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Jayme Stone

Banjo-playing composer Jayme Stone follows whimsy rigorously. He picked up a passion for music from an eccentric uncle who listened to records endlessly, placing his ashtray on the speaker so Stone could join him in watching how the cigarette smoke swirled to the music. Stone muses that he started playing banjo because the instruments' quirky physics align with his quick thinking. Soon after his calling to the banjo, he followed the sound of an Indian sarod (like a whisp of smoke) in a small California town to a chance meeting with revered Indian musician Ali Akbar Khan. "I spent the better part of the week soaking up these ancient songs," remembers Stone

Jazz Near You Imports GigPress Events for Jazz Musicians

February 13, 2019

Jazz Near You—the web's leading jazz event aggregator—now imports events uploaded by musicians through GigPress—the WordPress calendar plugin. Musicians including trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Donny McCaslin, both GigPress users, now see their dates uploaded to Jazz Near You within 24 hours of uploading them to the Greenleaf Music website. If you are a jazz musician ...

TD Toronto Jazz Festival, Days 4-10: June 27-July 3, 2011

by Alain Londes
July 9, 2011

TD Toronto Jazz Festival 2011Toronto, CanadaJune 24-July 3, 2011 Monday, June 27, 2011On Monday evening, fans had a few hard choices to make among the headliners. At Koerner Hall, award-winning Dee Dee Bridgewater paid tribute to Lady Day, Billie Holiday. Meanwhile at the Enwave Theatre, Kurt Elling ...

Jayme Stone: "Room of Wonders"

March 2, 2011

Bach's Lilt, Mystery Melodies, and the Wonders of the World: Banjo Instigator Jayme Stone Whirls and Waltzes on Room of Wonders As masterful banjo player and musical instigator Jayme Stone was fixing dinner one night, he heard Bach dance. “I was listening to Bach's “French Suites" while cooking. The performance had such a lilt to it ...

Africa to Appalachia

By Jayme Stone

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009

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 ...

Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko's African American Folk

June 20, 2008

American Music is African Music From blues to R&B to disco to electronica to bluegrass, every strain of American music can trace its DNA back to ideas rooted in the African American and African traditions, from the rhythms and melodies to the instruments themselves. Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko's new collaborative album, Africa to Appalachia, brings ...