HammondCast: Jon Hammond Flashback NDR Interview Knut Benzer on Simon Phillips also Prague Demo and Hamburg Gigs

Jon Hammond Flashback NDR Interview Knut Benzer on Simon Phillips also Prague Demo and Hamburg Gigs *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Flashback Blog from Jon Hammond Film Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonsFlashbacksKNUTNDRSimonPhillipsPragueLiveRadioFSKHamburg Jon Hammond Flashback Reel with Drummer Simon Phillips Interview with Knut Benzner NDR Radio Hamburg, speaking about his CD "Another Lifetime" dedicated to Tony Williams. Jon at Hamburg Dammtor Gleis 4 cutting a spot in Hamburg while waiting for the ICE high speed train Hamburg Dammtor Bahnhof - Prague Czech Republic very first Muzika trade show, Jon giving his 'Seminare' entitled: "Classic Hammond Sound...In A Suitcase!™ — A gig in Skurillum on the Reeperbahn Spielbudenplatz 24-25 where Hausbar im Schmidt Theater is now. Here come the Polizei! Perfect timing because we just finished playing live on Radio FSK in Hamburg - the Polizei came in at the last hit responding to a sound complaint from an old lady next door - Uwe Petersen on drums, Lutz Büchner tenor sax, Jon at the organ - Jon's original composition "Pocket Funk" with Herbert Zorn / Groove City Records at the microphone in St. Pauli Hamburg http://www.HammondCast.com/ - Jon Hammond Band

on Hammond Flashbacks -- Drummer Simon Phillips interview with Knut Benzner NDR Radio speaking about his CD "Another Lifetime" dedicated to Tony Williams - video forthcoming soon! JH — with Simon Phillips.

Jon Hammond Band flashbacks -- Hamburg Dammtor Gleis 4 cutting a spot in Hamburg while waiting for the ICE high speed train — at Hamburg Dammtor station.

Jon Hammond Band Flashbacks -- Here come the Polizei! Perfect timing because we just finished playing live on Radio FSK in Hamburg - the Polizei came in at the last hit responding to a sound complaint from an old lady next door - Uwe Petersen on drums, Lutz Büchner tenor sax, Jon at the organ with Herbert Zorn / Groove City Records at the microphone in St. Pauli Hamburg - video clip forthcoming soon! JH

Jon Hammond Band flashbacks -- Prague Czech Republic very first Muzika trade show, Jon giving his 'Seminare' entitled: "Classic Hammond Sound...In A Suitcase!™ — in Prague, Czech Republic Youtube http://youtu.be/skT91BT8qnY Vimeo http://vimeo.com/83204666 Mourning Lutz Büchner

