Jon Weiss

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Jon Weiss has been performing professionally as a pianist, keyboardist, acompanist, and pianist/vocalist in the New York area and overseas since 1979. Jon has performed in Europe, the Carribean, Turkey, and Mexico.

He plays all styles of jazz, pop, Latin music (salsa, merengue and other styles), R&B and commerical dance music. He sings in several languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Yiddish, French and Russian.

Jon has performed with famous jazz and pop musicians including Dexter Gordon, Flip Phillips, Eddie Henderson, Percy France, Tisziji Munoz, Houston Person, Carmen Lundy, Gale Winters, Vanessa Rubin, Arthur Prysock, Rochelle Thompson, the Four Tops, the Drifters, The Platters and the Brooklyn Bridge.

The Jon Weiss Trio Featuring Rochelle Thompson: Migrating Song Birds

Read "Migrating Song Birds" reviewed by Dave Nathan

by Dave Nathan
August 1, 2001

Two performers who have paid their dues, probably more than once, share the bill on an album of mostly familiar material. Jon Weiss leads his trio on piano and sings on some tracks while jazz singer Rochelle Thompson picks up the rest of the program with Weiss accompanying her. Thompson, who gigs at Harlem jazz spots like the Lenox Lounge, brings true jazz credentials to her vocalizing with a voice that, like Circe, draws the listener to her, enticing, but ...