Jean John

Jean John is a Slovenian-born drummer and composer based in New York, known for suite-length works that draw jazz, classical and world music into a single narrative. His project The Port of Life, dedicated to immigrants, won the ASCAP Johnny Mandel Prize in 2017, and he has taken the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award three times, in 2012, 2014 and 2017. He recorded A Love Lane Nocturne, released in 2019, in a trio with pianist Emmet Cohen and bassist Russell Hall. Born Žan Tetičkovič in Ptuj in 1991, he moved to the United States in 2010 and graduated from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Alongside his own projects he has performed with Yosvany Terry, Melissa Aldana and pianist Kyoko Oyobe, and worked as a music copyist for Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette.