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J.C. Jones

Hosting Myself

By J.C. Jones

Label: Kadima Collective
Released: 2007
Track listing: Coming Live Episodes; Cut and Past 18 Studio Short Episodes Which Can Be Listened to At Random; Going Live Episodes.

J.C. Jones: Hosting Myself

by Karl A.D. Evangelista
March 7, 2007

Outline and mien peg J.C. Jones as the prototypal improvising bassist--long and lanky, slumped into his instrument with a sort of focal intensity, like a surgeon--or a butcher--teasing at thick guts. The cover photo of Hosting Myself has all the bearings of an ancient iconology, and there are surely mystical undertones to that title--as if Jones's ...

Duos II

By J.C. Jones

Label: Kadima Collective
Released: 2005
Track listing: Petit Echo/Impro 1 & Pizsa (with Ned Rothenberg, bass clarinet and alto sax); jc.com/Impro (with Victoria Hanna, vocals); Impro (with Harold Rubin, clarinet); Impro (with Josef Sprinzak, original text Tupu); Impro (with Hagai Freshtman, drums and percussion); Impro 1 & Impro 2 (with Daniel Hoffman, violin); Snake Me; Tableau 1; Tableau 2 & Tableau 3 (with Gan Lev, reeds and home made didge); Little Men Of War (with Harold Rubin, original text and clarinet); Mosquitos 1 & Impro 2 (with Nori Jacoby, viola and flutes)

J.C. Jones With Friends: Duos II

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 17, 2005

Israeli bassist Jean-Claude Jones--born in Tunisia, raised in France, and educated at Berklee in Boston--is one of the dedicated forerunners of the small community of free jazz players in Israel. In the last years his activity focused on intimate improvised encounters with local kindred souls--musicians, poets, vocal artists, and dancers, very often in duos, in the ...