Joe Armon-Jones

Joe Armon-Jones (* 1994 in Oxfordshire ) is a British fusion musician ( keyboards , composition ) who is active in the jazz , R&B and hip-hop scene in London.

Live and act

Armon-Jones comes from a family of musicians. His parents had their own band in which his mother sang and his father played the piano. At the age of six he began taking piano lessons. When he was twelve he learned to improvise. He came to jazz through progressive rock and decided early on to become a professional musician. From 2011 he attended the Bachelor's degree in Jazz Piano at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance , which he graduated with honors in 2016.

While still studying Armon-Jones played in the Tomorrow's Warriors to Gary Crosby and served as pianist for Jasmine Powers Stories & Rhymes . In 2016 he was a founding member of the award-winning quintet Ezra Collective , with whom he presented several EPs and the album You Can't Steal My Joy and toured repeatedly until 2020. He also played the piano and other keyboard instruments in the bands of Nubya Garcia and Theon Cross . In addition, he leads his own bands, which are said to be a “casual and cool redefinition of Jazz & Soul ”; In 2017 he presented his EP Idiom (on which both Maxwell Owin and Oscar Jerome can be heard), which followed in 2018 his debut album Starting Today with guests As Elevator , Ego Ella May and Oscar Jerome on Gilles Peterson 's Brownswood label . In 2019 he released the EP Icy Roads under his own name and then the album Turn to Clear View with a studio band that included Boyd, Jerome, Dylan Jones and Garcia; Guest singers were Georgia Anne Muldrow , As HE, Jhest and Obongjayar. He has also worked with Daniel Casimir , Makaya McCraven , Moses Boyd , the SEED Ensemble and Pharoahe Monch . He can also be heard on Binker Goldings Abstractions of Reality Past & Incredible Feathers (2019) and the album Rejoice (2020) by Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela .

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Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Joe Armon-Jones: “Reading a review is like someone coming up to you on the street and saying, 'Your kid's ugly!'” (NME)
↑ Brief portrait (Jazzclub Tonne 2020)
↑ One to Watch. In: The Guardian . June 29, 2019, accessed May 10, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Armon-Jones, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British fusion musician (keyboards, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	1994
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oxfordshire

[NME-1] Joe Armon-Jones: “Reading a review is like someone coming up to you on the street and saying, 'Your kid's ugly!'” (NME)

[2] Brief portrait (Jazzclub Tonne 2020)

[3] One to Watch. In: The Guardian . June 29, 2019, accessed May 10, 2020 .