Jon Jang (Chinese: 胡 健 良; pinyin: Hú Jiànliáng; born March 11, 1954) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader.

"[2][3][1] Jang has recorded many albums as a composer-bandleader and pianist, performing with Max Roach, David Murray (saxophonist), James Newton, Francis Wong, and Fred Ho, among numerous others.

Concerto for Jazz Ensemble and Taiko was one of Jang's first major works of this period, referencing the Redress and Reparations movement.

Additionally, Jang learned from Black mentors such as Max Roach, Amiri Baraka, Horace Tapscott, and Wendell Logan that, as James Baldwin noted, "this music begins on the auction block.

[1][10] Francis Wong describes the latter as a significant breakthrough in exposure for the work they had been cultivating in the early 1990s, noting that although AIR was still too small an organization to receive significant funding, they nonetheless succeeded in finding enough community support to enable performances and recordings that led to this broader exposure and enabled Jang to be signed by the Soul Note record label .

The work is a tribute to Paul Robeson and Mei Lanfang, who Jang praises as "international citizens of the world" who were "not only great artists for the people but they also were outspoken.

"[13] Though often written about by critics as primarily a jazz musician, Jang has also composed notated works for classical performers, and in addition to numerous jazz influences, has cited composers such as William Grant Still as models for his approach to memorializing history and exploring political struggles through musical composition.

"[16] In 2012, Jang was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr./Césár Chavez/Rosa Parks Visiting Professorship at the University of Michigan.