Jon Lijoi is a trumpet/flugelhorn player, producer, teacher, composer and arranger from New Jersey. He has been back in New York for about a two years now, just after kicking around Nashville for a while. He is recently finished his Masters Degree in Jazz Performance at NYU, where he played with the NYU Jazz Orchestra, Lenny Pickett's Block Party Band, Kenny Werner, Brian Lynch, Rich Shemaria, Mike Richmond, Memo Acevedo and the NYU Latin Jazz Ensemble plus many many more outstanding musicians. Jon also co leads New York City's newest face melting experimental funk band, the NIGHT OF THE LIVING FUNK (FUNKZOMBIE.COM) and also can be heard with the Verbena Court Strut Band( VCSB.COM ) one of Nashville's Dirtiest funk/hip-hop ensembles.

Jon Lijoi Quintet LIVE at Orchard House Cafe 7/10 8pm!

2010-07-10 8:00 pm
2010-07-10 10:00 pm
America/New York

Jon Lijoi NONET - Round Midnight

Night of the LIVING FUNK! Trailor 2!!!

Night of the LIVING FUNK! Trailor 1!

New Band Website!!!

NYU Latin Jazz Ensemble Playing This Thursday(12/3) at Starbucks on Washington Sq Park East and 4th St!

It's going to be a helluva good time!!! Come over and dance the end of semester blues away!

Jon Lijoi - Peggy's Blue Skylight

slightly edited for time, you'll probably hear the cut... Jon Lijoi on Trumpet Mike Richmond on Bass Jason Arce on Tenor Jared Weinstock on Tenor Joe Alterman on Piano DongJoo "RAY" Kim on Drums with special thanks to Cecile Tournesac, Doug Bleck and Shane O'Connell for doing a kick ass job engineering this session.
5:09 minutes (4.72 MB)

Jon Lijoi NONET - Union Squared

Night of the LIVING FUNK! funkzombie.com

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