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  • Louie Bellson Interview With Jon Hammond Hammond Cast
    Publication date 2023-03-11
    Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalCreative Commons Licensebyncnd
    Topics Louie Bellson, Jazz Drummer, Band Leader, Double Bass Drums, Johnny Hodges, Pearl Bailey, Educator, HammondCast, CBS Radio, KYOU, KYCY, Jon Hammond
    Language English
    Louie Bellson Interview With Jon Hammond HammondCast on CBS KYOU / KYCY Radio - August 2003, he appeared at Jazz Club Nouveau in San Francisco with tenor saxophonist Don Menza -
    Louie Bellson's Wiki:
    Birth name Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni
    Born July 6, 1924
    Rock Falls, Illinois
    Died February 14, 2009 (aged 84)
    Los Angeles, California
    Genres Jazz, big band, swing
    Occupation(s) Musician, composer, arranger, bandleader
    Instrument(s) Drums
    Years active 1931–2009
    Labels Roulette, Concord, Pablo, Musicmasters
    Louie Bellson (born Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, July 6, 1924 – February 14, 2009), often seen in sources as Louis Bellson, although he himself preferred the spelling Louie, was an American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the use of two bass drums.[1]
    Bellson performed in most of the major capitals around the world. Bellson and his wife, actress and singer Pearl Bailey[2] (married from 1952 until Bailey's death in 1990), had the second highest number of appearances at the White House (only Bob Hope had more).
    Bellson was a vice president at Remo, a drum company.[3] He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1985
    Bellson was born in Rock Falls, Illinois, in 1924, where his father owned a music store. He started playing drums at three years of age. While still a young child, Bellson's father moved the family and music store to Moline, Illinois.[5] At 15, he pioneered using two bass drums at the same time, a technique he invented in his high school art class.[6] At age 17, he triumphed over 40,000 drummers to win the Slingerland National Gene Krupa contest.[7]
    After graduating from Moline High School in 1942, he worked with big bands throughout the 1940s, with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Duke Ellington. In 1952, he married jazz singer Pearl Bailey. During the 1950s, he played with the Dorsey Brothers, Jazz at the Philharmonic, acted as Bailey's music director, and recorded as a leader for Norgran Records and Verve Records.[8]
    Over the years, his sidemen included Ray Brown, Pete and Conte Candoli, Chuck Findley, John Heard, Roger Ingram, Don Menza, Blue Mitchell, Larry Novak, Nat Pierce, Frank Rosolino, Bobby Shew, Clark Terry, and Snooky Young.
    In an interview in 2005 with Jazz Connection magazine, he cited as influences Jo Jones, Sid Catlett, and Chick Webb. "I have to give just dues to two guys who really got me off on the drums – Big Sid Catlett and Jo Jones. They were my influences. All three of us realized what Jo Jones did and it influenced a lot of us. We all three looked to Jo as the 'Papa' who really did it. Gene helped bring the drums to the foreground as a solo instrument. Buddy was a great natural player. But we also have to look back at Chick Webb's contributions, too."[9]
    During the 1960s, he returned to Ellington's orchestra for Emancipation Proclamation Centennial stage production, My People in and for A Concert of Sacred Music, which is sometimes called The First Sacred Concert. Ellington called these concerts "the most important thing I have ever done."[10]
    Bellson's album The Sacred Music of Louie Bellson and the Jazz Ballet appeared in 2006. In May 2009, Francine Bellson told The Jazz Joy and Roy syndicated radio show, "I like to call (Sacred) 'how the Master used two maestros,'" adding, "When (Ellington) did his sacred concert back in 1965 with Louie on drums, he told Louie that the sacred concerts were based on 'in-the-beginning,' the first three words of the bible." She recalled how Ellington explained to Louie that "in the beginning there was lightning and thunder and t
    9 min
  • Earl Watkins Interview With Jon Hammond HammondCast
    Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalCreative Commons Licensebyncnd
    Topics Earl Watkins, Jazz Drummer, Local 6 Musicians Union, San Francisco Jazz, Oral History, Earl Fatha Hines, Mugsy Spanier, Horace Heidt, Jon Hammond, Jazz combo
    Language English
    Earl Watkins Jr. Interview with Jon Hammond HammondCast - longtime jazz drummer extraordinaire born in San Francisco CA 1920 - elected board of directors Local 6 Musicians Union from 1946 until his death July 1, 2007. "segregation"
    Earl breaks down the entire history of Jazz in San Francisco and his touring with Earl Fatha Hines in this interview with Jon Hammond for Jon's radio program HammondCast on KYOU / KYCY - Earl's Wiki:
    Earl Thomas Watkins, Jr. (January 29, 1920 in San Francisco – July 1, 2007 in San Francisco) was an American jazz drummer.
    Watkins was a percussionist in a United States Navy band during World War II, and returned to San Francisco after the war. He played with Wilbert Baranco in 1946 and did extensive work as a sideman and session musician in the 1950s, including with Kid Ory, Flip Phillips, Muggsy Spanier, and Bob Scobey. He joined Earl Hines's ensemble in San Francisco, touring and recording with him until 1961.
    Addeddate 2023-03-11 15:38:42
    Identifier earl-watkins-interview-with-jon-hammond-hammond-cast