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jon-hammond/mourning-lutz-b%C3%BCchner/10156648708165287?pnref=story Folks, I am really in shock from hearing news of the unexpected and very sad death of my good friend Lutz Büchner! I really didn’t want to say it on the internet after receiving the horrible news in communications with our mutual good friend and fellow musician / bandmate Heinz Lichius. This is so hard to get my head around and accept it but I know it’s true that Lutz suffered a fatal heart attack while on tour in Tokyo Japan with his beloved NDR-bigband with Peter Erskine on the band - I can see Lutz’ smile and hear his voice and music in my mind like it was yesterday - and we spoke and played together so many times. So now I see the news releases are already out on the news FEEDS from the NDR, Hamburger Abendblatt etc. and a few too-early mentions on the Facebook, so I know it’s time to write a few words for those of you who might not know of Lutz Büchner, as follows: As Joe Gallardo the great trombonist and long-time colleague of Lutz’ said in email to me last night: “As you well know, Lutz was first of all a great human being and secondly, he was a masterful player. Lutz was my brother. We will all miss him.” - The very first time I met Lutz was in 1995 on a rainy night in Hamburg Eimsbüttel at the Thursday night weekly jazz session in Jazzclub Birdland - I had heard him the week before and pushed my Hammond organ on the wheels through the rain to the club and got there real early, Hr. Reichert the owner opened up the club and I was telling Mr. Reichert I came the week before but didn’t get to play so “early bird gets the worm...and maybe I’ll get to play with Lutz Büchner!” - well we did it and by good luck my friend Joris Dudli the great drummer was there - it was magic from the first hit. That’s where it started, I was living in Hamburg to play music and write tunes - like so many musicians following in the footsteps of The Beatles, by invitation of my sponsor Knut Benzner journalist moderator on the NDR. From then on together with main man Heinz Lichius drums who I had met just before when Heinz came over to meet me one afternoon - Heinz had recommended to check out Lutz, one of the finest rising musicians on the Hamburg scene. We had a lot of great times together on the bandstand and off from that time on - we played in Hamburg and his hometown of Bremen - turned out to be that Lutz was a real life jazz angel who saved my life at least twice, one time involving bringing me to the hospital / krankenhaus and translating to me what they were about to do to me - we escaped out the side door and the doctor came to our gig that night! I met Lutz’ Mom and Dad beautiful people when they came to hear us play in Bremen at Studio club April 7, 1998 - and most recently our last gigs together with my favorite musicians Michael Leuschner, (Heinz Lichius of course) “Fiete” Ernst-Friedrich Fiete Felsch NDR horn section brothers along with Joe Berger guitar, probably best gig of my life - Lutz was so happy to have found his love with his wife Bettina and he was always crazy about his son Asmus and his step daughters by Bettina, the happiest I have ever seen him, he glowed in the dark he had that much joy! -- Back in 2005 I had an idea, I said to my long-time girlfriend Jennifer: Lutz is one of the greatest saxophonists I ever heard, I want to feature him on a CD release, he could be making a great record every day! I couldn’t believe that he didn’t have any feature albums out at that point - so I discussed it with Knut Benzner and we all co-produced a recording session for this purpose in the famous Studio 1 at NDR, the NDR SESSIONS Projekt was born, with the addition of “Joe G” / Joe Gallardo on trombone and Heinz Lichius and myself, Rudolf Grosser at the controls big SSL console, we started playing in the morning and I played through the magic bass amp belonging to Lucas Lindholm - the boys took one long coffee break and other than that we recorded tunes all day long - I am so grateful that I’ll always have this recording date together with Lutz, of course later on Lutz came out with more records - but this one for me is my special keepsake that went down with the blessings of NDR with the help of Knut Benzner and Axel Dürr. So many stories I can tell you, but most importantly everybody loved Lutz, I know there are a lot of tears flowing now around Hamburg and Bremen, my heart goes out to Lutz’ Family, Friends and Musicians music brothers and sisters! The 2nd to the last time we played together, I hadn’t seen Lutz for a while and he told me about a real miracle of survival when he was driving on the autobahn with Bettina and the kinder all his happy Family in the car, I think there was ice on the road - a car slammed in to the back of his car demolishing the car, but Lutz’ horns were in the trunk - they all got crushed but it saved his Family! They were all shaken up but OK - the lucky star was shining over them, and even though Lutz is not with us physically anymore, his lucky star will always be shining - he was competely dedicated to the NDR-bigband family of musicians and his own Family - always a huge inspiration to me as a person and master musician, rest in peace my very special good friend Lutz Büchner - my deepest and most sincere condolences go out to Lutz’ Mom and Dad and Bettina and his son Asmus and step children by Bettina - all the folks who know and love Lutz, sincerely, Jon Hammond Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondShowFor115FromNAMMAndFrankfurtMusikmesse Youtube https://youtu.be/BP0JcvVhiDs Vimeo https://vimeo.com/189545672 Jon Hammond Show for 11 05 from NAMM and Frankfurt musikmesse

Segment number one: Jon Hammond Funk Unit https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2017/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit NAMM CenterStage presented by Pioneer DJ "Lydia's Tune" ©JON HAMMOND International ASCAP Joe Berger: Guitar/Guitarist Chuggy Leslie J. Carter: Percussion Dom Famularo: Drums/Drummer Alex Budman: Tenor Saxophone/Saxophonist Koei Tanaka: Harmonica Jon Hammond: Organ / Leader Note, next NAMM Showcase coming January 20, 2017 at 4PM Jon Hammond Funk Unit Segment number 2: Shooting the Bridges in Full High Definition with Jon Hammond https://www.facebook.com/hammondcast/videos/10153816720072102/ - San Francisco CA - from HammondCast radio program, Jon's camera voice and music Segment number 3: Late Rent the Jon Hammond Show Theme Song live in jazzkeller Frankfurt, Jon's annual 30th year musikmesse Warm Up Party - Jon Hammond Band: "Helloooo New York!" from audience! Jon Hammond's annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in the world famous jazzkeller Frankfurt - LATE RENT Jon Hammond Theme Song - Jon Hammond Band: Peter Klohmann tenor, Giovanni Totò Gulino drums, Joe Berger guitar, Jon Hammond organ - Video: Tino Pavlis http://www.HammondCast.com Jon Hammond Funk Unit CenterStage Presented by Pioneer DJ @NAMM Friday, January 20, 2017 at 4 PM - 4:40 PM https://www.facebook.com/events/970048696439945/ The NAMM Show Anaheim, California NAMM LINK https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2017/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit Artist Info Jon Hammond Organ+bass / Organist Leader Koei Tanaka Harmonica / Master Chromatic Harmonica Player Joe Berger Guitar / more band members tba - Photos by Lawrence Gay co-producer West Coast Live Radio Program ©JHINTL

