Jazz Articles about Oliver Jones

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Oliver Jones: Just For My Lady

Read "Just For My Lady" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 27, 2013

Pianist Oliver Jones has become something of a national treasure on the Canadian jazz scene over the past three decades. That's all the more remarkable considering the fact that this soon-to-be eighty year old didn't start making jazz recordings until he was in his 50s. In many respects, as his recording career has evolved, Jones has become the poster boy for the Justin Time imprint; he's released about twenty records on this label over the past thirty ...

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Oliver Jones: Just in Time

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 1998

This could be an uncommonly brief review. After acknowledging that Canadian Oliver Jones is one of the most consistently inventive and technically awesome mainstream Jazz pianists on the planet, one who is at the absolute pinnacle of his typically hard–swinging creative powers on this newly released two–disc concert date from Justin Time, there’s not a whole lot more to say. Even while laboring always beneath the immense shadow of fellow countryman and alter–ego Oscar Peterson, Jones has managed to transcend ...

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Oliver Jones: Have Fingers, Will Travel

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 1998

Nearly 70 minutes of awe-inspiring technical brilliance and emphatic swinging at any and all tempos by Canada's “other" wizard of the contemporary Jazz piano, Oliver Jones. The comparisons to Oscar Peterson are inescapable, so let's dispense with them first. Yes, Jones did study piano with Oscar's sister, Daisy; yes, his command of the keyboard and his apparently endless profusion of inventive twists and turns rival those of the master himself; and yes, he and his sidemen - bassist Ray Brown, ...