Jon Herington (born Jonathan Reuel Herington on April 14, 1954) is an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, and

session musician Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances. The term sideman is also used in the case of live performances, such as accompanying a recording artist on a ...

Career

Herington was born in

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. His first band (called Highway) opened for local

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shows on several occasions. He started playing piano and then saxophone, but began playing guitar when his friends left their guitars at his house as a child. Herington studied guitar with

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while at

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and also studied privately with

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and Dennis Sandole. In 1999, toward the end of the recording of their 2000 released album ''

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'',

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and

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of Steely Dan wanted to hire another rhythm guitar player for some tracks. Ted Baker, a close friend of Herington's, was playing keyboard for the band and Becker and Fagen asked for a recommendation for a guitarist. Baker provided Herington's 1992 album, ''The Complete Rhyming Dictionary'', a collection of Herington original instrumentals, to Becker and Fagen. Soon after, Herington got a call to record "

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" and toured with

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to promote the album. In 2000, Herington released a solo album, entitled ''Like So''. In 2003, Steely Dan had him back to record their release, '' Everything Must Go'', as well as to tour in promotion of the album. In 2006, Donald Fagen hired Herington to play on and tour for his solo album ''

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''. He appears on Walter Becker's second solo album ''

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''. In 2010 and again in 2012, Jon joined the Dukes of September touring group which is composed of

, Michael McDonald and

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. On June 14, 2012, the band performed on

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to promote their 2012 summer concert tour. Herington also played on Fagen's album '' Sunken Condos''. Herington plays a

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and a

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Discography

* ''Like So'' (Decorator, 2000) * ''Pulse and Cadence'' (ESC, 2008) * ''Shine (Shine Shine)'' (Decorator, 2010) * ''Time on My Hands'' (Wise Axe, 2012)

As sideman

With

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* ''Song of the Sun'' (CTI, 1991) * ''Truly'' (Escapade, 1997) * ''Advocate'' (ESC, 1999) * ''Revolutions'' (Intuition, 2008) With

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* ''Every Single Day'' (Red House, 2001) * ''The Red Thread'' (Red House, 2004) * ''Over the Hills'' (Red House, 2007) With

, ''Circus Money'' (5 Over 12/Mailboat 2008) *

, ''Morph the Cat'' (Reprise, 2006) * Donald Fagen, ''Sunken Condos'' (2012) * Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs, ''Live at Lincoln Center: The Dukes of September'' (2014) * Steely Dan, ''Two Against Nature'' (Giant/Reprise, 2000) * Steely Dan, ''Everything Must Go'' (Reprise, 2003) With others *

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, ''Getting There'' (Bluxo 1999) * Victor Bailey, ''Bottom's Up'' (Atlantic, 1989) *

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, ''So Many Stars'' (Sony Classical, 1995) *

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, ''Riddles'' (Stretch, 1994) * Bob Berg, ''Virtual Reality'' (Denon, 1993) *

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, ''Movin' On'' (Criss Cross, 1992) *

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, ''Now You See It... Now You Don't'' (GRP, 1990) *

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, ''Toe to Toe'' (MCA, 1990) *

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, ''Outbreak'' (ESC, 2002) *

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, '' A Long Story'' (Manhattan, 1991) *

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, ''Escape'' (Escapade, 1996) * Bill Evans, ''Starfish & the Moon'' (Escapade, 1997) * Ricky Fante, ''Rewind'' (Virgin, 2004) *

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, ''Whirlwind'' (Atlantic, 1989) *

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, ''Single Heart'' (Greentree, 1985) *

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, ''Slow'' (Sunnyside, 2002) * Rob Morsberger, ''A Periodic Rush of Waves'' (Hieroglyph, 2009) *

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, ''Secular Hymns'' (Impulse!/Verve, 2016) *

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, ''Voices Division One,'' (Atlantic, 2001) * Mike Stern, ''These Times'' (ESC, 2003) *

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, ''Middle of the Night'' (Mirage 1985)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Herington, Jon Living people American rock guitarists American male guitarists Musicians from Paterson, New Jersey People from West Long Branch, New Jersey 1954 births Guitarists from New Jersey 20th-century American guitarists 20th-century American male musicians The Dukes of September members