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Hello, My name is Scott Jones, professional musician. My main musical styles are fusion, jazz, prog, blues...but I play just about everything, not to limit myself... My influences are very diverse. See influences page. I taught guitar and theory privately for 4 years from 1992-1996, going to students homes...had to streamline my schedule so I don't do it on a regular basis anymore... Last year, I was very fortunate to have my CD released on Allan Holdsworth's label, Gnarly Geezer Records... From that release, I received some great feedback from Steve Vai, Brett Garsed, Derryl Gabel, Shane Theriot, Greg Koch, Rusty Cooley... This year, I have switched labels to Progressive Arts Music, and have re-released the C.D. My C.D. "Freedom", was on the official finalist's list of potential nominees for a Grammy this year for Best Contemporary Jazz Album: LIST HERE (I'm #29) Didn't make the final, but hey there's always next year! For this re-release, I went back into the studio and wrote 3 bonus tracks, and beefed up the guitar parts and the overall mix, making it a much better disc...(I also enhanced the C.D. with about 80 minutes of bonus mp3s in CD-ROM format, and 3 live video clips) I was very fortunate to have released this new version only a few months ago, to some very encouraging reviews... Here's a link to access those reviews: I'm fortunate to have been in Keyboard magazines Discoveries
column, Recording magazine's Reader's
tapes, Music and Computers magazine's Spotlight
column. I have recently confirmed my line up for my next C.D. ...Dave Weckl's keyboardist Steve Weingart, ...Steve Vai's and Planet X drummer Virgil Donati, ...as well as Planet X bassist Rufus Philpot, ...and Tribal Tech bassist Gary Willis, ...OHM and Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland will be doing a guest solo on one track, As well as: ...Scott Henderson, Scott Lerner, Guthrie Govan, Ron Thal, Greg Howe, Joel Hoekstra, JMR, Rafael Moreira. ...Bassist Gerald Veasley will be doing a duet with me on one track. ...legendary Nashville Bassist Keith Horne will be playing one track. Featuring local greats: James Jackson II, John King, Danny Dumaine, Bill Elrod. Producer/engineer Anton Pukshansky, is aboard also...Anton is a Grammy award winner for his work on Santana's "Supernatural". Here's a Flash Intro I'm having developed for the new release: FLASH INTRO
I am also currently the band director, guitarist, and transcriber/arranger at my church in St. Louis. It is a contemporary service that has afforded me the great privilege of writing in every style imaginable and sharing my gifts to a congregation of 3-4000 people each week. This includes all vocal arranging, all transcribing, new instrumental arrangements of hymns and worship songs, new original songs, all orchestrations of horns, strings, piano, full rhythm section; in the styles of pop, country, jazz, orchestral...etc. It's a great life...! |
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