Jon Dreyer

Upcoming Performances

Harvey Diamond

Who, me?

I'm a cellist and bassist living in the Boston Massachusetts area. I play mostly classical music on the cello and mostly jazz on the bass, though I've dabbled in musical theater, bluegrass, folk, klezmer and other Jewish music.

I have had the good fortune to perform extensively over the past few years with the legendary jazz pianist Harvey Diamond. This collaboration has changed me musically. As Michael Brecker once said (about different musicians), I like who I become when we play together.

Eugene Uman, artistic director of the Vermont Jazz Center, had this to say about Harvey Diamond:

Diamond is a musician's musician with a penchant for honing gems from the Great American Songbook into personal statements that leave us yearning for more. Diamond will take a familiar melody, distill it into a basic sketch and then expand upon the song's form by elaborating its harmony, melody and stylistic presentation. He does all this with a complete absence of pretension so that his interpretations are egoless reflections of where he is in the moment, presented through a lens of years of study and experience. Diamond is a master of both melody and harmony much like his predecessors in the legacy of jazz piano, Bill Evans and Lennie Tristano.

Gigs

Please get in touch if you are looking for a bassist, cellist, or small jazz group for a restaurant, club, wedding, house party, etc. We can perform in a small space and can bring an electronic piano. We can be as small as a piano/bass duo, or we can add drums for a jazz trio, or add vocals or other instruments to that.

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