JON DAVIS

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Pianist, and composer Jon Davis has been performing and touring with many of the finest jazz musicians around the world for more than 25 years. He has appeared on over 50 recordings, and has contributed compositions on many of them. Although perhaps still most widely known for his association with the legendary bassist, Jaco Pastorius, Jon has shown a rare versatility ranging from solo, to Big Band, and everything in between.

Jon was born in N.Y., and started playing piano and guitar in his early teens. After a very brief stint with Lennie Tristano, Jon went to Boston to go to the New England Conservatory. Studies with Jaki Byard, Madam Chaloff and Ran Blake would help get him started, but he felt "on the job training" was more his calling, so after a year, he left NEC, and started gigging steadily around Boston.

Jon relocated to San Francisco in the early
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JON DAVIS How Insensitive And Other Ballads album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
How Insensitive And Other Ballads
Hard Bop 2010
JON DAVIS One Up Front album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
One Up Front
Hard Bop 2013
JON DAVIS Jon Davis Trio : Beauty And The Blues album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jon Davis Trio : Beauty And The Blues
Hard Bop 2013
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Moving Right Along
Hard Bop 2015
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Changes Over Time
Post Bop 2016
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Jazz Warriors
Post Bop 2016
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Happy Juice
Hard Bop 2017

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Live at the Bird's Eye
Hard Bop 2014

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