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Emily Jones

Have you met Miss Jones?

About Me

Hi, I'm Emily, I'm rather obsessed with music, and a DJ, amongst other things; Feel free to check out my website ( www.emilyjones.ca ), or read further for my official (and detailed!) bio.

As of the end of February, 2008, I am now based in Milan, Italy.
Emily Christina Jones, born in Canada in 1979, is the daughter of European immigrants and youngest of 3 girls. She was raised in a family where music and reading were encouraged, and team sports and television were discouraged, and as a result became fascinated with music at an early age. Her father, a noted meteor physicist and multi-instrumentalist, especially inspired Emily, and passed on his tremendous passion for music to her.
As a teenager, in part motivated by her mother's love of classical music, she studied voice (Royal Conservatory lessons) with a trained opera singer, and was also a choir member, but paused in her vocal training at age 17, due to the demands of her studies, and soon began to re-direct her energy towards seriously collecting music, as she completed her computer science degree at university.
Miss Jones represents a refreshing escape from the modern electronic dance music landscape. Instead her sets are full of music with real instruments, bright songs, and swinging rhythms, that make your toes tap. Recognized for groovy, upbeat music matched with a glowing smile, Emily whisks you off (in style) to a sunny coastal town you've never heard of, where it's always summer, drinks have little paper umbrellas and you're never the only one dancing.
Her recipes for refined atmosphere are culled from the global jazz movement at large - from old greats, to fresh interpretations of jazz standards, splashed with many forms of Latin music, funk, jazzy hip-hop, organic house, and funky breakbeat, along with music from lesser-known modern jazz / bossa pioneers. From contemporary Finland, Germany, and Japan to the latest British and Italian jazz aimed squarely at the dance floor, Miss Jones has come forth to play records that few have heard and most fall instantly in love with.
Emily Jones has held multiple weekly and monthly DJ residencies in the Ottawa, Canada region (2004-2008) and completed her first European mini-tours in 2007, playing DJ gigs in Germany, Italy, France, Belgium and the UK.
For booking information, please send a myspace message or (preferably) contact emily[dot]jones[at]gmail[dot]com
For more information on Emily's DJing activities/charts/tracklists/MIXES etc. go to her website at www.emilyjones.ca .
New! Check out the photos from Emily's Summer trip / Mini DJ Tour - Myspace Photo Album ,
Miss Jones's Holiday, Europe, Summer, 2007
(or see the slide show below)
If you are interested in more details, please see Emily's personal profile (click on the photo below)...
Miss Emily Jones
*** Looking for musicians to work with for an ongoing live project , if you like the kind of records Emily plays and are a jazz musician in the Ottawa area interested in working with her, please contact Emily! Thanks!
Myspace Editor
Pimp MySpace
Music For Time Travelling (Recorded April/07)
Listen (or right click Em's suitcase and "save-target-as" to download)
1. Johnny Lytle - Unhappy Happy Soul (Riverside)
2. Luiz Bonfa - Bahia Soul (Contour Records)
3. Miguel Angel - Consolação (What Music)
4. Isabelle Aubret - La Ville Est Là (L'Arome)
5. Dave Pike - Ginha (New Jazz)
6. Tamba 4 - We and the Sea (A&M Records)
7. Lalo Schifrin - Bikini Waltz (MCA Records)
8. The Afro-Latin Soultet - Afro Soul (Tower Records)
9. Luiz Bonfa/Eumir Deodato - Saturday in Rio (Mercury Records)
10. Tito Puente - Hit de Bongo (Vampisoul)
11. Lalo Schifrin - Fiesta Numero Uno (Polydor Records)
12. Mongo Santamaria - Happy Now (Riverside)
Photos from Emily's Summer 2007 European Mini-DJ Tour:



***please do not post big ugly comments on my page. if i do not approve comments, it is usually because they are too big and/or too ugly, not because i don't like you or your band.***

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/11/2007
Band Website: emilyjones.ca
Band Members: Just Emily and her record collection, at the moment, but also please check out Emily's friends in Germany at

