Mike Jones (jazz pianist)
Mike Jones (born August 11, 1962 ) is an American jazz pianist whose stride and swing-oriented playing is influenced by Mike McKenna .
Live and act
Mike Jones started performing professionally when he was ten. On the advice of Oscar Peterson , he studied from 1981-86 at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. There he performed with Herb Pomeroy , Dick Johnson and Gray Sargent . From then on he worked as a studio musician on the Nancy Merrill Show, a daily TV show on the CBS. Jones performed several years in jazz clubs in the northeastern United States, such as the Zinno and Toast in New York City, as well as the Scullers and the Regatta Bar in Boston. In 1993 he released his debut album Oh! On Chiaroscuro Records . Look at Me Now! before, on which Jones performed standards such as " Cocktails for Two ", "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" and "You and the Night and the Music" as a soloist . Live at Steinway Hall followed in 1997, Stretches Out was recorded in Las Vegas in 2001, and Live at the Green Mill in Chicago in 2003 (with Kelly Sill and Tim Davis). From 2002 worked in Las Vegas, where he has since performed with the magician and comedian duo Penn & Teller .
In the 2010s, two trio productions for Capri Records, Plays Well With Others (2012, with Mike Gurrola and Jeff Hamilton ) and Roaring (2015, with Katie Thiroux and Matt Witek), on which he like jazz tracks from the 1920s " If I Had You ", "I'll See You in CUBA" and " Yes Sir, That's My Baby " interpreted. He also played with Keter Betts ( Live at the East Coast Jazz Festival 2000 ) and Laurie Bordonaro. In the field of jazz , he was involved in ten recording sessions from 1993 to 2015.
Web links
- Web presence
- Portrait at Capri Records
- Marc Myers: Mike Jones: Pre-Show Piano. Jazzwax, March 19, 2018, accessed March 19, 2018 .
- Mike Jones at Allmusic (English)
- interview
Individual evidence
- ^ Howard Reich: Penn & Teller's Mike Jones 'Roaring' at the piano. Chiaco Tribune, October 26, 2016, accessed March 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 12, 2018)
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| SURNAME | Jones, Mike |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1962 |