Jon Herington | |
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 Herington with Steely Dan in 2015 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jonathan Reuel Herington |
| Born | April 14, 1954 Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock, jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Website | www |
Jon Herington (born Jonathan Reuel Herington on April 14, 1954) is an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, and session musician.
Herington was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and grew up in West Long Branch, New Jersey on the Jersey Shore. [1] His first band (called Highway) opened for local Bruce Springsteen shows on several occasions. [2] 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 University and also studied privately with Harry Leahey and Dennis Sandole. [3]
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 provided Herington's 1992 album, The Complete Rhyming Dictionary, a collection of Herington original instrumentals, to Becker and Fagen. [4]
Soon after, Herington got a call to record "Janie Runaway" and toured with Steely Dan to promote the album. In 2000, Herington released a solo album, entitled Like So. In 2003, Steely Dan had him 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 appears on Walter Becker's second solo album Circus Money . In 2010 and again in 2012, Jon joined the Dukes of September touring group which is composed of Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs. [4] On June 14, 2012, the band performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to promote their 2012 summer concert tour. [5] Herington also played on Fagen's album Sunken Condos .
Herington plays a Gibson CS-336 and a Fender Telecaster. [6]
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