Jon Brion

Producer, all-purpose studio musician, arranger, songwriter, and film composer Jon Brion has been a high-profile yet behind-the-scenes fixture on the Los Angeles music scene since the mid-'90s. After playing in bands in home state of Connecticut, then Boston in the late '80s (including touring with Aimee Mann's group 'Til Tuesday), he became an in-demand session musician and producer on the West Coast. His extensive résumé includes acts such as Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Rufus Wainwright, David Byrne, and Elliott Smith. Following his Grammy-nominated work with Mann on the soundt...