JON CROSSE

Career Highlights


•14 years as musical director, arranger, instrumentalist, and conductor for singer/songwriter Paul Anka

 

•Music director of production team for Paul Anka�s recent Verve and Decca Records recordings

 

• Guest Conductor for the Anka show with the Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, Houston Symphony, Nashville Symphony, National Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Pacific Symphony , London Symphony Orchestra

 

• Live performances with Paul Anka on numerous television shows including The Today Show, Late Night with David Letterman, Good Morning America, The View, Larry King Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and many TV shows in Canada, England, France, Italy, Germany, Japan and Argentina

 

• Music director and Sax/woodwinds on Classic Sony , My Way, Paul Anka, Decca Records 2007

 

• Conductor and sax soloist on award-winning recording  Rock Swings, Paul Anka, Verve Records/Universal Music Group, 2005

 

• Producer and arranger for three award-winning recordings through my independent record company, Jazz Cat Productions. Most recent CD, Kind of Blue and Pink has aired on approximately 100 radio stations throughout the world

 

• Experienced clinician in jazz and woodwinds at all levels from elementary through post-graduate students, including Cal Poly San Luis Obisbo, Monterey Peninsula College, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Sonoma State University, Humboldt State University and Ventura County Public Schools.

 

• Performed with legendary musicians such as Carmen McRae, Clare Fischer, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Natalie Cole, Johnny Mathis, John Pattitucci, and many more

 

• Multi-instrumentalist and arranger for over 100 live broadcasts of The Toni Tennille Show,nationally syndicated television.

 

 


 

 

 


Jon rehersing London Symphony Orchestra and Paul Anka 2011
Jon Crosse and The Paul Anka Band, Las Vegas