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Jon Dalton

Born: March 12, 1962

I first picked up a guitar when I was about seven years old. Apparently my first guitar teacher thought it was all somekind of joke as I was really too small to get my arms around even a child size guitar.

The lessons didn’t last. Maybe I wasn’t getting much satisfaction from playing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”?

Flash forward a few years and I’m in my early teens playing (quite illegally but nobody really cared so much about child labour back in the 1970s) in a rock and roll band in the various bars and clubs in the city centre.

We were lucky to have BBC television and especially BBC2 which had a strong focus on the arts. There was a show featuring the Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson where he would play jazz and feature a variety of guests. One night his guest was the solo jazz guitar wizard Joe Pass. I remembered watching, jaw open to the floor, as he performed stunning versions of tunes I remembered hearing my mother singing as she drove along in her car.

Carousel

By Jon Dalton

Label: ODAP Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Spaceship Orion; The Carousel; Smile of the Beyond; Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; Twice Removed; Song for Lynn; It Got Stuck; Have you Met Miss Jones?; Out of the River.

Jon Dalton: Carousel

by Glenn Astarita
November 18, 2024

Jon Dalton, a Los Angeles-based guitarist with roots in the UK and Native American descent, brings an intriguing musical background to Carousel. Having toured with hard rock and heavy metal bands among other genres, Dalton sharpened his jazz chops along the way, blending that grit with the fluidity of jazz. The result is a collection of ...

Award-Winning Jazz Doc Jazz Nights: A Confidential Journey Looking For Community Support To Release Worldwide

November 16, 2018

Jazz Nights: A Confidential Journey hopes to raise $33,685 to release this award-winning music doc to the world via Streaming. Jazz Nights: A Confidential Journey has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Seed & Spark to raise the funds needed to attain the music, vintage stills and archival footage rights needed to release JAZZ NIGHTS worldwide via ...

Warm Ghosts (in a) Cold World

By Jon Dalton

Label: ODAP Music
Released: 2009

The Gift

By Jon Dalton

Label: ODAP Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Champosium; The Gift; Napoli; You Can't Do That!; Master of Complications; The Dark Man; Webs; One Level Up!; Westory; A Gift Returned

Jon Dalton: The Gift

by Brian Soergel
April 12, 2004

Jon Dalton is a Londoner now living in Southern California. Like ex-pat Chris Standring, whom he most compares to musically, Dalton plays mostly electric guitar, but also dabbles in acoustic and computerized riffs on The Gift, a seasoned smooth jazz effort that shows maturity and a keen eye for the genre. Like Standring, Pat Metheny and ...