JC Jones Double-bassist

Jean Claude Jones was born in Sfax, Tunisia and moved to France as a young child. As a teen, he simultaneously taught himself to play lead and bass guitar. At the age of 17 he began working in professional pop music and jazz bands. In 1978 he moved to the US where he pursued formal music studies, graduating from the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he majored in jazz guitar. He continued his studies at the Music Institute of Technology in Los Angeles. In 1983 he emigrated to Israel where he became a key player in the newly developing jazz scene. After several years he made a definitive switch from bass guitar to double bass, and became involved in free improvised music. Over time he added electronics and computer-manipulated sounds to his musical arsenal. The driving force behind his work is "finding my space."

JC Jones is an esteemed music educator and served as chair of the Jazz Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance between 1996 and 2000. He has performed and recorded with many leading international and Israeli musicians, dancers, poets and vocal artists, including Stan Getz, Red Rodney Dave Liebman. Since the 1990s he has appeared with John Zorn, Anthony Coleman, Ned Rothenberg, Joey Baron, Marc Ribot, Ikue Mori, Mike Patton, Damon Smith, Joelle Leandre, Slava Ganelin, Steve Horenstein, Albert Beger, Arkady Gotesman, Avishai Cohen, Ariel Shibolet, Harold Rubin, Victoria Hanna, Josef Sprinzak, Amos Hetz, Anat Shamgar , Felix Ruckert, Dieter Hautkamp, Julyen Hamilton, Mark Dresser, Barre Phillips, Bert Turetzky, Irina Kalina Goudeva.

JC's ongoing projects include Deep Tones for Peace telematic performances, the Kadima Triptych Series featuring double-bass masters and Myelination (the myelin chemical sounds and improvised music CD project) with the participation of Steve Horenstein, Harold Rubin, Ariel Shibolet, Yoni Silver, Yael Tai, JC and jazz poet Jake Marmer. see more at ninger.com

Coming up in 2012
Music-ular Dynamics
A Multi Media performance featuring the Myelin Chemical Sounds / Live Improvised Music and Dance / Light Graffiti
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Contact:
Email: jcjones@zahav.net.il or jeanclaude.kadima@gmail.com
deeptonesforpeace.org
kadimacollective.com
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