Joe Bonner

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Love Dance 04:39 Tools
Like Alice 00:00 Tools
Ugly Beauty 00:00 Tools
We Will Be Together 00:00 Tools
Soft Breezes 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy 00:00 Tools
Blues for Nick 00:00 Tools
I Mean You 00:00 Tools
Passion Dance 00:00 Tools
Osila T 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep for Me 00:00 Tools
H.N.I.C. 00:00 Tools
Monk's Dream 00:00 Tools
Celebration feat. Linda Sharrock 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk 00:00 Tools
Off Minor 00:00 Tools
Nutty 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud 00:00 Tools
Speak Like A Child 00:00 Tools
Straight No Chaser 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't 00:00 Tools
The Song Is You 00:00 Tools
Taxi 00:00 Tools
Ode To 'Trane 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes 00:00 Tools
A Tale Of Two Cities 00:00 Tools
Monkisms 00:00 Tools
Bonner's Bounce 00:00 Tools
Tatoo 00:00 Tools
Song For Cathy 00:00 Tools
I Do 00:00 Tools
Abide With Me 00:00 Tools
Little Chocolate Boy 00:00 Tools
Triangle 00:00 Tools
Quiet Dawn 00:00 Tools
Native Son 00:00 Tools
The Lifesaver 00:00 Tools
Interlude 00:00 Tools
The Observer 00:00 Tools
Hurry Up and Wait 00:00 Tools
Lush Life 00:00 Tools
Miss Greta 00:00 Tools
The North Star 00:00 Tools
Vega 00:00 Tools
Mr. PC 00:00 Tools
A Child Is Born 00:00 Tools
The Wind And The Rain 00:00 Tools
Variations/Little Chocolate Boy 00:00 Tools
I'll Say No This Time 00:00 Tools
Parade 00:00 Tools
Change It 00:00 Tools
Under The Big Sky 00:00 Tools
Why Am I Here? 00:00 Tools
Impressions of Copenhagen/R.V. 00:00 Tools
Wild Is the Wind 00:00 Tools
Invitation 00:00 Tools
Winter Blossom 00:00 Tools
Devotion 00:00 Tools
Sunny 00:00 Tools
New Life 00:00 Tools
Chocolate 00:00 Tools
The Walk Street 00:00 Tools
Down In Devver 00:00 Tools
Impressions Of Copenhagen 00:00 Tools
Variations On The Little Chocolate Boy 00:00 Tools
The Layout 00:00 Tools
Blue Gardenia 00:00 Tools
Gone With the Wind 00:00 Tools
Au Privave 00:00 Tools
Flat-Top 00:00 Tools
Watch What Happens 00:00 Tools
If I Should Lose You 00:00 Tools
Come Sunday 00:00 Tools
Where Did You Go? 00:00 Tools
A Time For Living 00:00 Tools
Celebration 00:00 Tools
Blues For Chocolate 00:00 Tools
Serenata 00:00 Tools
I Only Have Eyes for You 00:00 Tools
Suburban Fantasies 00:00 Tools
Soap Opera 00:00 Tools
New Beginnings 00:00 Tools
Primal Scream 00:00 Tools
Step Outside 00:00 Tools
Batcha Feelin' 00:00 Tools
East Bay Serenade 00:00 Tools
The Year Of The Child 00:00 Tools
Copenhagen Revisited 00:00 Tools
The Revolution 00:00 Tools
Ode To Trane 00:00 Tools
Sonatina 00:00 Tools
Barbados 00:00 Tools
It Could Happen to You 00:00 Tools
Getting You Off My Mind 00:00 Tools
Current Events (Day) 00:00 Tools
Bonners Bounce 00:00 Tools
Soft Breeze 00:00 Tools
Do It 00:00 Tools
Peace, Carmella 00:00 Tools
As Time Goes By 00:00 Tools
Epistophy 00:00 Tools
The Lost Melody 00:00 Tools
Blues for B 00:00 Tools
Peace Carmella 00:00 Tools
Where Did You Go 00:00 Tools
A Dream of Love 00:00 Tools
Impressions of Copenhagen / R.V. 00:00 Tools
Vibeke 00:00 Tools
You and the Night and the Music 00:00 Tools
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Joe Bonner (born 1948) is a jazz pianist who currently leads The Bonner Party, a jazz quartet. Born in Harlem, he grew up in Rocky Mount, NC, where he played sousaphone in his high school band and studied piano privately. In high school, he attended the famed Summer Music Institutes at Virginia State College, organized by Dr. F. Nathaniel Gatlin, the college's music department chair, an Oberlin graduate and a nationally known clarinetist. After high school, he enrolled in Virginia State, concentrating on piano performance, theory and composition, and developed as a jazz pianist. Journeying to New York after graduation, he played with fellow alum, saxophonist Harold Vick, and joined Pharoah Sanders' band at the height of its popularity, appearing on Sanders' album, Black Unity. He also recorded solo albums in Europe on Steeplechase (Denmark). He sees music as a story and feels the accomplished musician must always have "something to say." His compositions and performances use modal scales, with dyamic range, shifting and contrasting bright harmonies, and melodic figures that transform and return throughout the performance. He loves the high end of the piano, adding its pluck to his brilliant improvisations. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.