    51 min
  • Pocket Funk Hammond Report!

    Pocket Funk Reunion NAMM Show Jon Hammond Funk Unit Kickoff Concert - happy Thursday folks!

    Music and Stories from Jon Hammond post NAMM Show, photos by the master photographer Lawrence Gay, it was great to see everybody who made it to Reunion NAMM, over 40,000 people attended and we got to kick off things first day 10AM on the big
    ADJ Lighting Arena Plaza Stage - Musicians: Chuggy Carter, Joe Berger, Ronnie Smith and yours truly Jon Hammond at the Sk1 Hammond Organ dialed in through the awesome Avante Audio system, piped all the way back on the other side of Anaheim Convention Center as the people were coming in - thanks 'Stage Dad' Mark Magill, San Diego Event Productions- Akroz Professional LLC Team - for those who didn't make it, here's a nice taste for ya' - a lot of moving parts in this piece! - Jon Hammond -
    Jon Hammond Band

    #namm

    #AUDIO

    #AKROZ

    #nammshow
    #avanteaudio
    #anaheim
    #funk
    #photography
    #electricguitar
    #rhythmsection
    #hammondorgan
    #reunion

    10 min
  • Party Barge Jon Hammond Trio With 2 Sons Of Champlin
    #WATCHMOVIE HERE: Party Barge Jon Hammond Trio With 2 Sons Of Champlin 

    Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/party-barge-jon-hammond-trio-with-2-sons-of-champlin 

    Youtube https://youtu.be/GinM_PQOknQ 

    FB https://www.facebook.com/558692101/videos/519052113740586/ 

    Instagram Reel https://www.instagram.com/p/CpapZcRMzHm/ #Instagram #reel 
    Publication date 2023-03-05Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalTopics 
    6 min
  • Jon Hammond Show 03 11 2023

    Publication date 2023-03-04Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Topics Music, Travel, NAMM Show, Jon Hammond Show, Public Access Television, Photography, Videography, Travel, Music Stories, Hammond Organ, Accordion, Fisarmonica, Manhattan Neighborhood NetworkLanguage English

    Jon Hammond Show 03 11 2023

    Jon Hammond Funk Unit NAMM Showcase concert with photographs by Lawrence Gay master photographer

    28 minute Public Access Television show 40th year, this episode

    Jon Hammond Band in concert in Anaheim Convention Center all original Jon Hammond compositions - as seen on Manhattan Neighborhood Network

