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Louis Landon

Louis Landon is a composer and Steinway artist. Formerly of New York and currently living in New Mexico, Louis has dedicated his life to music. His career has taken him around the world playing a variety of styles with some of the most recognized names in the entertainment industry. He toured nationally and internationally, playing classical music for Mikhail Baryshnikov; jazz fusion with The John Payne Band; Latin music with "Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers”; pop music with Rupert "Pina Colada Song" Holmes; and rock & roll with John Hall, opening for "Little Feat”.

For the past 33 years, through his production company, Landon Music Company, Louis has written and produced music for film, video, and commercials. He recorded his first original album, Love Songs & Jazz, in 1994 and has since released 43 Albums/CDs, on the LCI Record label. 36 of those albums/CDs are solo piano releases. His latest album, entitled Popcorn Jazz Piano, was released on April 1, 2022.

Louis Landon mission: To create a more compassionate world by writing, recording and performing music that inspires love, peace, joy and gratitude.

Gear

Louis Landon is a Steinway Artist

Wadada Leo Smith / Gunter Baby Sommer: Wisdom in Time

Read "Wisdom in Time" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
July 3, 2007

More than 25 years have passed since the late, great bassist Peter Kowald introduced trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith to then East German drummer Günter Baby Sommer. The Chicago-Wuppertal-Dresden axis of three idiosyncratic and free-minded improvisers toured Europe and recorded one of the longstanding and seminal documents of European-American free improvisation, Touch The Earth--Break The Shells (Intakt, 1997). Smith and Sommer meet again for another set of intimate duets on Wisdom in Time, after touring in 2005 with bassist Barre Phillips ...

Recording

Louis Landon Releases New Solo Piano CD

Source: Landon Music Company
February 7, 2008

Performance / Tour

Louis Landon - Jazz Pianist, Vocalist, Composer, Lyricist Makes Special New York City Appearance

Source: All About Jazz
November 12, 2003

Louis Landon has played classical music for Mikhail Baryshnikov on national and international tours. He has played jazz opening for Gary Burton, Weather Report, John McLaughlin, Tony Williams Lifetime, Woody Shaw, Stanley Turrentine, and Bill Evans. He has played Latin music with “Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers" on national and international tours. He has played pop music with Rupert “Pina Colada Song" Holmes on television and national tours. He has played rock & roll with John Hall, opening for ...
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July 2006 issue of Keyboard Magazine by Assistant Editor Michael Gallant of “unwind”: “Louis is right on when he calls unwind "melodic, optimistic, and peaceful." Though this New Age solo piano album is indeed meditative and mellow, it sacrifices no musical rigor to achieve those ends. With backgrounds in jazz, Latin music, rock, pop, film composing, and classical piano (he's accompanied Baryshnikov, among other artists), Louis brings his breadth and depth of experience to bare here. His playing and compositions are sensitive as they are complex and, even within the New Age aesthetic, a diverse range of influences is more than apparent.”

"unwind" CD review by Michael Woodhead �- LuxAeterna �- January 11, 2006 "Landon's compositions and playing draw you into a world of personal warmth and joyousness." "unwind" CD review by Kathy Parsons �- Solo Piano Publications �- January 30, 2006 "I hear a lot of relaxing piano music, but "unwind" stands out as an exceptional CD with its quiet sophistication and gentle elegance." "unwind" CD review by RJ Lannan �- NewAge Reporter.com �- February 26, 2006 "Louis Landon has some powerful and poignant music here. His style is quite gentle and his compositions are emotion�-filled vignettes of how life is and how it should be."

"100% Me" by Kirstin Bergquist �- Pulse Magazine �- April 2005 "Landon is quite an interesting man " a true original. He is the type of musician who is dedicated to sharing music with the world in a way that so many of his contemporaries seem to have forgotten."

Joyous Spirit CD review by Doug Morris �- Indie Music Appreciation Group " Dec. 2004 "I don't care what kind of music you think you like, buy this album." The Gershwins, Cole Porter, & Me �- CD review by Steve Israel �- Times Herald Record �- March 5,

2004 "The real test of the CD comes on the third song " after Landon sings and plays the Gershwins' "SWonderful" and Cole Porter's "Night and Day." That's when he and his trio perform an original Landon tune. Can he even begin to hold his own with these great songwriters? Yes, he can. Landon has a smooth crooner's voice with enough range to translate the everyman emotions of these timeless songs."

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