Jon Davis
Jonathan Harvey "Jon" Davis (* around 1965 in New York City ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , also keyboards , Chapman Stick , composition ) of modern jazz .
Live and act
Davis worked in the New York jazz scene from the mid-1980s; u. a. He played with Jaco Pastorius ( Standards Zone ), Phil Woods , Jon Burr , in the Joris Teepe Big Band, with İlhan Erşahin and with the singer Marcus Goldhaber ( Take Me Anywhere ). Under his own name he released the albums Beauty and the Blues (Venus Records, 2013, with Ed Howard , Tim Horner ) and Posi-Tone Records One Up Front (2013, with Joris Teepe, Shinnosuke Takahashi ), Changes Over Time ( 2015, with Ugonna Okegwo and Jochen Rückert ), Moving Right Along (2015, with Yasushi Nakamura , Shinnosuke Takahashi) and Happy Juice (2017, with Boris Kozlov , Mark Ferber ). Recordings were also made with the Bobby Shew / George Robert Quintet ( Live in Switzerland , 2002), Howard Leshaw Quartet ( Shadow Song , 2004) and the Jeff Silvertrust Quintet. Tom Lord records 54 recordings of Davis between 1986 and 2017.
In 2019/20 he is a member of the Claire Daly Quartet and leads a trio with Joseph Lepore (bass) and Jimmy Macbride (drums).
Discographic notes
- Brian Melvin, Jaco Pastorius, Rick Smith, Jon Davis, Paul Mousavi: Jazz Street (1988)
- The Brian Melvin Trio Featuring Jaco Pastorius & Jon Davis' Standards Zone (1990)
Web links
- Web presence
- Jon Davis at Allmusic (English)
- Jon Davis at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Jon Davis, Piano. Smalls, September 1, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ meeting
- ↑ meeting
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Davis, Jon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Davis, Jonathan Harvey (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (piano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |