Jon Jang’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader
Is Musician 
Composer 
Pianist 
Jazz musician 
From United States of America 
Type Music 
Gender male
Birth 11 March 1954
Age: 66 years

Jon Jang (Chinese: 胡健良; pinyin: Hú Jiànliáng; born March 11, 1954) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. Of Chinese ancestry, he is active in the Asian American jazz movement and specializes in music which combines elements of jazz and Asian musics.

Career

Jang holds a B.M. degree in music performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1978).

The Jon Jang Sextet performed at the Beijing Jazz Festival in 1997.

Jang lives in San Francisco, California. He has recorded for the Asian Improv and Soul Note labels. He has performed at the Chinatown Music Festival.

In 2000 Jang received the Creative Capital Award in the discipline of Performing Arts.

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