Jon Dreyer

Upcoming Performances

• Ongoing: Sunday jazz brunch in Inman Square, every Sunday 12:00 noon-2:30 pm, with Harvey Diamond, piano; Joe Goodman, drums. At Olé Mexican Grill, 11 Springfield St, Cambridge MA 02139 (ten minute walk from Central Square T Station)

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

  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.

• Wednesday March 3 2010, 7:00-9:15 pm at Imari Asian fusion restaurant (It Rains Fishes), 14 Thompson St, Winchester MA 01890, with Marcello, guitar; and Oren Levine, piano

Bio

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.

As a bassist, I have performed with Harvey Diamond, Hankus Netsky, Stanley Sagov, Ted Knowlton, Burnett Thompson, Oren Levine, Ken Navarro, Marcello B, Tad Elmer, Roy Nathanson, Katya Dreyer-Oren, Beth Logan, Hannah Rose Diamond, Scott Goulding, Joe Musacchia, and others. Mostly self-taught on bass, I have taken some lessons from Richard Davis and more recently from Marcus McLaurine at the Vermont Jazz Center, as well as coaching from Harvey Diamond, Satoshi Takeishi, Eugene Uman and Pete Yellin. I am a former member of the jazz quartet About Time and the Washington Jazz Battalion big band.

I have studied cello with Glenn Garlick, Irvin Klinkon and Ben Levinson, and as well as a master class with János Starker. I have been a member of the Boston Philharmonic and the Fairfax Symphony and have played in freelance groups such as the National Gallery Orchestra.

I also teach both cello and bass.

During the day I work as a math tutor and computer science tutor in Lexington MA. Before that I worked as a math teacher and software engineer.

Recordings

• Listen on MySpace Music
• Listen on Katya Dreyer-Oren's site
• Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Boston Philharmonic
• Stravinsky Rite of Spring with the Boston Philharmonic

• Sacred Space: Melodies to Welcome Shabbat, with Michael Buonaiuto on hammered dulcimer and Beth Levin on guitar

Jon Dreyer • 781-696-2614 • 81 Baker Ave, Lexington MA 02421-6228 • email