCast - CNN iReport - http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1231127 MNN Channel 1 Jon Hammond Show Preview 04/11 Original Jazz Blues and Soft News My Mom's Rose plant is in bloom - Jon Hammond Mr. Shuji Suzuki and Jon Hammond - MNN Jon Hammond's new ultra-bright flashlight from Maglite now on the job "Mini Maglite Pro LED Flashlight NEW Ultra Bright 226 Lumens" - now on tour - Silver The Famous Tall Paul of West Oakland: The Famous Tall Orange Bicycle Man of West Oakland Sighted today aka "Tall Paul" - Jon Hammond​ "THIS MAN IS TRANSFORMING OAKLAND ONE AWESOME CUSTOM BIKE AT A TIME" Photo: ©JON HAMMOND International http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/7062-this-man-is-transforming-oakland-one-awesome-custom-bike-at-a-time by R. A. SCHUETZ Mar 20 at 6am I first met Tall Paul as he was walking out of the Oakland Home Depot toting a giraffe of a bike. It was orange with gold accents — pedals, spokes, and pinwheel-shaped mags — and its body was made of interlocking triangles stacked so tall the handlebars stood at roughly my height. I was impressed and asked if I could take a closer look. “Of course,” he said, and began showing it off. Tall Paul is tall — over six feet — with soft, dark curls he usually hides under a baseball cap. He’s cordial, but when he starts talking bikes, a kind of electric and childlike wonder steals over him. You can’t help but feel enthusiastic too. When I asked how he mounts such an ungainly ride, he demonstrated by giving it a shove as he jogged a few steps beside it, then he clambered up the triangles of the frame like they were a ladder. “Where did you get it?” I asked him. “I made it,” he said. Patting his bike, he explained: “Last fall, I was out with one of the double-stackers when I saw a couple of kids cutting school. They were about 10 years old; I saw them cutting class all of the time. And when I saw the kids, I saw they were excited about the bike. They were like, ‘Wow!’ And I thought, ‘Hey, that might be something I can do to get them back in class.’” Paul made the two boys an offer: if they went back to school and got three A’s on their next report cards, he’d give each of them a bike. “And it worked,” he said, laughing. “They turned out to be really smart kids. They just got caught up messing around in the streets and cutting school and stuff. They’d been doing it for a while.” Now Paul has a standing offer to reward any kid who makes three A’s on his or her report card. While Paul doesn’t have the resources to give everyone a bike, if an A student brings him a frame to work with — even if it’s so rusted it no longer runs — he restores and customizes it. He invited me to come by and watch him work on his bikes sometime. He lives near the Home Depot in a mobile home “parked illegally,” which, I later learned, means he stays put for street sweeping because he’s cultivated relationships with city employees, who sometimes chip in a few dollars for the bikes he’s fixing up for students. That he’s able to stay in one location is part of what’s made him a neighborhood fixture — even beyond Oakland, parents from San Jose and Hayward know to bring their kids’ report cards to him. On the day I visited, his place was instantly recognizable by the bikes stacked on the roof. When Paul saw me, he greeted me with a hug and began hauling bikes out of his home and propping them on the sidewalk. One after another, there they were: double-stacks, choppers, and, finally, the little black-and-gold frame of a child’s bike with its wheels in disrepair. This bike, painted in Paul’s signature colors, is to be the prototype that introduces his bike program to schools in the area, starting with Prescott Elementary in Oakland. Paul's idea is to donate a tricked-out ride every report card season, which the school would prominently display. Every A on a student’s report card would be an entry into a raffle to win the bike. If schools take to it, his goal is to work with as many as he can. Tall Paul started tinkering with bikes when he was just a child himself — as he remembers it, he was five years old. His mother had saved up to buy him and his six brothers and five sisters bikes for Christmas. While everyone else was out riding theirs, Paul took his down to the basement and dismantled it. “I wanted to see what made it work,” he said. The passion for taking bikes apart and putting them back together hasn’t left him. “I like everything about it,” he said. “It’s an art.” One of his passions is sanding down the metal of a rusty bike and erasing the ravages of time until the frame gleams. “You see, when you sand it, you take your hand, and you feel the bike. You don’t want to feel a scratch; you don’t want to feel a nick; you don’t want to feel nothing. Like a baby’s butt — smooth.” When he’s finished, he puts it all back together and makes sure it runs well, then carefully paints each piece down to the spokes in the white-walled wheels, then buffs everything to a lustrous shine. For his own bikes, his finishing touch is a rhinestone “TP” (for “Tall Paul") affixed between the handlebars. He also plans to add gears to his double-stacks. A few pigeons milled about on the sidewalk where Paul was working. He said the birds know him, just