32 Facts About Jon Brion

Jon Brion was born on December 11,1963 and is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer.

Jon Brion performed with the Excerpts, the Bats, 'Til Tuesday and the Grays before becoming an established producer and film score composer.

Jon Brion released his debut solo album, Meaningless, in 2001.

Jon Brion was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, on December 11,1963.

Jon Brion comes from a musical family; his mother, LaRue, was a singer and administrative assistant, and his father, Keith Brion, was a band director at Yale.

Jon Brion grew up in Connecticut, where he dropped out of Hamden High School at the age of 17, opting instead to play music professionally.

In 1987, Jon Brion moved to Boston, where he played solo gigs, formed the short-lived band World's Fair and became a member of the last touring version of Aimee Mann's new wave band 'Til Tuesday.

Jon Brion contributed guitar work to Jellyfish's 1993 album Spilt Milk, and in 1994, joined Dan McCarroll, Buddy Judge and ex-Jellyfish guitarist Jason Falkner in the short-lived pop band the Grays.

Jon Brion played guitar on the Wallflowers' hit song "One Headlight", using a screwdriver that was sitting atop a nearby amp as a slide.

Jon Brion played numerous instruments on Sam Phillips' 1996 release Omnipop.

Jon Brion is featured as keyboardist and drummer on Marianne Faithfull's 2003 album, Kissin Time, and co-wrote a song, "City of Quartz", for her next work, 2005's Before the Poison.

Jon Brion has produced albums by Fiona Apple, Rufus Wainwright, Eleni Mandell, Rhett Miller, Robyn Hitchcock, Brad Mehldau and Evan Dando, and co-produced Kanye West's Late Registration in 2005.

Jon Brion's versions leaked onto the Internet, where the album gained a cult following long before its official release.

Jon Brion worked and performed on some of the tracks for Sean Lennon's 2006 album Friendly Fire.

Jon Brion has produced recordings by British pop performer Dido, Spoon, and Keane, as well as 2010's False Priest by Of Montreal.

Jon Brion produced Best Coast's second album which was released in early 2012.

Jon Brion worked on rapper Mac Miller's album Swimming, and completed production on Miller's posthumous album Circles.

Although, rumors persist about Jon Brion working on a second solo full-length album, as of 2023, an album has not been forthcoming.

Jon Brion is an accomplished film composer, having started scoring by frequently working with director Paul Thomas Anderson, with whom he has a preferential working relationship.

Particularly in his film soundtracks, Jon Brion is noted for his use of early analog sampling instruments, particularly the Chamberlin and Optigan, to create near-realistic emulations of certain instruments.

Jon Brion has earned Best Score Soundtrack Album Grammy nominations for his work on 1999's Magnolia and 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Jon Brion was hired at the last minute to write the incidental music for The Break-Up.

Jon Brion has scored and provided original music for I Heart Huckabees, Punch-Drunk Love, Step Brothers, ParaNorman, The Future, Synecdoche, New York, Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird and Disney's Christopher Robin.

Jon Brion did live composition for a musical commentary on the Step Brothers DVD.

Jon Brion is renowned for his regular Friday-night gigs at the Los Angeles club Largo, which feature covers and original songs, a variety of instruments and occasional guest musicians and comedians.

Jon Brion uses a "jigsaw puzzle" approach to performing songs, and uses looping systems to record himself starting often with drums, then adding piano, bass, guitar, and vocals.

Jon Brion resumed playing at Largo on a regular weekly basis later that year, transitioning to a monthly show in 2016, until the COVID-19 Pandemic.

In summer 2023, Jon Brion stated to Largo at the Coronet that he intended to resume shows in the near future.

In March 2016, Jon Brion performed his score for Punch-Drunk Love with Wordless Music Orchestra in both Los Angeles and New York City, at the Ace Hotel and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, respectively.

In February 2018, Jon Brion opened for John Mulaney as part of Mulaney's special, Kid Gorgeous.

Jon Brion performed during Mulaney's New York City leg of his tour, playing classic rock songs on Radio City's Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ.

Jon Brion had relationships with Aimee Mann during the late 1980s-early 1990s and with Mary Lynn Rajskub from 1997 to 2002.