    MNN Channel 1, air time 01:30 AM

    Swinging Funky Jazz and Blues

    https://www.hammondcast.com/

    Episode Description: Music, Travel and Soft News

    Addeddate 2023-03-04 10:30:44Color colorIdentifier jon-hammond-show-03-11-2023

    29 min
  • Jon Hammond Show 03 04 2023

    Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalTopics Music, Travel, Soft News, Jon Hammond Show, Public Access Television, Photography, Videography, Travel, Music Stories, Hammond Organ, Accordion, Fisarmonica, Manhattan Neighborhood NetworkLanguage English

    Jon Hammond Show 03 04 2023

    28 minute Public Access Television show 40th year, this episode

    Jon Hammond Band in concert in Frankfurt Germany, all original Jon Hammond compositions - as seen on Manhattan Neighborhood Network

    MNN Channel 1, air time 01:30 AM

    Swinging Funky Jazz and Blues

    https://www.hammondcast.com/

    Episode Description: Music, Travel and Soft News

    Addeddate 2023-02-28 19:07:08Identifier jon-hammond-show-03-04-2023

    29 min
  • Girl Talk From My 1959 B3 Sending Out To Kenny
    #WATCHMOVIE HERE: Girl Talk From My 1959 B3 Sending Out To Kenny 

    Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/girl-talk-from-my-1959-b-3-sending-out-to-kenny 

    Youtube https://youtu.be/T7KweKtSPqY 

    FB https://www.facebook.com/558692101/videos/1830612183978426/ 

    Girl Talk From My 1959 B 3 Sending Out To Kennyby Jon Hammond Publication
    3 min
  • HOW TO RECORD Live Session with Nakamichi 550 Jon Hammond Hammond Report

    *NOTE: I bought my Nakamichi 550 in 1976 from Harvey Electronics on 45th Street. I went there with Barry Finnerty he bought one too but his is long gone. We paid $550 bucks cash for each unit. They didn't call it Nakamichi 550 for nothing - that was the price in 1976 dollars. I still record on my NAK today --

    Pressing The Red Button
    https://hammondcast.livejournal.com/tag/cable%20tv%20show
    I'm pressing the Red Record button on my Nakamichi 550, connected to 3 Sennheiser microphones - Left Right and "Blend" channels - the Nak is sitting on top of my BIll Beer Keyboard Products Leslie Speaker connected to my 1959 Hammond B3 organ in The Ellington Room session - Jon Hammond - B3 organ
    Joe Berger electric guitar

    Chuggy Carter congas & percussion

    Ray Grappone drums

    Todd Anderson tenor saxophone Selmer MK VI

    #Nakamichi
    #nakamichi550
    #redrecordbutton
    #recording
    #sennheiser
    #lesliespeaker
    #ellingtonroom 

    #electronics

    #cassette

    Jon Hammond Band

    10 min
  • JON

    Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalTopics JON, Cornell Dupree, Blues, Mikell's, Hammond Report, Hammond Organ, Organ Combo, Photography, Jon HammondLanguage English

    JON 

    .mov  

    #HammondReport
    #mov 
    #music

    #JON 

    #cornelldupree
    Jon Hammond

    Addeddate 2023-02-15 06:55:57Identifier jon_20230215

    4 min
  • Jon Hammond Show 02 18 2023

    Topics Public Access Television, Swinging, Funky, Jazz, Blues, News, Original Music, Jon Hammond Show, Organist, Frankfurt, Manhattan Neighborhood NetworkLanguage English

    Jon Hammond Show 02 18 2023

    28 minute Public Access Television show 40th year, this episode

    Jon Hammond Band in concert in Frankfurt Germany, all original Jon Hammond compositions - as seen on Manhattan Neighborhood Network

    MNN Channel 1, air time 01:30 AM

    Swinging Funky Jazz and Blues

    https://www.hammondcast.com/

    Episode Description: Music, Travel and Soft News

    Addeddate 2023-02-13 05:21:54Identifier jon-hammond-show-02-18-2023 

    Publication date 2023-02-12Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

    29 min

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Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond - long-time host producer of cable access TV show Jon Hammond Show in New York.