Surf-jazz meets rock n’ roll

Sending out supersonic love through a mixture of old-home melodies and psychedelic rock, John Paris is decidedly carving out a new niche for the hot-dog-eatin’, pot-smokin’ young Americans who just love a good night out of guitar worship and lyrical delight delivered à la carte.

In the last 10 years, he's lived in New York City, Berlin, Nashville, and Charleston, bringing his music to stages as diverse as post-soviet rock clubs and Nashville honky-tonks. Now, based out of Charlotte, he's building out southeastern tours with both his rock outfit and his Jam Mayer tribute group. His playing has been described as "hot … JP’s impressive guitar work completes the band’s robust energy as they weave from counterpoint into playful improvisation, all the while teasing the audience back to the charm of their folk-sweet-nothing songwriting.”

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1999 - JPH begins classical piano lessons.

2005 - On his 13th birthday, JPH buys drum set with “all of his saved birthday money from Grandma” and subsequently starts middle-school band Loaded Dice with close friends. They play “Sweet Home Alabama” at the school variety show.

2007 - JPH buys acoustic guitar from a friend for $50. He joins high school jazz and rock groups as a guitar player.

2010 - JPH attends Brown University and studies counterpoint, composition, and music theory on top of a major in European Intellectual History.

2013 - JPH begins playing regular circuit of campus frat parties with band The Spicy Withs.

2014 - JPH self-records first EP in university’s recording studio through several all-night sessions. Following graduation, he spends 3 months in Berlin.

2015 - First Opera (EP) is released. P plays release show with his band at The Bowery Electric in New York City.

2016 - The self-titled John Paris (EP) is recorded in Bunker Studio in Brooklyn and is released in August. JPH plays follow-up shows at The Bitter End and Arlene’s Grocery in New York City.

2017 - JPH relocates to Berlin indefinitely.

2018 - JPH plays a host of Berlin rock clubs with new band and dives into the city’s idiosyncratic street music scene.

2020 - JPH returns to the USA and relocates to Nashville.

2021 - JPH builds a new band and plays shows around Nashville, in addition to weekend tours to Chattanooga, Birmingham, and Atlanta.

2022 - JP relocates to Charleston, SC, and begins playing a regular circuit of restaurants, breweries, and beach bars, averaging 15 gigs/month.

2024 - JPH records new album in Nashville recording studio Rukkus Room, and takes a performance hiatus.

2025 - JPH relocates to Charlotte, NC.