Jon Dryden Trio
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Dec 5, 2024 7pm
Location
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320 Cedar St
Details
Jon Dryden is a pianist/composer/producer/professor who has performed and/or recorded with Norah Jones, Regina Carter, David Byrne, Lenny White, Paula Cole, Natalie Merchant, Sar Ramirez, Jesse Harris, Gabi Hartmann, and many others. Dryden composed and performed music for the movies Capitalism: A Love Story (directed by Michael Moore), Wishful Thinking, The Hottest State‚ and Labor Pains. Dryden also contributed his talents to the television shows Insomniac with Dave Attell, Gullah Gullah Island, and The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, as well as appearing as a keyboardist on The Late Late Show and The Chappelle Show.
Dryden has released two albums with his namesake trio, Memento Mori in 2020, and Trio in 2022 (which was produced by Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Jesse Harris). He has released five singles with his retro-dreampop project Drifter and is a professor/lecturer in jazz studies at San Jose State and Santa Clara Universities.
