Decades of conversations reveal the full measure of John Hammond — the man who once had a young Jimi Hendrix as his sideman, and who loved doing it all his way. Don’s remembrance carries the weight of history, and the clarity of someone who truly understood the man behind the legend. “I’ve taken flak all my career about being the wrong color, the wrong this or the wrong that,” Hammond once told him. “But listen, I love to do what I do… This is my life."
