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Specifically, Mike Jones performs music from what’s become known as the Great American Songbook for more people each year than any jazz pianist in the world. Really. This is because, as music director for the enduringly popular Penn & Teller Show in Las Vegas and other venues across the globe, he plays these classic standards in the “warm-up” hour – and during and between the onstage magic – for the millions of visitors who attend the show. In a career spanning four decades, Jones has wowed audiences with his virtuoso skills and stylistic flair – nowhere to greater acclaim than at the sold-out houses in New York that marked Penn and Teller’s 2015 six-week return to Broadway. In general? Mike Jones plays the piano as if had more than 88 notes and as if each of his fingers were Usain Bolt. How He Does It Mike Jones is a thoroughly modern throwback to what used to be called the “two-handed pianist,” which is not as obvious as it sounds

Album

Mike Jones With Strings

By Mike Jones

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Lady Be Good; Gone With The Wind; Autumn Leaves; Kelly's Blues; Destination Moon; Deed I Do; The Very Thought of You; Exactly Like You.

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Lady Be Good

November 30, 2026

Album: Mike Jones With Strings
By Mike Jones
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 7:17

Article: Radio & Podcasts

John Katsilometes on Thirty Years Covering Everyone in Las Vegas

by Mike Jones
November 9, 2026

For thirty years, if something happened on a Las Vegas stage, John Katsilometes was probably in the room. The entertainment columnist behind “The Kats Report" at the Las Vegas Review-Journal joins host Mike Jones for a conversation about a career built without a journalism degree. From covering the Tyson vs. Holyfield “bite night" as a young ...

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Putter Smith & Jeff Colella: Monk, Mr. Kidd, and Sixteen Years With Lou Rawls

by Mike Jones
November 2, 2026

Bassist Putter Smith once passed on a month with Thelonious Monk for a better-paying tour with John Mayall, and he still wishes he hadn't. He and pianist Jeff Colella join Mike Jones for the show's first two-guest conversation, built around Between Friends, their new duo record on Capri Records and their first together since Lotus Blossom ...

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Todd Robbins, Part 2: Dave McKenna as saloon pianist…

by Mike Jones
October 26, 2026

In Part 2 of their conversation, the magician, sideshow artist, and ragtime pianist tells Jonesy about his mid-80s job emceeing the piano room at the Fortune Garden Pavilion, where he brought on Tommy Flanagan and Dave McKenna under a greenhouse roof. Dave McKenna asked Todd Robbins to introduce him as “a saloon pianist," so Todd did, ...

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Todd Robbins, Part 1: The Night Dick Wellstood Played for One Person

by Mike Jones
October 19, 2026

In Part 1 of a two-part conversation, the magician, sideshow artist, and ragtime pianist, Todd Robbins, tells Mike Jones how a string of happy accidents built a career that now runs six nights a week at Speakeasy Magick in New York, a show he says he put together on the fly, “just like a jazz solo." ...

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Shirantha Beddage, The New Philly Sound, Jocelyn Gould, Vanisha Gould and more

by Benjamin Boddie
October 16, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! ... Fantastic music by Shirantha Beddage, The New Philly Sound, Jocelyn Gould, Vanisha Gould, Tyler Henderson, Shai Jaschek, 3 More Sounds, Richard X Bennett & Paula Jeanine Bennett, Phil Haynes 2 Horns & What?, Chris Whiteman John Toomey Quartet, Houston Person, Charles Gatschet, Planet Flippo, Somi, Sullivan Fortner, Enoch Smith Jr., Jalen Baker, ...

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Quentin Walston: Teaching Jazz, Retro Future, and Reviving 1920s Stride

by Mike Jones
October 5, 2026

This week Quentin Walston, pianist, author, and jazz educator, joins Mike Jones for a conversation about a simple idea: people enjoy the music more when they understand what is going on inside it. He would know. He broke down Take Five into a short video and four and a half million people watched. They ...

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David Silverman: Sketches and Sonatas

by Mike Jones
September 28, 2026

This week on The Stereo Image, Mike sits down with his old friend David Silverman. He's an Emmy-winning director and animator on The Simpsons, and the artist behind every one of Mike's album covers, and he joins Mike for a wide-ranging conversation about how a childhood spent poring over miniature orchestral scores turned into a lifelong ...