Influences: some artists you may hear in my sets:ahmad jamal, air, aldemaro romero, alice russell, allison crocket, antonio carlos jobim, art blakey, astor piazzolla, astrud gilberto, baby mammoth, banda black rio, beatfanatic, benjamin herman, billy brooks, birds and brass, bobby hughes in his various incarnations, bonobo, booker t & mgs, brasil 66, briskey, bud powell, cal tjader, casbah 73, celso murilo, che, chris joss, colman brothers, combo moderna, dalindèo, dave brubeck, dave pike, desmond williams, diesler , dino & franco piana, dizzy gillespie, dj krush, don pablo de havana, dusko goykovich, dzihan & kamien, ed lincoln, eddie cano, eddie fischer quintet, eli goulart, elis regina, ella and louis, esthero, everything but the girl, fabio nobile, federico aubele, five corners quintet, fila brazillia, fk5, frank walton, freddie cruger, fumi, funky dl, fuzz against junk, george levin, gerardo frisina, gotan project, hank mobley, henry mancini, herbaliser, hi fly orchestra, hint, horace silver, ian friday, ian pooley, idea 6, isabelle antena, jaime delgado aparicio, james brown, jazz invaders, jimmy sabater, john coltrane, johnny lytle, jon lucien, jp duet, jukka eskola, k&d, kenny clarke / francy boland, kero one, kira neris, koop, kraak en smaak, lalo schifrin, latin brothers, les hommes, lorez alexandra, los amigos invisibles, ltc, maelstrom & napz, manfred , margie hendrix, marva whitney, marvin gaye, meirelles, micatone, miles davis, milt jackson, milton banana, mjq, mo' horizons, mongo santamaria, mop mop, morcheeba, mr. scruff, nicola conte, nils krogh, nitin sawhney, nu tropic, patchworks, paul desmond, paulo alencar, piero umiliani, plastyc buddha, povo, primo trio, quantic, quantic soul orchestra, quartet tres bien, quarteto em cy, quarteto novo, quasimode, ray baretto, ray barretto, red astaire, reel people, roberto menescal, rosalia de souza, royksopp, santana, sergio mendes, sharon jones, sia , sleeve , solar apple quarktette, solo moderna, sono rhizmo, soulstance, soulstance , stan getz, starcrost , steamboat, stereolab, s-tone, tamba 4, tania maria, tata vasquez, terea, the bossa rio sextet, the dining rooms, the gilbertos, the juju orchestra, the voices, thievery corporation, thunderball, timo lassy, tito puente, tm juke, tortured soul, tubby hayes, ursula 1000, wagon cookin, waiwan, willis jackson, xavier cugat, zero 7, zero db, zimbo trio...

check my website and old myspace profile ( www.myspace.com/emilycjones ) blog for charts, mixes, set lists and more
Sounds Like: jazz, old and new in varying forms, but particularly 60's / dancefloor / latin / cinematic jazz, bossa nova and other forms of latin music, old and new funk, boogaloo, slow funky breaks, good hip hop, stylish downtempo, select house and afrobeat, brazilian dnb, and more...

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Limachips Profile

Many thanks to Orlando of Limachips in New York, for setting up a profile for me on www.limachips.com. I still need to get in there and customize it with my own content but you can check out...
Posted by Emily Jones on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:18:00 PST

Gerardo Frisina on Myspace!

go listen to his beautiful music, and add him, per favore click here: http://www. myspace. com/gerardofrisina...
Posted by Emily Jones on Thu, 22 May 2008 07:11:00 PST

Mixes for Download

I'm going to be pretty busy in the next few weeks, if you've not got them already, here are some mixes of mine you can download (right-click title and save, to download)...Summer Saudade(Recorded Sept...
Posted by Emily Jones on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:21:00 PST

Set list from Social, February 14/08

The turntables were fixed (even the lights!!).after sorting through my records and trying to decide which ones to leave in canada and which to bring to italy, i found a bunch of old ones i forgot i ha...
Posted by Emily Jones on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:37:00 PST

Set list from Social, Thursday Feb 7/08, and Moving to Milano

Yes, I guess I better make the official announcement, I am moving to Milano at the end of February.  I got a nice little job offer there, enough to justify the move, and I am really excited about...
Posted by Emily Jones on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:46:00 PST

New Mix, Arrivederci per ora, January 29/08

This might be the last mix I make in Canada for a while.  Milano, here I come."Arrivederci per ora" 1. Donald Byrd - Boom Boom (Stereo Deluxe / Verve)2. Dave Burns - Rigor Mortez (Vanguard)3. Sab...
Posted by Emily Jones on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:45:00 PST

Set List as kept at Social, December 13/07

All from vinyl, thank goodness for re-issues but I also got a nice package of old ones in the mail from Brazil yesterday. :)1. Dzihan & Kamien - Stiff jazz2. Hi Fly Orchestra - Samboogaloo3. Gerar...
Posted by Emily Jones on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:09:00 PST

Dec 07 Newsletter: Upcoming European Gigs, Tunes I like, and Other Mildly Important Information

Hi Everyone,Just wanted to get my newsletter sent out before the ChristmasHolidays, some cool gigs coming up in Germany and France, I'mparticularly excited about djing with Mo' Horizons at Calamari Mo...
Posted by Emily Jones on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:00:00 PST

Set List as kept at Mambo, December 8/07

All from vinyl, shorter set tonight than expected cause it was coooooooold and no one seemed to want to go out.. and I mustn't let myself post any more set lists from local gigs until I have time to g...
Posted by Emily Jones on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:39:00 PST

Set List as kept at E18hteen, Friday December 7/07

All from vinyl, as usual.   Didn't have much time to switch records from the night before but still managed ok... :)1. Jukka Eskola - 19742. Invisible session - Heroes of the conquest3. Kenn...
Posted by Emily Jones on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:32:00 PST