Guitarist Jonathan Goldberger spent most of his youth on the outskirts of the Everglades in Florida. From there he migrated west to the Rockies where he studied with musical guru Art Lande and played and toured with the cult spacey/bluesy Fat Mama. He found his way to Brooklyn in 2001 where he studied counterpoint and harmony with Paul Caputo, and worked extensively in both the music and film worlds. Goldberger has composed and produced music for two award-winning feature films, Trans and The Hawk is Dying. He performs and tours with artists and bands including Red Baraat, Jim Black, John Zorn, and Joe Russo, among many others, at festivals and venues ranging from The Village Vanguard, Moers Festival, WOMAD festival, and the Capitol Theater to Vienna Konzerthaus and The White House. His own recordings include the acoustic collective Surface to Air and Visitors (with JP Schlegelmilch and Jim Black), one of Rolling Stone’s 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2018. His latest project Selcouth Quartet will be releasing its debut album in the fall of 2023.
Jonathan uses D'addario strings & accessories, Chase Bliss, JAM pedals, Collings guitars, and Linear Tube Audio
old projects/new projects/discography:
simon jermyn / jonathan goldberger / mat maneri / kenny wollesen - (2024 - live at nublu)
selcouth quartet (with joe russo, stuart bogie, john shaw, jg) (2023 - selcouth quartet)
john zorn (with keisuke matsuno, jg, simon jermyn, jim black) (2022 - bagatelles Vol 11 - jim black quartet)
todd sickafoose (2022 - time to 1.5 - soundtrack to threshold)
sonny singh (2022 - chardi kala)
simon jermyn / jonathan goldberger / mat maneri / gerald cleaver - (2021 - live at scholes)
big shapes (jonathon haffner, dave harrington, max jaffe, jg) - (2021 - big shapes vol. 1)
stephen gauci - (2021 - pandemic duets)
jp schlegelmilch / jonathan goldberger / jim black - (2018 - visitors)
pirata (with joe russo, stuart bogie, spencer zahn, dave harrington, jg)
jeff davis band (with eivind opsvick, russ lossing, tony malaby, jg) (2019 - the fastness) (2010 - we sleep outside)
brian adler's shankar (with rob jost, matt moran, santiago leibson, jg) (2019 - fourth dimension)
laushaus (with kyle sanna, mathias kunzli, todd sickafoose, jg) (2019 - laushaus)
superbigmouth (with craig taborn, tony malaby, chris cheek, gerald cleaver, dan reiser, jg, curtis hasselbring, chris lightcap) (2019-SB)
superette (with john medeski, nels cline) (2018 - superette)
red baraat (2015 - livewire), (2017 - bhangra pirates), (2018 - together we sound)
joe russo's hooteroll? + plus! (with erik deutsch, jg, dave harrington, kevin kendrick, stuart bogie, jordan mclean)
jacob garchik's ye olde (with brandon seabrook, mary halvorson, jg, vinnie sperrazza) (2015 - ye olde)
adam hopkins sextet (with devin gray, josh sinton, anna webber, ed rosenberg, jg) (2018 - crickets)
surface to air (with jonti siman, rohin khemani, jg) - (2012 - surface to air)
brian drye's bizingas (with ches smith, Kirk knufke, jg) - (2010 - bizingas), (2015 - eggs up high)
fashionable pop music (with devin gray, chris tordini, ryan ferreira, jg) (2016 - fashionable pop music)
first cousins once removed (adam schatz, sky steele, danny fisher lockhead, jg) (2019 - first cousins once removed)
denver general (with jeff davis, Kirk knuffke, jg)
shoko nagai's tAKE’N sHADOW (with todd reynolds, stomu takeishi, jim black, jg) (2014 - live at roulette)
a big yes and a small no (with kevin kendrick, jonti siman, joe russo, erik deutsch, jg) (2008 - jesus, that looks terrible on you, 2011 - too little, too late, 2018 - mise en abyme)
todd sickafoose's tiny resisters
anna webber quartet (jeff davis, michael bates)
jacob wick's hungry cowboy (with briggan krauss, mike pride) (2013 - dance)
sarah manning's harmonious creature (eyvind kang, rene hart, jerome jennings) (2013 - harmonious creature)
jason mears band (with angie sanchez, kevin farrell, harris eisenstadt) (2013 - book of changes: part 1)
anais mitchell's hadestown (2010 - hadestown)
harris eisenstadt's woodblock prints (2010 - woodblock prints)
josh sinton's holus bolus (2011 - pine barren)
nels andrews (2012 - scrimshaw) (2019 - pigeon and the crow)
david berkeley (2011 - some kind of cure)
erik deutsch band (2009 - hush money)
collapse quartet (ty citerman, yoshie fruchtor, eyal moaz)
edison woods (2018 - shadows of love (feat. shara nova))
scary burton (with jeff davis, kevin kendrick, dave driewitz)
josh roseman group
aj roach and the machines of the pleistocene
marcelo lupis' love songs for robots
adam klipple's sneak
tim kuhl's doomsayer (2011 - doomsayer)
andrew dangelo big band
dave treut trio
ursa minor
american babies
briggan kraus' hungry ghosts
ryan snow's pull
we will build you (with jason rigby and rich johnson)
debug (with andrew d'angelo, aaron siegel)
fat mama
rodriguez (sugarman!)
ron miles
art lande
leni stern