Genre: Funky Jazz and Blues Hometown: New York City FB https://www.facebook.com/jonhammondband/posts/ Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/BehindTheBeatBTBASCAPAudioPortraitLateRentJonHammondShow Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondSuzukiWorldHeadquartersInHouseConcertJonHammondPt3of3 Looking forward to playing with my good friend again, Koei Tanaka | Chromatic Harmonica & Blues Harp master! *Clip: Suzuki Headquarters and factory concert special for President Founder Manji Suzuki with introduction by Waichiro 'Tachi' Tachikawa, Jon Hammond at the new B3mk2 organ with Koei Tanaka chromatic harmonica http://www.tanakakoei.com/?p=2502 11月のスケジュール Filed under: ライブ情報 — koei @ 23:28:47 詳細は「ライブ・セミナー情報」まで。みなさまのご来場お待ちしております！ 11月 3日 (木・祝) 新宿「Hammond orgasm」Jon HammondセッションアメリカからJon Hammondが楽器フェアで来日するので、前日にセッションします♫ 11月 4日 (金)〜6日（日）東京ビッグサイト「楽器フェア」スズキブースにてデモ演奏各日、ハモンドオルガンの河合代介さんとJon Hammondとそれぞれデュオで演奏します♫ 11月 11日 (金) 沼袋「Organ Jazz 倶楽部」河合代介（ハモンドオルガン）Duo 楽器フェアでも一緒だった河合さんとデュオでライブします♫ コメントはまだありません。この投稿へのコメントの RSS フィード。 TrackBack URL Facebook video https://www.facebook.com/hammondcast/videos/10153860489207102/

Suzuki Headquarters and factory concert special for President Founder Manji Suzuki with introduction by Waichiro 'Tachi' Tachikawa, Jon Hammond at the new B3mk2 organ with Koei Tanaka chromatic harmonica Part 3 of 3 "Mercy Mercy" in Hamamatsu Japan. Special Thanks Mr. H. Ono, Mr. M. Terada, Mr. S. Ohtaka, Mr. Y. Beniya, Tachi Tachikawa, President M. Suzuki and entire Suzuki Musical Instruments Team ©JHINTL Suzuki Musical Instruments Hamamatsu partial group shot after Koei and Jon played

Jon Hammond All Star band at the musikmesse 2017 Center Stage Wednesday April 5 at 12 Noon Event Jon Hammond Band FB https://www.facebook.com/events/1669397893117295/ For Immediate Release: Jon Hammond All Star band at the musikmesse 2017 Center Stage Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 12 PM - 1 PM UTC+02 musikmesse Prolight + Sound Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt, Germany Jon Hammond All Star band at the musikmesse 2017 Center Stage Jon and Joe Berger will be celebrating 31st year playing the big Frankfurt musikmesse with some very special all star musicians joining the core Jon Hammond consisting of Giovanni Totò Gulino d., Peter Klohmann t.s., Joe Berger g., Jon Hammond o+b. - the guest musicians will be tba closer to the event date - rain or shine! "Musikmesse in Frankfurt is the international trade fair for musical instruments, sheet music, music production and marketing. Musikmesse 2017 5 to 8 April 2017 Wednesday to Saturday, 10 to 18 hrs Western section of Messe Frankfurt Exhibition Center Prolight + Sound: 4 to 7 April 2017"

clock Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 12 PM - 1 PM UTC+02 pin Show Map musikmesse Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt, Germany Tickets Available musik.messefrankfurt.com Jon Hammond and Wolfgang Lücke Director Special Events & Entertainment musikmesse / Prolight + Sound

Foto Credit: Lawrence Gay co-producer West Coast Live Radio Program https://www.facebook.com/events/1669397893117295/

Jon Hammond flanked by Johannes Weber and Christopher Sparkes - Messe Frankfurt Projekt Team - Johannes and Christopher are Referent Marketingkommunikation Media Relations Entertainment, Media & Creative Industries for Musikmesse & ProLight + Sound

