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Hank Jones / Oliver Jones: Pleased To Meet You
by Raul d'Gama Rose
What a surprise to hear the first-ever recording that joins piano maestros Hank Jones and Oliver Jones. A Detroit native, ninety-year-old Hank Jones is from the family that gave us Thad “Bartok with Wings" Jones and polyrhythmist Elvin Jones, and he has participated in historic bebop sessions with Charlie Parker and memorable duets ...
Sylvain Provost: Desirs Demodes
by Robert J. Lewis
Sylvain Provost Désirs Démodés Effendi Records 2009 If you've been among the very best in your chosen field (of jazz piano) over a long career, there will inevitably come a time when what you say carries as much weight as what you play. So when pianist Oliver Jones, ...
Montreal Jazz Festival: Days 7-9, July 7-9, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae Charlie Haden Family and Friends / Bill Frisell QuartetVan Der Graaf Generator / Ornette ColemanFestival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 7-9 2009 Every year the Festival ...
Resonance Big Band / Sammy Nestico-SWR Big Band / Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra / Alf Clausen Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Resonance Big Band Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson Resonance Records 2009 First things first: there will never be another Oscar Peterson. Period. Even so, there are others who come remarkably close to retracing his legendary footsteps. Fellow Canadian Oliver Jones is one, Romanian-born Marian Petrescu another. It is ...
Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Featuring the music of Oliver Jones
Duration: 4:03
Oliver Jones: One More Time / Serenade
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo l’inarrivabile Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones è il pianista più conosciuto ed apprezzato sulla scena jazz canadese. Ciò che più lo caratterizza, sulle orme del maestro sopra citato, è una ragguardevole vena bluesy accompagnata da un raffinato quanto disteso senso dello swing. Jones è anche un artista duttile - anche se discontinuo - , che si ...
Have Fingers, Will Travel
By Oliver Jones
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Released: 1998
Track listing:
D.B.G. Blues; Yvonne; Street of Dreams; If I Were a Bell; I'm Through with Love; Late Afternoon Blues; Without a Song; Charlie B.; Snowy Peaks; Beautiful Jayde; My Romance (69:03).
Oliver Jones: Just in Time
by Jack Bowers
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 ...
Oliver Jones: Have Fingers, Will Travel
by Jack Bowers
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 ...
