Jon Brion

Jon Brion at The Sunset Tavern in Seattle (Photo By Nadja Dee Witherbee)

Jon Brion (born December 11, 1963) is an American rock and pop multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer. Jon Brion was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. His mother was a jazz singer, his father a band director at Yale, and his brother is a composer/arranger and sister a violinist.

Discography

With The Bats

• How Pop Can You Get? (1982)

With The Grays

• Ro Sham Bo (1994)

Solo

• Meaningless (2001)

Film scores

• Hard Eight (with Michael Penn) (1996)
• Magnolia (1999)
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2003)
• I ♥ Huckabees (2004)
• The Break-Up (2006)

As producer

• Aimee Mann, Whatever, (1993)
• Aimee Mann, I'm with Stupid, (1995)
• Rufus Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, (1998)
• Eleni Mandell, Wishbone, (1998)
• Robyn Hitchcock, Jewels for Sophia, (1998)
• Robyn Hitchcock, A Star for Bram, (1999)
• Fiona Apple, When the Pawn..., (1999)
• The Crystal Method - "Bad Stone" (1997), "Over the Line" (2001), "Realizer" (2004)
• Elliott Smith, From a Basement on a Hill, (unreleased version, recorded 2001)
• Brad Mehldau, Largo, (2002)
• Rhett Miller, The Instigator, (2002)
• Evan Dando, Baby I'm Bored, (2003)
• Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine, (unreleased version, recorded 2002-2003)
• Kanye West, Late Registration (as co-executive producer and co-producer on several tracks), (2005)
• Marjorie Fair, Self Help Serenade (as co-executive producer), (2005)
• Kanye West, Graduation (as co-producer), (2007)
• Spoon (band), "The Underdog," Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, (2007)

Other websites

• Fairfax Avenue: A Jon Brion Resource
• Jon Brion's Official Website
• Jon Brion Discography