I am a Pianist and Composer living in Cardiff.
I co-run The Jones O'Connor Group as well as playing in a number of other things. I also run a Noise/Improvisation Trio called Sound Engineer and write music for Contemporary Music Ensembles, Theatre and Dance Companies and T.V/Film Companies. I have worked with RuthisStrangerthanRichard Theatre,The Sherman Theatre, The New Music Collective/In Transit Ensemble, Linder Sterling, BBC, S4C, The Wales Jazz Composers Orchestra and even the Goldie Lookin Chain!I also teach Jazz and Free Improvisation at the RWCMD Junior Music Department.
Currently I am Recording a new album with the Jones O'Connor Group and working on several other composition projects.
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GROUPS
The Jones O'Connor Group
Sound Engineer
The Room Orchestra
The Rob Smith Onsombl
The Gareth Roberts Quintet
AWARDS/COMMISIONS
Best Unsigned Artist 2004 (P.R.S.Foundation)
Composer in Residence at The Brecon Jazz festival 2006
Commission for the Wales Jazz Composers Orchestra(P.R.S.F &Welsh Arts Council 2006)
The H.T.V Study award 2007
DISCOGRAPHY
The Jones O'Connor Group
A Crow for every Crow - 2007
Alpha - 2005
New Jazz Wales Vol 1 - 2003
The Room Orchestra
A Collection of Numbers E.P - 2004
Shapes I Cant Ignore E.P - 2004
Little Planets in the Wires(Slow Graffitti Compilation)-2003
Goldie Lookin Chain
Greatest Hits
QUOTES
Sound Engineer
"Cardiff’s pioneering experimental music group" - Chapter Arts Centre
"An experimental workout taking in jazz, krautrock and electronic soundscapes...not to be missed"
Slow Graffiti
The Jones O'Connor Group
"a seemingly bottomless well of resources and influences" - Jazzviews
"Compositionally, the record [Alpha] is hip and unpredictable...What's more the players are on the money, in particular Paul Jones - a sensitive fender rhodes player on 'True Story' or blazing like McCoy on 'Sonista'. Richard Jones is also a fine electric guitarist with chops and taste to spare...Excellent forward thinking brit jazz" **** Jazzwise Magazine
"Definitely one to watch" - Welsh Jazz Society
"Spacious Minimalism" The Western Mail
"Left of centre jazz that flirts with early 70's Miles Davis...Unsung hero's." Buzz Magazine
The Room Orchestra
Breakdown -"With a touch of Brian Wilson's world-weary angst, a quietly majestic piano line, and an elegant electronic backing that aims for perfect synthesis rather than body-rocking fun, this is a thoughtful take on the New Sensitivity" - Bethan and Huw BBC Wales
A Collection of Numbers -
"A placid Krautrock treat, lead song 1/1 Rock is a hypnotic update of Bowie's "Heroes" without the melodrama and cocaine psychosis - possibly how the Thin White Duke might have sounded had he swapped the drugs for somnambulism back in 1977" BBc Wales
The Gareth Roberts Quintet
"Jones is maybe the real ace in the hole of the band: his chordal mastery is a malleable glue for Roberts' harmonies, which try to conjure up ghosts of Dave Brubeck, McCoy Tyner and Burt Bacharach all in the space of a single track" Massimo Ricci - Touchingextremes
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