Wayne Jones - Closed For The Holidays

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 23:40
Size: 54,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:40)  1. Closed For the Holidays (feat. Rick Braun & Mike Macarthur)
(3:45)  2. Feeling Playful
(4:09)  3. Barcelona
(4:05)  4. Children Who Lose Their Way (feat. Rick Braun)
(3:43)  5. Perfect Mistakes
(4:15)  6. Strawberry On a String

You may have heard the phrase musician’s musician! You know the type … they’re such established players in the scene that everyone wants them on their sessions. Australian bass player, songwriter, arranger, and performer Wayne Jones fits the term perfectly. He has played with so many of Australia’s leading artists over such a long period of time. However, It took until 2006 for Jones to show his true colours with the release of his first solo album ‘Forgotten Melody’. Luckily for music lovers we only had to wait until 2009 for the follow up ‘Saturday Street’, further cementing Jones’ reputation as a world-class instrumentalist and tunesmith. Since Jones presented us with Saturday Street, he sold his much loved vintage car, packed his bags and traversed the world spreading the word on his music, resulting in club gigs in Tokyo, performances on the foreshore in Florida, chart topping tracks in the Canary Islands and has achieved airplay from radio stations at all points of the global compass. Now in 2011, Jones unleashes his finest work yet, the six track recording ‘Closed For The Holidays’. The folks at iTunes define it as it an EP, in vinyl-speak, you’d call it an album. Call the format whatever you want, the music is yet another classy collection of high-quality smooth/contemporary jazz grooves featuring Jones’ signature sound. Closed For The Holidays includes an incredible array of international musicians supporting Wayne on the recording including sought-after US trumpet player Rick Braun, Mike MacArthur on sax, Fallon J Williams III on drums and percussion, Dave Carter (Keys), Ron Peers (guitar), and Paulo Vargas (percussion). While Jones has accumulated many miles of travel with his music career, his world journey is far from over, in fact it’s only just beginning. Yet with Closed For The Holidays you can’t help but feel he’s arrived anyway! Closed For the Holidays is ideal ammunition for Jones to take his music to the world with confidence and that’s what he intends to do. The future looks bright with stand-alone gigs, festivals and promotional activity planned in territories where Jones has already established a name for himself. “It’s a great progression,” Jones says of the new album. “The last two were good and I think I have learned things while over in the States and I feel I have progressed in my writing and playing. Having the involvement of Mike on sax and Rick Braun on trumpet … I love the players that usually play with me but I was after a different flavour this time. I really have a great feeling about this one. I feel I have arrived.” By Greg Phillips, editor Australian Musician magazine. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/waynejones3

Personnel:  Wayne Jones on Lead Bass; Rick Braun on Trumpet & Mike MacArthur on Sax.

Closed For The Holidays

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Wayne Jones - Saturday Street

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:52
Size: 119,2 MB
Art: Front

(5:33)  1. Strictly Dan
(4:22)  2. Saturday Street
(4:43)  3. Back In Five
(4:42)  4. Slow & Mellow
(4:46)  5. Sneaky Pete
(4:10)  6. MK3
(4:44)  7. Time Traveler
(3:46)  8. Latin Tyme
(5:20)  9. Hiraeth
(4:42) 10. I'm In the Mood (Feat. Cheryl Beattie)

It is paved with spiky, spine-tingling bass lines, the Saturday Street that Australian jazz artist Wayne Jones walks on. Saturday Street, Jones' latest album, is a glistening summer soundtrack that bathes in the pulsating energy of city life, from sun-drenched strolling to a midnight slow jam at a club. On the title track Jones' bass feels like a living entity; it throbs with vigor and swagger while jumpy piano adds further electricity. The forcefulness of Jones' bass playing is easily the most recognizable aspect of his style. On “Slow & Mellow," Jones is downright funky on what is essentially a romantic ballad; his bass literally leaps out of the speakers. According to Jones, the two-fisted punch of his bass is rooted in his original desire to become a drummer. “I used to have a passion for playing drums in my early teens," Jones recalled. “I started playing bass around 1969 after an industrial accident left me unable to hold a drumstick properly. I turned professional in 1976. It's funny how fate works. I much prefer bass as I now have both rhythm and melody to enjoy. I guess I used the passion I had for the drums and applied it to the bass." Jones displays extraordinary command of the bass in Saturday Street, and it may cause one to assume that he received formal training with the instrument; however, that was not the case. “Like many of my generation I was self-taught," Jones revealed. “I learned from records. I would listened to a few bars, lift the arm off the turntable, copy the phrases, and then put it back in roughly the same spot for the next bit. Eventually I had to teach myself modes, scales, and arpeggios. I'm sure glad I did as these are the tools I use to draw from when I play."~ Lauren Rogers https://news.allaboutjazz.com/australian-jazz-artist-wayne-jones-walks-on-saturday-street-with-spine-tingling-bass-lines.php

Saturday Street

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