Guitarist Ross Hammond has been playing music on large stages

and in small corners on the West Coast and beyond for the past decade. 

He currently hosts “Nebraska Mondays,” a weekly improvised

music series at Luna’s Cafe in Sacramento.  To check out the series

go to www.nebraskamondays.blogspot.com.

He programs the annual “In The Flow Festival” in Sacramento which

he founded with Byron Blackburn in 2008. For information

go to www.intheflowsacramento.com.  

Since 1999, Ross has been releasing music on Prescott Recordings.

He has received the Sacramento News and Review music award for

Best Jazz Musician in 2008, 2009 and 1999

(w/ Chili Palmer Project) and received a Critic’s Choice award

for Special Achievement in 2007.

Recent projects include:

-Ross Hammond Quartet with Vinny Golia, Alex Cline and Steuart Liebig

-Electropoetic Coffee, with poet and vocalist NSAA.

-Lovely Builders, a guitar and drum duo with Scott Amendola

-V Neck, a duo with drummer Tom Monson

He has collaborated with Erik Kleven, Phillip Greenlief, Kevin Seconds,

Vinny Golia, Alex Cine, Amy Reed, Steve Adams, Scott Amendola,

Josh Fernandez, Roscoe Mitchell, GE Stinson, Alan Cook, Oliver Lake,

Tony Passarell, David Boyce, Sameer Gupta, Rick Lotter, Daryl Shawn,

Lee Bob Watson, Brian Ballentine, Wes Steed, Christian Kiefer, Darren

Johnston and Devin Hoff, Kevin Corcoran, Lucio Menegon, John Hanes,

Byron Blackburn, Lisa Mezzacappa and many, many others...

photo by Louise Mitchell

Ross Hammond Quartet photo by Mindy Giles

Electropoetic Coffee photo by Katie Johnson

Ross Hammond and Shawn Hale photo by Tommy Van Wormer