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Jon Gold

Born: September 22, 1958

Originally from Palo Alto, California, pianist and composer Jon Gold has had a life long interest in Brazilian and Latin jazz.

He's performed throughout northern California, including the Monterey Jazz Festival, and throughout Rio de Janeiro. Along the way he's recorded with such artists as Airto Moreira and bassist Harvie S.

Jon also has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California at Santa Cruz and gained noteriety as the first person to ever melt a diamond.

Things Are Looking Up

By Jon Gold

Label: Entropic Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: For Rudy Van Gelder; de_Facto; 750 Vallejo; Theme for Woody Shaw; Nitro; Carried by the Quietude; Theme for Gary Bartz; Tone Poem For Raul da Gama; Entropic Waltz; JG and_MZ Canja.

Anahí

By Jon Gold

Label: Entropic Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Guanabara Eyes; Squirrel Samba; Sumidouro; Ivaniando; The Broken Partido; Anahí; For Luiz; Old Story; Theme for MZ; The Lost Minuet; Big Friends; Hymn Noire; Bonus Track: Heptane;

Tribute To Rudy Van Gelder

May 1, 2026

Album: Things Are Looking Up
By Jon Gold
Label: Entropic Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 6:07

Take Five with Pianist Jon Gold

by AAJ Staff
May 18, 2026

Meet Jon Gold Jon's story begins in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jon's brother (Jay Gold) was an avid music fan who introduced Jon, as a child, to Delta blues, then r&b, and later jazz. Jon's brother Jay was a producer for Mushroom Records, the label for the pop group Heart. Jon started playing slide blues ...

Jon Gold: Things Are Looking Up

by Jack Bowers
May 8, 2026

On Things Are Looking Up, California-bred pianist and composer Jon Gold uses a dozen able musicians in groups of various sizes from duo to quintet to add color and spice to his generally harmonic and accessible post-bop themes. Four of these themes are tributes to those who have influenced Gold musically or personally, and ...

Eli Howell, Peter Erskine, Brian Lynch, Fuller Sound and more

by Benjamin Boddie
April 16, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Charles Ruggiero, Eli Howell, Peter Erskine, Isabella Isherwood, Pete Mills, Brian Lynch, Ben Flocks, Daphne Roubini & Black Gardenia, Fuller Sound, Mike Bruzzese, Russ Spiegel, Chris Aschman, Entre Amigos, The Sistering, Alexa Tarantino, Bria Skonberg, Monika Herzig, The BLCK Madonna, Arvind Ramdas, Stephen Philip Harvey, Dave Slonaker Big Band, Daggerboard, ...

Walter Smith III, Paul Keller Orchestra, Javon Jackson, Bria Skonberg and more

by Benjamin Boddie
April 9, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Walter Smith lll, Paul Keller Orchestra, Javon Jackson, Tierney Sutton & Tamir Hendelman, Jenny Klukken, Jon Gold, Bria Skonberg, Stacey Kent, Arvind Ramdas, Yelena Eckemoff, Julian Davis Reid, Sam Yahel, Jazzlab Orchestra, Lisanne Lyons, Nicole McCabe, Corcoran Holt, Jeremy Pelt, Aubrey Johnson, Steven Husted, NOLA Resistance Quintet, LehCats, Dave Slonaker ...

Guanabara Eyes

August 16, 2026

Album: Anahí
By Jon Gold
Label: Entropic Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 04:43

Chasing Echos

By Jon Gold

Label: Entropic
Released: 2025
Track listing: 1. Breaking the Ice (4:59)2. For Sergio Mendes (4:28)3. Fantasie (4:00)4. Pegasus (4:25)5. Nine for MZ6. An Eon of Ages (4:41)7. Chasing Echos (4:16)8. Tone Poem for the Americas9.Blues Pe de Serra (3:57)10. Athena’s Web (3:39)11. Friends United (5:11)