Hedley Jones is an experienced music industry professional with an impressive array of creative credentials ranging from broadcasting to digital music and photography.
The recipient of several Black Music Awards, in Toronto. Over the years, he has earned an enviable reputation as a true musical innovator and a genial radio personality with cross-generational appeal.His roots are embedded in the world of music having started as a musician in Jamaica, in his teens. It was there that his father Hedley Jones Sr. built Studio One for Clement Dodd aka Coxone Downbeat and was audio engineer on some early Wailers recordings.
In the early ‘70s, Jones began his broadcast career with CBC Radio in Toronto, as a Writer/Producer for several highly acclaimed programs including the Juno nominated, daily morning variety show Eclectic Circus. In 1977, he secured his place in Toronto music history as a member of the original on air staff of the, then fledgling radio station CFNY FM. During his tenure with the station, which ended in 1993, “Deadly Hedley†became one of the city’s best-loved and most respected DJs, introducing audiences to the best in reggae, worldbeat and house music and shaping the musical tastes of a generation of Toronto listeners. Throughout the 90s, Jones remained a high profile Toronto radio personality on major market stations stations Q107, Mix 99.9 and Energy 108 which was Canada's first dance music station.... playing his unique blend of reggae, hip hop and electronica.In 1996, sensing the coming convergence of music and the Internet, Jones co-founded Canada’s first internet broadcast station, the Virtually Canadian Broadcast Network which subsequently became the publicly traded Iceberg Media.com Inc. (Iceberg Radio is now one of the channels of new Canadian Satellite Radio, now being launched in Canada). Through its entertainment portal, The Iceberg.com, created and deliverd audio and video programming over the Internet through a variety of distinct channels of content for which Jones served as Music Director. 1Groove.com featured the Best DJ's in Canada 24/7 in 2002 which was Hedley's contribution to what has become common place on the Internet. Major shareholders of the company were CHUM Limited, Standard Broadcasting and Newcap Broadcasting, before it was taken private in the summer of 2002 by its present sole owner Standard Broadcasting.In 2002 Hedley primarily turned his talents to education. Working with Rick Halpern, Professor of American Studies at the University of Toronto, he helped develop a 400 level course for the 2002-2003 year, “Hellhound on My Trail: Living the Blues in the Mississippi Delta, 1890-1945,†examining black life and culture in the American South through the medium of the Blues..."doing the resarch for this program opened my eyes to what blacks from the south had to go through to create what we now know as pop music"Jones is busy in the studio making beats in his digital studio and helping his son Miles aka DJMJ who is now making quite a name for himself in Toronto. He released his first album..the self produced “One Chance" CD March 2006...check him out at:
www.mojorecordings.com
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Jones’ current work,
“I am really busy right now...2007 is already a blur...Just got back from Jamaica with my son Miles. We went to interview my dad Hedley Sr. who turns 90 years old this year and he just finished writing his autobiography ...which is also about some of the history of Jamaican Music (Mento/Reggae) and his involvement."Miles and I recorded audio and stills for what he is calling "The Jones Project" check it out at www.MY SPACE.com/therealstudio1......travel and architectural photography are among my many passions...Cuba and Jamaica are good subjects...I just visited both...I am also doing photography in Toronto/Los Angeles with well known portrait / fashion and editorial photographer Toronto born Cherie Steinberg Cote, you can check out our work at :
www.cheriefoto.com or our blog at: cheriefotoblog.com,"On the music side I'm working on a digital studio for podcasting as well as making music in the studio ....just bought a Roland Hansonic 10, it's a digital pad that you play like bongos.....it's the most fun musical instrument I have ever owned so far. Burning Man watch out......I have come full circle, back to playing drums like I did in my teens.
Podcasting is still young but listening to radio style programs on demand is the wave of the future†......I AM a part of that futureâ€
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