[4] Jonah Parzen-Johnson performs regularly as a solo saxophonist and his music for solo baritone saxophone and analog synthesizer, balances simple melodic passages with extended techniques including circular breathing, multiphonics, and overtones.

[8] His self-assembled synthesizer is built to follow the volume of his saxophone and a set of pedals he plays with his feet.

[9] In June 2015, Parzen-Johnson released his second solo album featuring saxophone & his custom synthesizer, and spent two months touring 34 US cities in support of the record.

In an exercise to connect with people, and create empathy in all of the cities he visited, Parzen-Johnson collected three reasons to live in each city, and in November 2015 he released them as a paperback book called Three Reasons to Live Here.

[11] Unlike his previous solo albums, this release was fully acoustic, featuring just baritone saxophone and flute with extended techniques like circular breathing and multi-phonics.