Jon Mayer

Jon Mayer, a talented bop pianist, has already established an extended and colorful profession while remaining greatly underrated. He previously traditional piano lessons and went to the SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL of Music and Artwork as well as the Manhattan College of Music. Mayer found early experience using Pete LaRoca and Ray Draper and jamming in NY clubs. He caused the Kenny Dorham big music group and Tony Scott’s Quartet (where he changed Bill Evans), and in addition documented with Jackie McLean (1957’s Unusual Blues) and John Coltrane (I Speak to the Trees and shrubs). Mayer proved helpful in Paris with Chet Baker and in the 1960s and ’70s gigged using the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Kai Winding, Sarah Vaughan, as well as the Manhattan Transfer, while also carrying out session function in the studios. Furthermore, he had written pop songs documented by Les McCann, Nancy Wilson, Vicki Carr, and Gladys Knight, amongst others. Settling within the Los Angeles region within the 1980s, Mayer caused Freddie Hubbard, McCann, and his very own groupings. Jon Mayer’s initial possibility to record being a head was a day for Pullen in 1995; he offers since utilized Ernie Watts sometimes in his quartet.