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Producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion grew up in a musical family: his father was director of the Yale concert and marching bands, his mother sang in jazz bands, and his siblings, Randy (a conductor/arranger in L.A.) and Laurie (a violinist), were both avid music students. Young Jon didn’t deal with instruction or practice well, but his natural affinity for improvisation and melody more than made up for his impatience. Unwilling to conform to the conventional school system, Brion attended special education class at Hamden High School in New Haven, CT, and the day he turned 17, he left school for good. Moving to Boston in 1987, the young musician formed many bonds that he would keep long into his professional career, including producer Mike Denneen (owner of Q Division, Boston’s premier studio and record label) and ‘Til Tuesday vocalist Aimee Mann. Also while there, Brion tuned his improvisational musical abilities: “I used to watch TV with an unplugged electric guitar, on the couch, and commercials would come on and I’d try to play along. It was one of the prime things I concerned myself with for several years, getting to the point where if I heard it, I could play it. Then I started working on getting my brain to do multiple thin...
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Phone Call
Row
Peer Pressure
Bookstore
Collecting Things
Spotless Mind
Strings That Tie To You
Showtime
Down The Drain
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I Heart Huckabees
Punch-Drunk Love
Magnolia
Meaningless
Magnolia Soundtrack
Punch Drunk Love
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