Jazz Articles about Jayme Stone

Jayme Stone: Symphonies in a Lightbulb

by Cathy Colman
May 27, 2009

Jayme Stone, banjo player and composer from Canada, recently won the 2009 Juno Award for Best Music Album of the Year for Africa to Appalachia (Self Published, 2008), a collaboration with musicians from Africa. Stone travelled to Africa to trace the roots of banjo and the characteristics of early styles, which haven't yet made it to the Americas.

He also runs a quartet of his own formation--the Jayme Stone Quartet--which performs works of diverse ...