Jon Brion

Jon Brion born December 11 1963 is an American singer songwriter multiinstrumentalist record producer and composer He performed with the Excerpts the Bats Til Tuesday and the Grays before becoming an established producer and film score composer Brion has produced music for artists and bands including Of Montreal Aimee Mann Love Jones Eels Fiona Apple Elliott Smith Robyn Hitchcock Rhett Miller The Crystal Method Kanye West Sky Ferreira and Mac Miller According to Stereogum Brions work on Manns first solo albums lay the groundwork for a sound that became synonymous with a strain of notable alternative acts at the turn of the century Brions film scores include Hard Eight 1996 Magnolia 1999 PunchDrunk Love 2002 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and I Heart Huckabees both 2004 Synecdoche New York 2008 ParaNorman 2012 Lady Bird 2017 and Christopher Robin 2018 He released his debut solo album Meaningless in 2001 Brion was born in Glen Ridge New Jersey on December 11 1963 He comes from a musical family his mother LaRue was an administrative assistant and singer and his father Keith Brion was a band director at Yale His brother and sister became a composerarranger and a violinist respectively Brion grew up in Connecticut where he dropped out of Hamden High School at the age of 17 opting instead to play music professionally From 198085 Jon was part of the band The Excerpts along with Stephen Harris Dean Falcone Jim Balga Bobby Butcher Spike Priggen In the early 1980s Brion and musicianproducer Bill Murphy began a writing collaboration in New Haven Connecticut They eventually enlisted bassist Don Riff Fertman and together formed the Bats not to be confused with the New Zealand group or South African group of the same name The Bats released a single Popgun and one album How Pop Can You Get on Gustav Records in 1982 The recordings had much critical acclaim but little commercial success and the trio eventually disbanded In 1987 Brion moved to Boston where he played solo gigs formed the shortlived band Worlds Fair and became a member of the last touring version of Aimee Manns new wave band Til Tuesday He contributed guitar work to Jellyfishs 1993 album Spilt Milk and in 1994 joined Dan McCarroll Buddy Judge and exJellyfish guitarist Jason Falkner in the shortlived pop band the Grays He also played guitar on the Wallflowers hit song One Headlight using a screwdriver that was sitting atop a nearby amp as a slide Brion played numerous instruments on Sam Phillips 1996 release Omnipop Brion is featured as keyboardist and drummer on Marianne Faithfulls 2003 album Kissin Time and cowrote a song City of Quartz for her next work 2005s Before the Poison After being recognized as an accomplished session player Brion branched out into production on thengirlfriend Manns 1993 solo debut Whatever and its followup Im With Stupid He has also produced albums by Fiona Apple Rufus Wainwright Eleni Mandell Rhett Miller Robyn Hitchcock Brad Mehldau and Evan Dando and coproduced Kanye Wests Late Registration in 2005 Source Article Jon Brion from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30