Giver. If you had to pick just one word to describe Jon Christopher Long, who passed away too young at 60 in his sleep last Friday, April 20 from coronary disease, that would be it. He was a multi-dimensional force in the Toronto and GTA music community and in all of the many roles he…
The following tributes are excerpts from just some of the many posted on social media and on the Legacy.com online tribute page by family, friends, band mates and clients of the late Jon Long. More will be added when the Musical Legacies Online Museum site is created. [See more details at end of this post.]…
The funeral for much loved music booster Jon Long will take place on Friday, April 27 at 3 p.m., his family is set to announce in a death notice to be published Wed. April 25. An autopsy into his unexpected but peaceful death in his sleep the morning of Friday April 20 found that…
Shock waves are spreading through the GTA music community as news is shared of the unexpected passing of Jon Long overnight the evening of Thursday April 19 or early Friday April 20. A close friend of Jon’s told me this afternoon that he had seen Jon twice for coffees earlier this week and that the…
For more about Laurel Long see also cover feature from to-nite #035 in 1994.
*5-8> Nelson Denis @ Frank’s Pasta, 42 King Street E., Cobourg ~eclectic mix (Folk, Jazz, soft Rock, Latin) 5-8> Roberta Hunt Jazz & Blues Band @ Gate 403, 403 Roncesvalles Ave., TO W. ~Jazz 6> Corin Raymond @ Cameron House (front), 408 Queen St. W., TO ~Rootsy Pop 6:30> David Buckbinder’s Israeli Jazz Showcase…
If you were the betting kind familiar with the history of music promoter and versatile drummer Jon Long and the longtime live music room Black Swan at 154 Danforth Ave., you could be collecting some winnings right about now. To this writer it was as inevitable as the fact that, no matter how bleak…
Former credit manager for Long & McQuade Musical Instruments and longtime TO music promoter and versatile drummer Jon Long is rolling the dice. He’s gambling that he can parlay his longstanding Danforth Jam events at Black Swan together with his energy, invaluable industry experience and contacts into an enterprise that can help musicians build audiences…
Promoter, drum host and jammer Jon Long tells us that he’s looking forward to his latest Saturday afternoon 1-5 jam at Black Swan June 22 in part because his former lady friend Teresa Hart has told him she’ll be stopping in to play along with a fellow former member of the fem-Punk band Fidget, Elissa…
Kensington jam Friday will be for street-level musicians He may be known as part of a music instruments company that’s steadily moved in a corporatist direction over the past several years but Jon Long’s heart —and actions— are firmly with the street-level musician. Long, in fact, is these days only very peripherally involved with the…
Not only is Jon Long’s Danforth Jam back at the Black Swan Tavern (154 Danforth Ave. near Broadview) it’s a more happening event than it’s ever been! It appears the move from Wednesday evenings to a bi-weekly (including this afternoon) 1-5 slot in the beautifully renovated upstairs lounge was the right call. Best of all,…
The human body is an amazing and often unpredictable thing. When it’s working like it’s supposed to, it is magnificent, but when it’s busted it makes everything in our lives feel worthless. And when the injuries also affect one’s brain, life can feel very hopeless at times. But one of the most wondrous things about…
