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Jon Gold

Originally from Palo Alto, California, pianist and composer Jon Gold has had a life long interest in Brazilian and Latin jazz.

He's performed throughout northern California, including the Monterey Jazz Festival, and throughout Rio de Janeiro. Along the way he's recorded with such artists as Airto Moreira and bassist Harvie S.

Jon also has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California at Santa Cruz and gained noteriety as the first person to ever melt a diamond.

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Jon Gold: Bossa of Possibility

Read "Bossa of Possibility" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Keyboardist Jon Gold continues where he left off with Brazil Confidential (Blujazz Records, 2011) and his love for Brazilian and Latin jazz. He brings back several of the musicians from that date to help essay 12 new compositions which ease into terrain that goes beyond his root calling. He adds to the mood of the music by blending the musicians into the compositions, a shift of balance that adds fire and spit or ushers in the cool air that entice ...

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Jon Gold: Brazil Confidential

Read "Brazil Confidential" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Jon Gold is a fluid and lyrical pianist with a deft approach, who lets his ideas flow with facile ease. His artistry is not surprising, given that his early influences were classical composers like Ravel, as well as jazz pianists Oscar Peterson and McCoy Tyner. He was entranced enough by Tyner to learn almost all of his solos note-for-note, but it is in Brazilian music that Gold finds his muse, the first link to that genre coming when he heard ...

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Jon Gold: Brazil Confidential

Read "Brazil Confidential" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Jon Gold's Brazil Confidential is unique. It is an album of music that shows just how much the pianist and composer has internalized the Brazilian experience and what that can do for authenticity when it comes to an American musician writing in a Brazilian style. It may be true that the experience is largely urban, but that should not take away from the achievement of this album. Perhaps the true breakthrough is in the unabashed spirituality that is fused into ...

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”Jon Gold is a wonderfully soulful pianist...I was delighted to hear how his music has grown and evolved in a very insightful and delicate direction that speaks directly and powerfully to the listener. Using interesting instrumental combinations, a wide compositional palette and featuring an all-star cast of American & Brazilian musicians,”Brazilian Confidential” will reward repeated listenings”.

Tim Jackson Director of the Monterey Jazz Festival

“...Intricate arrangements with a lively sense of rhythm, this recording of Jon Gold's music is attractive and full of a palpable joie de vivre.You will be entertained for sure.”

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”Jon Gold is a wonderfully soulful pianist...I was delighted to hear how his music has grown and evolved in a very insightful and delicate direction that speaks directly and powerfully to the listener. Using interesting instrumental combinations, a wide compositional palette and featuring an all-star cast of American & Brazilian musicians,”Brazilian Confidential” will reward repeated listenings”. Tim Jackson Director of the Monterey Jazz Festival “...Intricate arrangements with a lively sense of rhythm, this recording of Jon Gold's music is attractive and full of a palpable joie de vivre.You will be entertained for sure.” Dave Liebman saxophonist “...a music that is at once tunefully melodic and harmonically complex...His piano style is expansive and orchestral, providing a deep harmonic base to the remainder of his band

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