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Jon Weber

ジョン・ウェーバー　/　じょん・うぇーばー

Composer

January 1, 1961 (age 65)

composer
jazz musician
pianist

My Take

Jon Weber is the kind of musician I find genuinely thrilling. Largely self-taught, blessed with perfect pitch and an almost uncanny melodic memory, he turned raw aural gift into a serious career across New York and Chicago and onto NPR as host of Piano Jazz. What gets me is the path: not conservatory polish but ears, recall, and obsessive love of the music doing the heavy lifting. That makes his acclaim feel hard-won rather than handed down. A born-1961 Milwaukee kid carrying a living songbook in his head, able to recall and reframe melodies on command, is exactly the sort of artist I want more people to discover.

Overview

Jon Weber (born 1961, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a New York City and Chicago-based jazz pianist and composer whose compositions and performances have met critical and popular acclaim in many countries around the world. Largely self-taught, Weber has perfect pitch and remarkable melodic recall. He serves as host of Piano Jazz With Jon Weber on NPR.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Jon Weber
Name (Japanese): ジョン・ウェーバー
Reading: じょん・うぇーばー
Born: January 1, 1961 (age 65)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Ox
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: composer / jazz musician / pianist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%20(%E3%83%94%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88)

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