DAVE JONES
Genres: Hard Bop, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Post Bop, World Fusion • United Kingdom

Following his initial musical training in Cambridge where he studied piano with the concert pianist and composer Philip Mead, in 1985 Dave attended the first ever Jazz, Rock and Studio Music Summer School at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he was inspired by tuition in jazz piano and harmony with Lionel Grigson. He soon after embarked on a musical career, initially involving recording sessions at Maida Vale Studios in London for BBC Radio 2 programmes hosted by Dave Gelly (jazz critic, author) and Digby Fairweather (jazz cornetist, author) with the jazz-funk band '706'. Around this time, he also performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in a two-week residency with the same band. Dave, no stranger to the recording studio, supervised the digital audio restoration of many recordings, both historical and contemporary, and whether jazz, classical, pop, or rock, for the then burgeoning new market of CD read more...