Jon Weber

Jon Weber
Background information
Genres	Jazz, post-bop, fusion, stride
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instruments	Piano, synthesizer
Years active	1979–present
Labels	2nd Century Jazz

Jon Weber (born 1961, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American jazz pianist and composer. He serves as host of Piano Jazz With Jon Weber on NPR.

Weber began playing at a very young age. On June 20, 1981, he performed at the Jim and Mimi Betts Wedding Gala in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He lived and performed for many years in Chicago, and now resides in New York City. He has performed and recorded with a broad range of musicians in the United States, Europe, India, Japan, and Australia.

Weber's album Jazz Wagon was released in 1993, followed by a live album, Flying Keys, and It's Never Quite the Same, an album of tunes by composers Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. His most recent album, Simple Complex, features his own compositions. It was released in 2004 with Weber on piano, drummer Mark Walker, Eric Alexander on sax, trumpeters Diego Urcola and Roy Hargrove, bassists Avishai Cohen, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Peter Washington and Gary Burton on vibraphone.

Weber produces and performs a popular concert series entitled 'From Joplin to Jarrett: 100 Years of Piano Jazz', which received positive reviews in such publications as The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. (Review in external links below)

Weber has appeared on many broadcasts including NPR's Piano Jazz with the pianist Marian McPartland, and Jazz Inspired with Judy Carmichael. In 2012 he began hosting an updated version of the popular Piano Jazz program, now called Piano Jazz with Jon Weber on NPR, replacing McPartland, who stepped down from her longtime hosting duties in the fall of 2011.

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