Jon Davis

Jon Davis is a pianist and composer born in New York City who began on piano and guitar in his early teens. He studied briefly with Lennie Tristano and then at the New England Conservatory with Jaki Byard, Madame Chaloff, and Ran Blake, before building his career in Boston and, in the early 1980s, San Francisco, where he worked with the John Handy Quartet, Joe Henderson, and Stan Getz. He is widely associated with bassist Jaco Pastorius and the Standards Zone trio. After returning to New York in the early 1990s he recorded a series of trio albums for Posi-Tone, including One Up Front (2013), Moving Right Along (2015), and Happy Juice (2017).