Jon Goble

As briefly outlined in Laurie Hornsby's book, 'Brum Rocked On' , (2003), GSM, (ISBN 0-9536951-5-8), Jon's musical career began back in the 60's midlands R'n'B scene playing organ in a band with drummer Bill Ward and Guitarist Tony Iomi (the co-founders of Black Sabbath), and the house band at Birminghams first all night club - The Pitch. On returning to England,following a twelve month tour of Europe and residencies in Madrid and Frankfurt with the R'n'B Band FIRE, Jon played electric piano and organ with Kit Packhams Sudden Jump Band, The Mick Clarke Blues Band, Ex Manfred Mann Guitarist Steve Waller's Overdrive, & Hershey and the 12 Bars. Jon played piano in (ex Rolling Stone pianist Ian Stewart's band Rocket 88), performed on BBC Television with singer/songwriter Helen Webb, led his own organ trio at Greenwhich and Soho Jazz Festivals and was resident house pianist at London venues : The Space, Tufnell Park Tavern, and the Zanzibar. Jon studied jazz piano with Simon Purcell (Professor of jazz and improvisation Royal College of Music) Howard Riley (Goldsmiths College) and Gareth Williams (Middlesex University) and studied music workshop skills with Phil Mullen at Goldsmiths College whilst working alongside people with long term mental health difficulties at Tower Hamlets MIND. For the past three years Jon has been resident pianist playing two nights a week with bassist Phil Antonia at one of Londons top Time Out recognised gastrobars - the Dove FreeHouse & Kitchen, Broadway Market. The music on this site is taken from two recordings at the premises, one in 2005 with the trio AGM comprising Phil Antonia (bs) Ian McKenzie (drms) and Jon on piano, the other in 2007 with Juliette Chatterton (vcls) Kevin Dunford (bs).The knowledge, that the true hallmark of a jazz musician was their ability to compose, haunted Jon for most of his musical life and contributed to his feelings of musical inadequacy. After many years of experimenting, giving up, trying again, and voluminous scraps of discarded paper covered in seemingly incoherent and futile attempts at writing down musical ideas, Jon finally discovered a means by which to organise the music within. Showing that ' it's never too late to learn', at the time of writing, Jon is currently making final preparations to record six original compositions under the title - Bluescape.