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Australian Jazz Artist Releases CD In Time For The Holidays For Release: December 12, 2011 Feature by Jazz Lynx, 10/30/11  A seasoned musician with a wealth of experience, Australian bassist Wayne Jones has
been plying his craft for nigh on 30 years. During that time, he's played nearly every
imaginable style with some of the country's leading artists. But as smooth jazz blossomed
in the 80s and 90s, he was drawn to the music of Marcus Miller, Lee Ritenour, Larry
Carlton, and others. Even so, he was told there wasn't a large enough market down
under for the type of music that he was interested in making. So it was that years
down the road, Jones found himself going round the same old block, and finding less
creative satisfaction with each successive lap. So it was that he decided to concentrate
on his own music and, although it was 7 years in the making, that dream was realized
in 2006 with the issue of Forgotten Melody, an auspicious debut and a most pleasant
surprise for the year! The follow up in Saturday Street, further cemented Jones' reputation
as a world-class tunesmith and now in 2011, Wayne has unleashed his finest project
to date! On the disc, Jones is backed by a raft of great talent; it's a dynamic 6-tune
recording that prompted Wayne to say, he gets the feeling that he's arrived.Superb from start to finish, there are no fillers and that's one of the truly great things about such a 'compact' offering. "Strawberry on a String" is a tune that came out of a Skype conversation between Wayne and Mike MacArthur the saxplayer for the record. Jones said, "He had this lamp behind him coming down from the roof, a big long cord and the lamp looked like a strawberry." