No X-Cess Baggage Blues/Mercy! JON HAMMOND Combo 1989

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The Ultimate Soul-Blues-Funk perfomance by JON HAMMOND Combo All-Stars BERNARD PURDIE drums, ALEX FOSTER sax, CHUGGY CARTER percussion, BARRY FINNERTY guitar, and fearless Leader JON HAMMOND B3 Organ/Bass at legendary NY night spot MIKELL'S Aug. 28 1989 playing Jon's composition "No X-Cess Baggage Blues" segued spontaneously in to "Mercy Mercy Mercy"! This historic film documents the explosive force of the power house rhythm section of Purdie & Chuggy kicking the front line of Alex Foster (Saturday Night Live Band), Barry Finnerty (Crusaders, Joe Cocker, Miles Davis) & Jon Hammond, Host/Producer of NY late night TV show The Jon Hammond Show (23rd year now) and currently Hosting CBS Radio show "Jon Hammond's Afternoon Slide" heard M-F 3PM PST on KYCY/KYOU 1550 AM in San Francisco CA and streaming around the world. Jon's official site: http://www.HammondCast.com *Member American Federation of Musicians Union Local 802 & Local 6/ASCAP: http://www.ascap.com/audioportraits/hammond2006.html *Attention lovers of Soul Music! JH says: "The FINGERS...are the SINGERS!" c)2006 JON HAMMOND International, Inc. New York, NY USA

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