Vince Jones | Artist

Vince Jones is an Australian jazz artist born 1954 in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1964, when Jones was 10 years old, his family moved to Australia where they lived in Wollongong. He is a singer, songwriter, and trumpet, flugelhorn and flumpet player who attributes his love of jazz to hearing Miles Davis's album Sketches of Spain, when he was about 14 and taught himself to play the trumpet. Jones began his career in 1974 as a bebop trumpet player on the club and jazz circuit. In November 1981 Jones recorded his debut album, Watch What Happens, with John Bye producing at Richmond Recorders in Melbourne. Adrian Jackson of Jazz magazine touted Jones as the "new Melbourne jazz star" in June 1982. To-date Jones has released 13 solo studio albums plus a number of collaborations with artists such as Paul Grabowsky, Grace Knight and Kate Ceberano. Standout albums include For All Colours (1984), Tell Me a Secret (1986), Provenance (2015) and the TV soundtrack Come in Spinner (1990) recorded with Grace Knight. Jones' music includes both original material and new contemporary versions of jazz standards. His themes are often love, inequity, injustice, peace and anti-greed. He has sold more than 200,000 albums worldwide and still tours and performs regularly. Currently he is living on the south coast of New South Wales and teaches part-time at the Canberra School of Music and the Australian National University.

Artist Website: wikipedia/Vince_Jones

Featured Albums: Vince Jones

Related Artists: Grace Knight, Paul Grabowsky

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