like the rest of the neighborhood does. “They recognize me,” he said. “I could ride my bike right to the corner and stop, and birds will fly down from everywhere and come to it.” He took a break to coax them near. That day there were maybe a dozen, but he explained that on Sunday there’s inevitably a flock around him. Crouching among the birds, he told me he also dreams of opening a shop so that he can scale his operation. Although the bikes he hasn’t started restoring yet can rest atop his mobile home, he has to take all of his finished and in-progress bikes inside when he’s not working on them. Plus, he has several bikes of his own. This means he usually accepts only two bikes at a time from children and tells others to come back in two days. With a shop, he’d have space to store bikes and tools, as well as a location for business. “I’d love to get this program into every school in the world for all the kids,” he said, referring to his bike raffle. But he’s taking it one step at a time. For now, he’s on the lookout for any bike that people have given up on and are selling for scrap metal, which he can buy for a few dollars. “I get whole bicycles that probably come off a bush or somewhere. They have all these leaves in them and chains so rusted, you can’t even turn them. But I bring them back to life.” *Note: photos must be credited ©JON HAMMOND International / Jon Hammond - Jon's photos on Alcatraz Island Federal Penitentiary attending Art Exhibit of Chinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei huge installation on "The Rock" while celebrating birthday and prepping for 29th trip to Frankfurt to play musikmesse and both jazzkeller's, jazzkeller Frankfurt and Jazzkeller-Hofheim with organ combo Jon Hammond Band - it was an amazing experience, met with Mr. William Baker Former Inmate / Author *see photos with Bill Baker "Old ex-con back at the Rock, telling prison stories" "He's been a car thief, a jailhouse rioter, an escape artist." Alcatraz 1259." That was his number on the Rock. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152676219332102&set=a.10152676219282102.1073741881.558692101&type=3&theater Ai Weiwei at Large #AiWeiWeiAlcatraz Ai Wei Wei at Large Exhibit on Alcatraz Island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_Island Alcatraz Island is located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California, United States.[2] Often referred to as "The Rock", the small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison (1868), and a federal prison from 1933 until 1963.[5] Beginning in November 1969, the island was occupied for more than 19 months by a group of aboriginal people from San Francisco who were part of a wave of Native activism across the nation with public protests through the 1970s. In 1972, Alcatraz became a national recreation area and received designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1986. http://jonhammondband.com/blog.html Returning 19th year Fr 17. April 2015 Musikmessesession mit Jon Hammond Jazzkeller Hofheim Posted on March 24, 2015 Eastside Sound Studios Sunday Session Posted on March 23, 2015 Jon Hammond Show MNN Ch. 1 Broadcast 03/28/2015 Funk Soul Blues & Soft News Posted on March 20, 2015 Public Access TV: Jon Hammond Show MNN Community Channel 1, Funk Soul Blues and Soft News Posted on March 18, 2015 Wie jedes Jahr zur Musikmesse die Warm Up Party im Jazzkeller Frankfurt mit der Jon Hammond Band 14. APRIL 2015 um 21 Uhr #frankfurt #jazz #live #music #musikmesse2015 Like every year at the Musikmesse the warm up party in the Jazzkeller Frankfurt Jon Hammond band APRIL 14, 2015 at 9: 00 #frankfurt #jazz #live #music #musikmesse2015 James Oscar Smith aka Jimmy Smith photos by Jon Hammond Taken in Long Beach, California Long Beach CA -- James Oscar Smith aka Jimmy Smith photos by Jon Hammond one month before he passed away, just after receiving the prestigious NEA Jazz Master Award. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Smith_(musician) James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith (December 8, 1925[1] or 1928[2] – February 8, 2005)[1][2] was an American jazz musician who achieved the rare distinction of releasing a series of instrumental jazz albums that often charted on Billboard. Smith helped popularize the Hammond B-3 electric organ, creating an indelible link between sixties soul and jazz improvisation. In 2005, Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that the United States bestows upon jazz musicians. Also known as The Incredible Jimmy Smith Born December 8, 1925 Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States Died February 8, 2005 (aged 79) Scottsdale, Arizona, United States Genres Hard bop Mainstream jazz Jazz-funk Jazz fusion Occupation(s) Musician Instruments Hammond B-3 electric organ Smith's birth year is of some confusion, with various sources citing either 1925 or 1928. Born James Oscar Smith in Norristown, Pennsylvania, at the age of six he joined his father doing a song-and-dance routine in clubs. He began teaching himself to play the piano. Community Access TV, MNN TV, Channel 1, #LewSoloff #Movie #Trumpet #HammondOrgan Al Jazzbo Collins, Jazz, Blues, Celebration, Memorial, Documentary, Musicians Union, Local 802