Victor Jones
Victor F. Jones (born September 25, 1954 in Newark , New Jersey ) is an American jazz musician ( drums , trumpet ).
Live and act
Jones, influenced by a television program with Louis Armstrong , chose the trumpet as an instrument in fifth grade. He took lessons for ten years and initially appeared on the trumpet (including in the symphony orchestra of the Elmwood Elementary School in East Orange, prizes and awards). From the age of twelve, he also played drums (including in rock bands), which later became his main instrument. He complemented his studies at Berklee College of Music with private lessons with Elvin Jones , Freddie Waits and Ed Blackwell . From 1973 he was touring the USA and Europe with Lou Donaldson , then with the singer Johnny Mathis and other musicians. In 1977 he became a member of Stan Getz's band , with whom he went on concert tours around the world and participated in the recordings of albums such as Children of the World, White Heat and The Great Jazz Gala .
He then toured with George Adams / Don Pullen (1981), James Moody (1982), Freddie Hubbard , Ramsey Lewis , Gato Barbieri (1986), Stanley Clarke , Phyllis Hyman , Stanley Turrentine (1989), Masabumi Kikuchi , Mino Cinelu (1990), Gonzalo Rubalcaba / Charlie Haden (1991), Chaka Khan , Mal Waldron and Jimmy Scott (2001).
Jones has led his own groups since the 1980s. In 1995 his first album was released as a band leader, Visible Sound Groove , which has been followed by two more. In his group R & B-Bop Band , with which he toured the USA and Japan, he integrated dance music with the improvisational demands of art music .
As a sideman he worked on more than 100 albums. He has been involved in recordings by musicians such as Ed Schuller , Rhoda Scott , Michel Petrucciani ( Music ), Dizzy Gillespie ( Endlessly ), Woody Shaw ( Setting Standards ), Jimmy McGriff ( City Lights ), Valery Ponomarev , Richie Cole , Joe Farrell , Alex Foster , Ronnie Cuber, Stanley Turrentine and the Mingus Big Band involved.
Jones teaches at the New School in New York and the Newark Community Center For the Arts .
Discographic notes
- Visible Sound Groove with Barry Finnerty , Alex Foster, Conrad Herwig , Joe Locke , Jay Rodriques , Gene Williams , 1995
- Cafe Trio: Live at Bradley’s in New York City with David Kikoski and Essiet Okon Essiet , 1996
- Culturversy , 2003
Lexigraphic entries
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
Web links
- Discography as a sideman at Allmusic
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jones, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones, Victor F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newark (New Jersey) |