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Jon
De Lucia
Jon De Lucia was born in Quincy, MA just south of Boston in 1980.
Raised in Quincy, one of his first major music teachers was Berklee
Alumnus Rich Kenneally. In 11th grade he began to study privately
at Berklee College of Music with Dino Govoni. He received the
Louis Armstrong Jazz Award upon graduation from high school.
Attending Berklee College of Music, Jon De Lucia had the opportunity
to study privately with such amazing teachers as Frank Tiberi, George
Garzone, Andy McGhee, Shannon LeClaire, and Bill Pierce. While at
Berklee he also studied Afrocuban folkloric music extensively, including
traveling to Cuba to study bata drums. Later Jon studied with forward-thinking
alto saxophonist and Blue Note artist Greg Osby. He was selected to
play in a group led by Blue Note artist Joe Lovano and appeared on
televised, nationally-syndicated workshops through PBS' WGBH.
After graduation from Berklee, Jon went on his first tour of Japan
as part of Berklee faculty member Makoto Takenaka's Berklee Jazz Quintet.
This led to four subsequent tours of Japan over the next two years
with various groups including Standard Deviation, a band co-led by
Jon De Lucia and guitarist Hironobu Saito. Internationally, Jon De
Lucia has appeared frequently in newspapers, on television and the
radio, notably live on WGBH Boston in 2005, and live on Fuji Terebi
for Japanese Television in 2006.
In 2006, Jon released his first CD, Face no Face, on Jonji
Music, his own label. Most recently, Jon has performed with Bob Moses,
Kendrick Scott, Francisco Mela, Tommy Crane, Mark Walker, David Tronzo,
John Lockwood and Geoffrey Keezer and can be found performing frequently
in New York and Boston with the Jon De Lucia Group.
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