Summary: *LISTEN TO THE AUDIO HERE: HammondCast 8 Jon's archive http://kyouradio.org/music-15.html "Head Phone" with Marc Baum on tenor sax, recorded at Victor Owens' DIGISONIC STUDIOS in Berkeley California, "Canonball '99...one more time!" from "Hammond's Bolero" album with introduction by Corey James of Red Jazz on KYOU Radio San Francisco. HammondCast 8 goes from Moscow Russia to Harlem with special guests Igor Butman (sax), Eduard Zizak (drums) Jon Hammond (organ) live at Le Club in Moscow Russia. *Photo in Showmans Lounge circa 1990, Jon Hammond at the B3 organ with Cindy Blackman (now Cindy Blackman Santana) Wallace Roney, Gary Bartz, Charlie Epps In Harlem at Showmans Lounge the legendary organ lounge on 125th St. with Cindy Blackman (drums, Wallace Roney (trumpet), Gary Bartz (sax), Charlie Epps (guitar) & Percy France announcing. The mystery continues...who is the 'child' who's not a child anymore? I checked with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and he thought it was Sylvia Beach Whitman daughter of the late great George Whitman and now manager of Shakespeare and Company shop in St. Michel Paris - but the folks at Shakespeare and Company say no that's not Sylvia - one of my best photos! I shot it with my (then new) Nikon F3 with motor, my first trip to Europe - Jon Hammond *anybody who knows or knows who the (then) child is give me a shout - JH ©JON HAMMOND International *Note: George Whitman was the founder of Shakespeare and Company book shop at Ground Zero Paris across the street from the famous Notre Dame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_WhitmanGeorge Whitman (December 12, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was the proprietor of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, which continues to be a popular tourist attraction.[1][2] He was a contemporary of such Beat poets as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Whitman was born in East Orange, New Jersey, United States, and while he was still an infant the family moved to Salem, Massachusetts.[3][4] In 2006 Whitman was awarded the "Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" medal by the French government for his contribution to the arts over the previous fifty years. Born December 12, 1913 East Orange, New Jersey, United States Died December 14, 2011 (aged 98) Paris, France Occupation Proprietor Children Sylvia Beach Whitman Whitman founded his bookstore in 1951 and named it Le Mistral, then later named it after Sylvia Beach's earlier Paris bookstore "Shakespeare and Company".[6] His shop, located at 37 rue de la Bûcherie in Paris, was opened in August 1951 (two years before a sister bookshop City Lights was opened in San Francisco by Lawrence Ferlinghetti) by George Whitman with an inheritance from his aunt. He called the shop "Le Mistral" after his first French girlfriend. From the very first night he allowed travellers, young writers, poets and artists to lodge in exchange for a hand in cleaning the shop, building shelves and selling books. Sylvia Beach, whose famous shop was on 12, rue de l'Odéon, was still in Paris and came to Le Mistral to see the writers of the new generation, whom Anaïs Nin called Xerox artists,[citation needed] read aloud their new work. Whitman modeled his shop after Sylvia Beach's and, in 1958 while dining with George, she publicly announced that she was handing the name to him for his bookshop.[7] As it was the only free English-language lending library in Paris, the Beats who arrived at the Beat Hotel on rue Git-le-Coeur quickly found their way to the small bookshop and made a place for themselves there. In 1962, Sylvia Beach died, willing to Whitman a good deal of her private books and the rights to the name Shakespeare and Company. In 1964, Le Mistral was renamed Shakespeare and Company. From 1978-1981, a group of American and Canadian expatriates ran a literary journal out of the upstairs library, called Paris Voices. The editor-in-chief was Kenneth R. Timmerman and the editorial team included Canadian Antanas Sileika among others. Timmerman went on to bec
