Results for "Mike Jones"

Mike Jones, Terell Stafford & The Hot Toddies Jazz Band

by Joe Dimino
August 13, 2023

With “Kansas City" from NYC's The Hot Toddies Jazz Band, we swing into the 815th Episode of Neon Jazz with music from their debut album. This hour of music highlights modern jazz that's brimming on the radio charts. We hear from singers Douyé, Olivia Van Goor and Matt Catingub, plus a strong dose of instrumental jazz ...

Perdido

August 27, 2023

Album: Are You Sure You Three Guys Know What You're Doing?
By Mike Jones
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:15

Popular Jazz Songs: 2021

by Michael Ricci
January 1, 2022

All About Jazz tracks how often a featured song is heard, and the following represent the most popular in 2021. If you missed them the first time around, give them a listen now, and enjoy! Say It Again From: From Now On By Leon Brenko Menart I ...

Quarantime! The Complete Pandemic Piano Sessions

By Mike Jones

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Exactly Like You; April In Paris; C Jam Blues; Have You Met Miss Jones?; There Will Never Be Another You; Tangerine; I Got It Bad; Alone Together; Day By Day; Close Your Eyes. For the remaining 108 tracks, go here.

All By Myself

By Mike Jones

Label: Jonesjazz Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else; The Sheik Of Araby; All by Myself; I'll See You In My Dreams; It Had To Be You; Chicago; Lady Be Good; Poor Butterfly; Chinatown, My Chinatown; Back Home Again In Indiana; Lazy; Linger Awhile; After You've Gone.

Clifton Anderson, Reggie Quinerly & Allan Harris

by Joe Dimino
March 28, 2021

We devote a full hour of Neon Jazz to the music and artists of 2021. A lot of music was backlogged from 2020, but it was time to take a long look at the artists who are making 2021 a special year for jazz. We start off with NYC trombonist Clifton Anderson and make our way ...

Mike Jones: All By Myself

by Dan Bilawsky
January 21, 2021

While jazz is a social music through and through, solitude has always spurred creation too. And in the age of COVID-19, when safety often stands in the way of musical gatherings, solo efforts seem to be the way to go. For pianist Mike Jones, the idea of playing solo piano is far from ...

The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else

January 15, 2021

Album: All By Myself
By Mike Jones
Label: Jonesjazz Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 04:03

Kelly’s Blues

Featuring the music of Mike Jones
Duration: 3:19
January 15, 2021

Mike Jones

Born: August 11, 1962

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