Jon Hammond and Michael Biwer -Group Show Director bei Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH Frankfurt Am Main

Ilona Schlesinger: "Tickets for Musikmesse 2017 now on sale Cheaper admission on Friday afternoon and all day Saturday Up to 25 percent discount for online ticket purchases in advance The International Trade Fair for Musical Instruments, Sheet Music, Music Production and Music Business Connections will provide a comprehensive overview of the latest products on the musical instrument market coupled with an interesting complementary programme of events. Tickets are now available via the Musikmesse website. Visitors who buy their admission ticket online profit from a significant discount over the price on arrival at the fair. Individual arrangements for different communities With over 1,000 events in the halls and on the outdoor exhibition area, Musikmesse will reach visitors of all kinds between the Wednesday and Saturday. Retailers and distributors from home and abroad can learn more about the latest trends in seminars at the Business Academy inspired by SOMM. Top speakers from the worlds of marketing, business and law will put forward models designed to meet challenges in the musical-instrument market. Product courses oriented towards the needs of the musical-instrument trade will be held daily at the Drum Academy and the Guitar Academy. Furthermore, professionals from the sector can take part in the matchmaking programme, which brings retailers and exhibitors together on the basis of their specific interests. Additionally, Musikmesse offers event space for the various musical communities, which include the Drums Brandworld and the Guitar Brandworld, which combine product demonstrations, workshops and entertainment in innovative special areas. Lectures on keyboard instruments, hardware and software will be given in the Keys + Recording Lounge while, for lovers of acoustic music and music for wind instruments, the Acoustic Stage and the Wood & Brass Stage provide a genre-specific programme. But that is not all: throughout the fair, there will be concerts by internationally renowned artists on the Centre Stage. And, to make visiting the fair even more attractive for both experienced musicians and people just starting to make music, Messe Frankfurt is offering tickets at lower prices for the Saturday, as well as a much reduced ‘Friday Afternoon Ticket’ valid from 14.00 hrs on the Friday. Following the successful première of the Musikmesse Festival in 2016, the fair will once again be accompanied by a variety of musical highlights in clubs, bars and venues throughout the city. Musikmesse visitors will be given a Musikmesse Festival wrist band with which they can attend concerts at reduced prices or even free of charge. Musikmesse ticket prices Day ticket, Wednesday to Friday (5 to 7 April) € 30.00 in advance, online € 40.00 on arrival Day ticket for Saturday (8 April) € 20.00 in advance, online € 20.00 on arrival Friday Afternoon Ticket (7 April, from 14.00 hrs) € 8.00, on arrival only Group Day Ticket (min. 25 visitors) € 16.00 in advance, online € 16.00 on arrival Additionally, there will be special offers for children up to 14 years of age and families on the Saturday of the fair. Tickets purchased in advance entitle the holder to use local public-transport services operated by the RMV public-transport authority in Frankfurt and the region free of charge. The Online Ticket Shop can be found at www.musikmesse.com/online-ticket Background information on Messe Frankfurt Messe Frankfurt is one of the world’s leading trade fair organisers, generating over €640 million* in sales and employing 2,364* people. The Messe Frankfurt Group has a global network of 30 subsidiaries and 55 international sales partners, allowing it to serve its customers on location in 175 countries. Messe Frankfurt events take place at approx. 50 locations around the globe. In 2016, a total of 138* trade fairs were held under the Messe Frankfurt umbrella, of which more than half took place outside Germany. Comprising an area of 592,127 square metres, Messe Frankfurt’s exhibition grounds are home to ten exhibition halls. The company also operates two congress centres. The historic Festhalle, one of the most popular venues in Germany, plays host to events of all kinds. Messe Frankfurt is publicly owned, with the City of Frankfurt holding 60 percent and the State of Hesse 40 percent. * preliminary figures for 2016 <----------- End of press information -------------> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, The attached image is free for publication providing the indication of source (see file name). Yours Sincerely, Press Team Musikmesse Johannes Weber Referent Marketingkommunikation Media Relations Entertainment, Media & Creative Industries Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1 60327 Frankfurt am Main" 2017 ProLight + Sound and Musikmesse Kicking Off with Jon Hammond Next April, LINK: http://blog.sfgate.com/jon-hammond/2016/10/26/2017-prolight-sound-and-musikmesse-kicking-off-with-jon-hammond-next-april/