Jon Jang

A co-founder from the Asian Improv Information label, jazz pianist, composer and bandleader Jon Jang has helped revitalize the jazz music picture in San Francisco’s Bay Region since the later ’80s. The L.A.-blessed musician was raised in Palo Alto, CA and didn’t begin learning the piano until he was 19, after that analyzed piano performance on the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he received his degree in 1978. Jang provides led groupings including a sextet (Two Bouquets on the Stem, 1996), an octet (The Immigrant Collection #1 1, 1997) as well as the Skillet Asian Arkestra, which includes two albums from the first ’90s, including Tiananmen!. Every one of the information by these groupings came out for the Italian label Spirit Take note, but Jang in addition has documented for the RPM label in the first ’80s and his very own Asian Improv Information (Atmosphere). Atmosphere was co-founded by Chinese-American Jang and Francis Wong in 1987. Furthermore to releasing many important functions by Asian American jazz music artists, the label and its own founders may also be very mixed up in Asian American community from the Bay Region. His bands have got included such acclaimed music artists as Adam Newton, David Murray, Utmost Roach and Chen Jiebing, and also have made an appearance at jazz celebrations in THE UNITED STATES, European countries and South Africa. He in addition has performed using the LA Philharmonic SONGS Ensemble as well as the Kronos Quartet. Being a composer, Jon Jang continues to be commissioned by Kronos Quartet, the NEA, Cal Shows, Rockefeller Foundation and much more. He in addition has composed ratings for movie theater and film, like the 1994 dramatic version of Maxine Hong Kingston’s THE GIRL Warrior by Deborah Ragin as well as the past due ’90s street documentary by Renee Tajima, My America… or Honk IF YOU VALUE Buddha. Music by Jang in addition has followed the Pearl Ubungen Dancers and efficiency artists such as for example Kelvin Han Yee and David Mura. Jon Jang may be the receiver of many ASCAP awards and it has offered on sections for Arts International as well as the NEA, as creative advisor for ethnic series, so when going to lecturer at UCal-Irvine and Berkeley.