JEAN CLAUDE JONES

Jean Claude Jones was born in Sfax, Tunisia and moved to France as a young child. As a teen, he simultaneously taught himself to play lead and bass guitar. At the age of 17 he began working in professional pop music and jazz bands. In 1978 he moved to the US where he pursued formal music studies, graduating from the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he majored in jazz guitar. He continued his studies at the Music Institute of Technology in Los Angeles. In 1983 he emigrated to Israel where he became a key player in the newly developing jazz scene. After several years he made a definitive switch from bass guitar to double bass, and became involved in free improvised music. Over time he added electronics and computer-manipulated sounds to his musical arsenal. The driving force behind his work is "finding my space." JC Jones is an esteemed read more...