New York born bassist/composer Brad Christopher Jones is well recognized for his work as a sideman but is also a bandleader who has recorded three CDs with two seperate projects.
One entitled "Pouring My Heart In" with The Brad Jones Quartet and two entitled "Uncivilized Poise" and "The Embodiment" with his band Aka Alias.
The quartet is an all acoustic jazz group which features Jones' original compositions that
are tailored specifically for the piano-less/guitar-less instrumentation.
The music has a wide dynamic range that goes from hauntingly beautiful and strange to hard straight-ahead swing and experimental.
The group consists of Bob DeBellis (saxophones), Greg Tardy (saxophones), Derrek Phillips (drums), and Jones on acoustic bass.
Aka Alias is Jones' first group as a leader. The mostly electric quintet possesses a more danceable yet sonically intriguing musical sensibility that derives influences of everything from Jazz to Funk to Calypso to free improvisation.
The group consists of Bob DeBellis (saxophones), David Gilmore (guitar), Jeff Lawrence (keyboards), Abe Fogle (drums), and Jones on electric and acoustic basses.
Both groups have played extensively in many major music venues throughout the NYC area for the past 12 years such as The Blue Note, The Jazz Gallery, The Knitting Factory, CBGB's, Wetlands, Tonic, The Stone, Conelia St. Cafe, Barbes, and Issue Project Room.
To purchase any of the band's CDs or to check on up coming events, you can go to
www.bassjones.com or www.cdbaby.com as well as this site.
