Jon M. Waxman, Esq.

JON M. WAXMAN, Esq. has been practicing entertainment law and managing artists in music, and television and film scoring for twenty-five years. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and is the author of, "Performance Rights in Sound Recordings," published by The Texas Law Review and The Patent Law Review.



Jon's personal management clients have included, Bobby McFerrin, Joan Osborne, John Cafferty, composer and performer of the score for the motion picture, Eddie and the Cruisers, Carla Bley, Sylvia Simms, Astrud Gilberto, jazz pianist, Jean-Michel Pilc, and film and television composer, Michael Whalen.



As an attorney, Jon has represented a diverse range of artists including, Ravi Shankar, Paul Pena (Genghis Blues, T-Bone Walker, Steve Miller’s ”Jet Airliner”), Kongar-ol Ondar (Tuvan Throat Singer, Warner Bros. Records), Zachary Richard, Hassan Hakmoun (Real World Records), Malandro Records, Paul Winter's Living Music Records, Manny Oquendo’s Libre, Neshama Carlebach (Six Degrees Records), the Estate of Schlomo Carlebach, Kenny G., Dickie Betts (Allman Bros. Band), Johnny Winter, Albert Collins, The Blues Brothers, Tim Reynolds (Dave Matthews Band), Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart), Victor Wooten (Compass Records, Bela Fleck Band), Sid McGuiness (David Letterman Band), Steve Smith (Tone Center Records, Journey), Marshall Crenshaw, Koko Taylor (Alligator Records), Roy Buchanan, David Bromberg, Lonnie Mack, Link Wray, Slave (Atlantic Records), The Harry Smith Archives, The Basement Boys (Crystal Waters, Ultra Nate), Jellybean Benitez (Madonna), The Feelies, The db's, Leon Pendarvis (Saturdy Night Live Band), Kenny Vance (American Hot Wax, Eddie & the Cruisers), Elliot Scheiner (the Eagles), Joe Ferla, Rob Mounsey (Steely Dan), Hal Willner (Lou Reed, Maryanne Faithfull), The Saturday Night Live Band, The Estate of Billy Stewart (Chess Records).



Thelonious Monk, Gil Evans, Phil Woods, Jackie McLean, Jack Dejohnette, Abbey Lincoln, Chucho Valdes (Blue Note Records), Regina Carter (Verve Records), The Jason Lindner Big Band (Stretch Records), Claudia Acuna (Verve Records), Dave Valentin (GRP Records), Steve Turre (Telarc Records), John Faddis, Dave Liebman, Oregon (ECM Records), Gil Goldstein, Randy Brecker (Concord Records), Steve Khan (Columbia Records), John Abercrombe (ECM Records), John Scofield (Verve Records), Steve Kuhn (ECM Records), Bob Mintzer (The Yellowjackets), Mike Mainieri (Arista/Novus Records), Cecil McBee, Eddie Gomez, Larry Coryell, Richie Beirach, Illinois Jacquet (Atlantic Records), Al Grey, Danny Barker, George Avakian, The Montreux Jazz Festival for television broadcast, Third Floor Media, Inc. (Helene Greece), Digi-Rom, the Mary Lou Williams Foundation, Alligator Records, Jazz Magnet Records, and Muse Records.



Jon began performing professionally as a musician in the early 1960's. At the invitation of master drummer, Art Blakey, Jon's band of 13 year-olds, Jonny Waxman and the Offbeats performed at the famous jazz corner of the world, BIRDLAND. During the mid-1960's, Jon was signed as a recording artist to Columbia Records. Following his short-lived career as a rock star, he cut his hair, joined the marketing departments of Columbia Records and Epic Records as a product manager and worked with the legendary John Hammond coordinating the original re-issue of the complete recordings of Bessie Smith and Robert Johnson.



While attending law school during the early 1970's, Jon worked as a correspondent for DownBeat Magazine and as a music writer for the Philadelphia Daily News. For CBS Records, he executive produced the first re-issue of the historic Candid Records label, featuring classic performances by artists such as Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Phil Woods, Booker Little, Booker Ervin, Abbey Lincoln, Lightnin' Hopkins and Otis Spann.



Jon has also served as an executive producer for Atlantic Records and has lectured on entertainment law at the New York and Benjamin Cardozo Schools of Law, the New School Jazz and Contemporary Music Program, the Skidmore College Program for the Performing Arts, the Songwriters Guild and at Knit Media’s Jazz School at Jazze.com. He served as moderator of the Management Panel for the JazzTimes Convention in 1994, was a member of the Legal Panel for the NAIRD (National Association of Independent Record Distributors and Manufacturers) Convention in 1995, was a member of the panel entitled, Dollars and Cents at the Convention of the International Association of Jazz Educators in 2000 and served as a Judge for the Mixx Magazine Indie Music Showcase in 1997.



Jon served on the Board of Governors for two consecutive terms and was an alternate trustee for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and is on the Board of Advisors for the New School University Jazz and Contemporary Music Program and the National Jazz Museum, to be located in Harlem. He is also a member of the International Association of Jazz Educators, the Jazz Foundation of America, the Universal Jazz Coalition, the World Music Institute, Afropop and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance. Jon is currently practicing law and executive producing music, film and television projects.



During his spare time, he listens to music.