Cleon’s large array of professional skills includes; piano, keyboards, vocals, composing, arranging, producing and musical directing. Cleon is proficient across various styles of contemporary music including, Jazz, Latin, pop, funk, soul, r ’n’ b, mowtown and hip hop. Cleon’s professional career has seen him perform in countless venues, jazz festivals and hotspots in Australia and over-seas including QPAC, Bennett’s Lane (Melb), The Ellington Jazz Club (Perth), The Brisbane Powerhouse, The Brisbane Jazz Club and The Gold Coast Art’s Centre to just name a few.
Cleon has performed with numerous local and international bands and artists including Guy Sebastian, Andrew De Silva, Darren Percival, Rob Mills, Angie Narayan, Vivian Sessoms (NYC), George Washingmachine (Sydn), The Brisbane Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Chukale, Osmar “Chicky” Salazar (Cuba), Lazaro Ernesto Pompa (Cuba) and Ingrid James to name a few. Since 2007, Cleon has released 3 original jazz albums which all received amazing reviews and radio airplay on many stations including Australia’s premier radio jazz show “Jazztrack” with Mal Stanley. Cleon’s latest and most acclaimed album “Techni-colour rain” was recorded with engineering royalty John Haeny at his private home studio in Tasmania.
After an illustrious career with a long line of credits including The Doors, Duke Ellington, Jaco Pastorius and Weather Report, John came out of retirement to work on this special project with Cleon. Cleon’s most recent work as a musical director, band leader and arranger includes the smash hit cabaret production ‘Boy and Girl’ @ The Tivoli, ‘Songwoman’, an original show by Gerianne Rudd and Darren Percival @ The Brisbane Powerhouse and the annual ‘Susu Mamas ball’ in Papua New Guinea