Results for "Jon Mayer"

Jon Mayer

by AAJ Staff
June 8, 2004

By Ken Franckling After at least 13 years away from music entirely, and another 13 years rebuilding his life - and his chops - Jon Mayer is ready to take on the challenges of his hometown. “My life has taken a few twists and turns. This is my first legitimate jazz appearance [in ...

Jon Mayer: The Classics

by J. Robert Bragonier
February 25, 2004

Although Jon Mayer got his start in New York in the “glory years” of jazz, he is only now just coming into his own as a jazz pianist of note. Born in 1938, Mayer was raised in Washington Heights, and after graduating from the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan in the mid- to ...

Full Circle

By Jon Mayer

Label: Reservoir Music
Released: 2002
Track listing: Round Up The Usual Suspects; Night And Day; Day Dream; For All We Know; From Now On; Full Circle; Stolen Moments; Falling In Love With Love; Lament; I Should Care. (Total Time: 73:53).

Jon Mayer: Full Circle

by C. Michael Bailey
May 9, 2002

Trio Rioï Veteran New York musician Jon Mayer debuts on Reservoir Records with a balmy trio set that takes full advantage of Mr. Mayer's experience as a hard bop pianist. Mr. Mayer's credentials are impressive. In the early to mid 1950s, Mayer performed with Pete LaRoca and Ray Draper before moving on to Kenny Dorman's big ...

Rip Van Winkle

By Jon Mayer

Label: Blue Moon
Released: 2000
Track listing:

On Green Dolphin Street, Shari's Bolero, Tragic Magic, Embraceable You, Rip Van Winkle, Stella By Starlight, If You Could See Me Now, Red Top, The Theme

Jon Mayer: Rip Van Winkle

by AAJ Staff
September 1, 2000

Life has rebounded quite nicely for pianist Jon Mayer, thank you, now that he has relocated to the West Coast and slowly but surely built up his performing and recording activity to the delight of his listeners there. Not quite falling into the “what ever happened to?" category, Mayer nonetheless dropped from public consciousness for, oh, ...

Do It Like This

By Jon Mayer

Label: A-Records
Released: 1998

Jon Mayer Trio: Do It Like This

by Robert Spencer
October 1, 1998

From the first note of this fine CD it's clear that as a pianist Jon Mayer's technique and sensibilities were forged within the great tradition of his acknowledged influences - chiefly, Wynton Kelly, Red Garland, and Kenny Barron. At the same time Mayer cannot be pigeonholed easily. He can show the drive of Kelly and the ...