Jonny King

A fine pianist who is quite literate (and even wrote What Jazz Is, a book on jazz that focused on the Young Lions), Jonny King has strong potential for the future. He started playing piano when he was nine (Earl Hines and Teddy Wilson were early influences) and within a few years as a teenager he was already playing some gigs in New York clubs. In the early 1980's he studied with Tony Aless and Mulgrew Miller, and had the opportunity to sit in with Art Blakey. Since then King has been closely associated with the Young Lions, toured with Joshua Redman, was featured with OTB and...