A native New Yorker, acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Jonny King grew up in the city’s jazz clubs, participating first as a fan and then as a performer.  Before he was a teenager, King had already performed onstage with Dizzy Gillespie and appeared on television at the piano alongside his early idol, Earl “Fatha” Hines.  By the time he turned 20, he was already sitting in with Art Blakey and playing his first gigs in New York’s many restaurants and clubs.

King is also a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University and cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and combines life as a performer and composer with practice as a trial lawyer concentrating in intellectual property.

King brings his Jonny King Trio plays this weekend to The Delaware Highlands Conservancy's Taste of The Harvest event. He spoke to Farm & Country's Rosie Starr.