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Producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion grew up in a musical family: his father was director of the Yale concert and marching bands, his mother sang in jazz bands, and his siblings, Randy (a conductor/arranger in L.A.) and Laurie (a violinist), were both avid music students. Young Jon didn’t deal with instruction or practice well, but his natural affinity for improvisation and melody more than made up for his impatience. Unwilling to conform to the conventional school system, Brion attended special education class at Hamden High School in New Haven, CT, and the day he turned 17, he left school for good.
Moving to Boston in 1987, the young musician formed many bonds that he would keep long into his professional career, including producer Mike Denneen (owner of Q Division, Boston’s premier studio and record label) and ‘Til Tuesday vocalist Aimee Mann. Also while there, Brion tuned his improvisational musical abilities: “I used to watch TV with an unplugged electric guitar, on the couch, and commercials would come on and I’d try to play along. It was one of the prime things I concerned myself with for several years, getting to the point where if I heard it, I could play it. Then I started working on getting my brain to do multiple things at once. And having my hands translate them.” This proficiency led to increasingly frequent studio work on the West Coast, eventually resulting in his move to L.A. While in California, he and Jellyfish guitarist Jason Falkner formed the Grays, an underground superstar group which released the 1994 album Ro Sham Bo, before quickly fading as the other members (Falkner, Dan McCarroll, and Buddy Judge) went on to individual musical success.
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Colton56 wrote:
Can anyone provide a link to the Future OST?
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KommisarK wrote:
y no u listen to Meaningless. It's incredible.
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TemuryanVadim wrote:
Little Person is amazing
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affasf wrote:
The Future's ost it's sick; but Meaningless is really meaningless. I prefer Alex Turner as movie unrelated author.
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Synecdoche
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futchadoc wrote:
I <3 Huckabees!
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fuckabees[2]
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fuckabees
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Colton56 wrote:
Does anyone know if the soundtrack he wrote for The Future will ever be released? [2]
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TheRandomGuy wrote:
One of my favorite producers and composers.
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Erbavore wrote:
God, I really want him to release another solo album.
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Latinlov wrote:
lets have some fun
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naturalismo wrote:
Does anyone know if the soundtrack he wrote for The Future will ever be released?
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panicz-brunski wrote:
just when i thought that i listened to all of his great music there is, I found "home demos" - christmas came early this year!
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crywank wrote:
I haven't listened to Jon Brion in months. His music used to be a daily ritual for me. I've just put it on for the first time in what seems like forever. It's shaking me up.
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theflor wrote:
I covered Little Person from Synecdoche, NY on my new Remake EP I just released on my site www.nickflora.com for FREE! Give it a listen!
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MihaiDruga wrote:
....check it out!...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJStWiqSOpU ...sort of "Phone Call" by Memoryhouse!!!
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affasf wrote:
Synecdoche, New York.
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lucasthomps wrote:
<3 him.
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withallmypower wrote:
"his solo album is terrible" WTF????????
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Jon Brion's Tendinitis
30 Apr 2006 | from blog.myspace.com/jonbrion
as many of you are aware, Jon has developed tendinitis and
will be taking an indefinite break from his weekly Largo shows.
this is devastating news for so many of us... but let's all keep
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