Jon Mayer

For far too long, Jon Mayer - an emotive, playful and superbly inventive bebop-based pianist who always delivers ear-pleasing improvisations - was one of jazz' better kept secrets. His story started in the mid-to-late '50s, after the Harlem-born piano ace had graduated from the famed High School of Music and Art in Manhattan and briefly attended the Manhattan School of Music. Mayer then became ...more