Jon Weber

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.

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

Occupation

composer / jazz musician / pianist

Motto

Private

• 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)

Tags

• composer
• jazz musician
• pianist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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