Since first arriving in Los Angeles in 2014, trombonist, composer, and Davis, CA native Jon Hatamiya has firmly established himself as one of LA's go-to creative and improvising musicians, particularly on the trombone. Jon's work as a sideman spans the breadth of LA's vast music scene, with performance and recording credits as wide ranging from Louis Cole (GRAMMY nominated in 2024), Knower, David Binney, Logan Kane, Luca Alemanno, Paul Cornish, and Jacob Mann, to Michael Bublé (GRAMMY Winning in 2023), Bob Mintzer, Ryan DeWeese's RAD Jazz Orchestra, and Jason "Spicy G" Goldman. Previously based in New York, Jon has also played lead trombone with the Kyle Athayde Dance Party since 2013, and performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.

Jon is active as a bandleader, composer/arranger, and educator, leading the Jon Hatamiya Big Band (with

headline performances at Angel City Jazz Festival and Minaret Winter Jazz Festival), as well as other small group projects. His debut album as a leader More Than Anything was released on Orenda Records in early 2020.

His work as a composer and arranger (beyond in his own groups) includes commissions from Los Angeles trombone quartet Skinny Lips and the Sound Malfunction, Oakwood Brass, SFJAZZ, Fernando Pullum Center, the Third Herd Orchestra (Kyoto, Japan), the Los Angeles Jazz Society, and numerous

high school and college level big bands around the world. Jon's arrangements have been performed by such major artists as Michael McDonald, John Mayer, Aloe Blacc, Jhene Aiko, the Earth Wind and Fire Horns, and Jackson Browne.

Jon is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music, University of Southern California, and the prestigious

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance (now known as the Herbie Hancock Institute). He is currently the instructor of jazz trombone at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where he also directs the Thornton Honors Combo and Concert Jazz Orchestra.