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Jon Mayer (born September 7, 1938 in New York City) is an American jazz pianist and composer.


Discography


As leader

*''Round Up the Usual Suspects'' (1995) – with
Ron Carter Ronald Levin Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history. He has won three Grammy awards, and is also a cellist who has recorded nu ...
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Billy Higgins Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop. Biography Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, be ...
*''Do It Like This'' (1998) – with
Ernie Watts Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's ...
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Bob Maize Bob Maize (January 15, 1945 – November 20, 2004) was an American jazz double bassist born and raised in Ontario California. Maize played piano from age seven and switched to bass at 13. After moving to San Francisco in 1963, Maize worked in the ...
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Harold Mason Harold Mason may refer to: * Harold Mason (politician), Australian politician *Harold Andrew Mason, English academic and editor *Harold Mason, founder of Greenwood Publishing Group *Harold L. Mason of the Mason family The Mason family of Virginia ...
*''Rip Van Winkle: Live at the Jazz Bakery'' (1999) – with Bob Maize, Harold Mason *''Full Circle'' (2002) – with
Rufus Reid Rufus Reid (born February 10, 1944, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer. Biography Reid was raised in Sacramento, California, where he played the trumpet through junior high and high school. Upon graduation ...
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Victor Lewis Victor Lewis (born May 20, 1950) is an American jazz drummer, composer, and educator. Early life Victor Lewis was born on May 20, 1950 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Richard Lewis, who played saxophone and mother, Camille, a pianist-vocalist ...
*''The Classics'' (
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, 2004) – with Rufus Reid,
Willie Jones III Willie Jones III (born June 8, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is a jazz drummer. He has played, toured, and recorded with Horace Silver, Roy Hargrove, Hank Jones, Cedar Walton, and Herbie Hancock. He played on Arturo Sandoval's Grammy-winn ...
*''Strictly Confidential'' (2005) – with Chuck Israels, Arnie Wise *''My Romance'' (2006) – with Rufus Reid,
Dick Berk Richard Alan Berk (May 22, 1939 – February 8, 2014) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Career A native of San Francisco, California, he studied at the Berklee College of Music and played in the Boston area early in the 1960s. In 1 ...
*''So Many Stars'' (2007) – with Rufus Reid,
Roy McCurdy Roy McCurdy (born November 28, 1936) is a jazz drummer. Career Before joining Cannonball Adderley's Quintet in 1965 and staying with the band until Adderley's death in 1975, he had played with Chuck and Gap Mangione in the Jazz Brothers (1960†...
*''Nightscape'' (2009) – with Rufus Reid, Roy McCurdy *''The Art of the Ballad'' (2014) – solo piano *''Live at the Athenaeum'' (2017) – with Darek Oles, Roy McCurdy


As sideman

With Jackie McLean *''
Strange Blues ''Strange Blues'' is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean, recorded in 1957 and released on the Prestige label.
'' (Prestige, 1957) With John Coltrane *''
Like Sonny This article presents the discography of the American jazz saxophonist and bandleader John Coltrane (1926–1967). Introduction Coltrane participated in his first recording sessions while enlisted in the Navy from August 6, 1945, to August 11, ...
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References

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Jon Mayer Jon Mayer (born September 7, 1938 in New York City) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Discography As leader *''Round Up the Usual Suspects'' (1995) – with Ron Carter, Billy Higgins *''Do It Like This'' (1998) – with Ernie Watts, ...
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Jon Mayer
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External links

* http://www.jonmayer.com/ American jazz pianists American male pianists 1938 births Living people 20th-century American pianists 21st-century American pianists 20th-century American male musicians 21st-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians Reservoir Records artists Fresh Sounds Records artists {{US-jazz-pianist-stub