Christine Jones (singer)

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Christine Jones (born May 9, 1944 as Christine Zacher in Teplitz-Schönau ; † February 13, 2017 ) was a blues singer, arranger, Fluxus artist, gallery owner and producer.

Life

The daughter of an architect and a teacher grew up in Salzburg and, at the request of her parents, studied art education with Robin C. Andersen at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Jones completed this course in 1967 with the title Magistra Artium . She then studied ancient American studies with Gerd Kutscher at the Free University in Berlin until 1971 . The first contacts with jazz come from this time . Her path as a singer first led her to Barcelona, ​​London and Paris via Fatty George and the American Folk Blues Festival. In the local " Blue Note " she began to work with the jazz musicians Kenny Clarke , Nathan Davis and Pony Poindexter . She was discovered by Horst Lippmann and taken under contract. Count Basie wrote a letter of recommendation for her. The German music and culture journalist Siegfried Schmidt-Joos wrote: “She sings the blues of her own life; their music gets under the skin of the audience. Your lyrics are pictorial verses by a human being who has something to convey to others. "

In the 1970s Berlin became her home, and there were appearances with Leo Wright , Duke Ellington , Dexter Gordon , Eugene Cicero, Fritz Pauer and Carmell Jones , whom she married and with whom she had a daughter Stella Jones .

Ten years later and after the divorce, she returned to Vienna and married Klaus-Peter Schrammel (a great-grandson of Johann Schrammel ). Their daughter Isabella was born.

In 1980 she founded the band JONESMOBILe. The Austrian jazz scene took part in their first album, Jonesmobile . Some time later, it came together with guitarist Karl Ratzer for playing back Wow (1988) and together with the painter Christian Ludwig Attersee album apples of love .

The jazz historian Klaus Schulz said of Jones at the time: “Jones is not an exclusive blues singer, some of her songs catch the ear like popular hits. But she is also not a pop singer, she simply cannot stand a label because she integrates various contemporary sounds into her music. "

With I Don't Believe , she and her ensemble conquered the Austrian charts as well as the White House in Washington and the Vatican. In 1999 the JONESMOBILe received the Award of Merit of the South Pacific Song Contest for Very Sometimes People . In 1984, together with her husband Klaus-Peter Schrammel, the Vienna KUNST> KANZLEI was established as part of Yedermann Productions . In this way she created a kind of continuation of the art salons from the 19th and early 20th centuries. For Jones, who is not only a singer, but also committed to the Fluxus movement from the very beginning , this institution is the linchpin of the overlapping and interlocking of various forms of art and life. Fluxus artists such as Daniel Spoerri , Dick Higgins , Christo , Coco Gordon , Alison Knowles , Joe Jones , Padhi Frieberger and Ben Vautier found their first presentation platform in Austria at KUNST> KANZLEI. Jones' work found its home here.

The Austrian cultural scientist Dieter Schrage said of Jones: “Because she is neither a musician nor a writer; neither visual artist nor philosopher; neither dancer nor actress; neither creator nor recipient; neither E nor U. Christine Jones is the sum of all of this. It is a small, dazzling Interart power package in itself. A fast-paced, bustling piece of total work of art not based on the noble, serious century dimension of the total artisans Richard Wagner , Arnold Schönberg or Hermann Nitsch , but here and now, poppy and bright for the minute. "

Discography

  • 1965: Christine spirituals, folk songs, blues. LP CBS 62626
  • 1981: Christi Ne Jones - Jonesmobile. LP YM 24581
  • 1982: sleep, sleep, sleep. Single YM 119872
  • 1983: Christmas for two - Attersee & Christine Jones. LP YM 119872
  • 1983: Hello. Single Worldwide Rec./Echo 119382
  • 1988: Summertime - Christine Jones feat. Karl Ratzer. Single YM 119872
  • 1988: Trinity - Christine Jones. Maxi-Single YM 150044-1
  • 1988. Wow! - Christine Jones. CD YM 9544
  • 1992: Very Sometimes People. Maxi-CD YM G 9216-2
  • 1994: Aut of Austria Sampler. CD RMC 150002
  • 1996: Christine Jones - Live at EGA. CD YM11916
  • 1996: Christine Jones & the Jonesmobile - Narrative Jazz. Maxi CD YM 12507
  • 1997: Christine Jones - Jonestones. CD YM 9871-2
  • 2000: Christine Jones - Tamin Bacon. CD YM 12508
  • 2001: Christine & Stella Jones - La Chica Evelvn. CD YM 77200
  • 2002: Jonesmobile in the Ziegelstadl. CD YM 195201
  • 2003: Summertime - That Was Then. Compilation CD UMG 980113
  • 2003: Summertime - This ts Now. Compilation CD UMG 980854
  • 2004: Best of Christine Jones. CD UMG 986645
  • 2004: Nlghtmares - Jonesmobile. Single CD YM 08154711
  • 2004: Christine Jones - Look Here Blues. CD YM 91301
  • 2005: Female - Verve Impressions. Compilation CD UMC 983300
  • 2005: Christine Jones / Aaron Wonesch-Jonesch. CD ORF 411
  • 2010: Saxo Son I Schrammel Ton I Christine Jones. CD YM 1952
  • 2011: Apples of Love - Attersee & Christine Jones. CD YM 13411
  • 2014: Jonesmobile 33 - Live. CD YM 3033

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at: Austrian jazz singer Christine Jones dead ; accessed on February 14, 2017
  2. ↑ Jazz singer Christine Jones died derstandard.at, February 14, 2017, accessed February 16, 2017.
  3. ↑ nicebox333: "Apples of Love" - ​​Medley by Attersee & Jones youtube.com, video 3:16 min, September 9, 2011, accessed February 16, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zacher, Christine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Blues and jazz singer, arranger, Fluxus artist, gallery owner, producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz-Schönau
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2017