Jon Herington
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Jon Herington, real name: Jonathan Reuel Herington, was born on April 14th. He is an American guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer, most known for being a session musician. Currently, he is known for being Steely Dan's "new guitar guy." He has been active on the New York City music scene since 1985.
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[edit] Career
Herington grew up in West Long Branch, New Jersey. Early on in his life, his first band (called Highway) opened for local Bruce Springsteen on several occasions. He started playing piano and then saxophone, but began playing guitar when his friends left their guitars at his house as a child. Herington studied guitar with Ted Dunbar while at Rutgers College and also studied privately with Harry Leahey and Dennis Sandole. In 1999, toward the end of the recording of their 2000 released album Two Against Nature, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan wanted to hire another rhythm guitar player for some tracks. Ted Baker, a close friend of Herington's, was playing keyboard for the band and Becker and Fagen asked for a recommendation for a guitarist. Baker played "The Complete Rhyming Dictionary," a 1992 solo album on Pioneer's Glass House Records that was released only in Japan, for Becker and Fagen [1]. Soon after, Herington got a call to record Janie Runaway with the rest of the band. Herington then toured with the band to promote the album. In 2003, Steely Dan had Herington back to record their release, Everything Must Go, as well as to tour in promotion of the album. In 2006, Donald Fagen hired Herington to play on and tour for his solo album Morph the Cat. He will appear on Walter Becker's latest solo album to be released in 2007.
In 2000, Herington released a solo album, entitled Like So. In addition to Steely Dan, Herington has toured with Boz Scaggs, Bette Midler's "Kiss My Brass" 2005 tour, the Jim Beard group, The Blue Nile, Phoebe Snow, saxophonist Bill Evans, the contemporary jazz superband Chroma, Lucy Kaplansky (of Cry, Cry, Cry), and jazz/blues organ great Jack McDuff. He was the pit guitarist Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida on Broadway for several years. Some of Herington's other recording efforts have included Dennis Chambers' "Outbreak"; Michael Leonhart's "Slow"; Jim Beard's four recordings (three of which were co-produced by Jon); two Bill Evans records, Escape and Starfish and the Moon; Michael "Patches" Stewart's Penetration; Bob Berg's "Riddles" and "Virtual Reality;" Lucy Kaplansky's "10 Year Night;" Michael Brecker's "Now You See It...(Now You Don't); " Randy Brecker's "Toe to Toe;" Victor Bailey's "Bottoms Up;" Chroma's "Music on the Edge" (with Mike Stern and others); Robert Secret's "Waiting for Wood" and "Relativity [Blues]," and Lynne Robyn's "Red Bird in Snow." He shares a music studio in midtown Manhattan with Jim Beard.
[edit] Gear
Herington plays a Gibson ES-335 and a Fender Telecaster (and a few times a Hamer Newport) through a Shure wireless transmitter to a Guytron amplifier with a Guytron speaker cabinet containing two unmatched Celestion 12 inch speakers. The Guytron is a 100 watt channel switching amp with an interesting twist: it has an intermediate power amp stage with two EL-84 tubes used for overdrive tone (located in the circuit before the quartet of EL-34 power amp tubes).
[edit] Discography
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- The Complete Rhyming Dictionary (1992)
- Like So (2000)
[edit] Also appears on (partial list)
- Cry, Cry, Cry (1998) - Cry Cry Cry
- Every Single Day (2001) - Lucy Kaplansky
- Everything Must Go (2003) - Steely Dan
- Lost at the Carnival (1994) - Jim Beard
- Morph The Cat (2006) - Donald Fagen
- Music on the Edge (1991) - Chroma
- Now You See It...Now You Don't (1990) - Michael Brecker
- Outbreak (2002) - Dennis Chambers
- Red Thread (2004) - Lucy Kaplansky
- Song of the Sun (1990) - Jim Beard
- Toe to Toe (1990) - Randy Brecker
- Two Against Nature (2000) - Steely Dan
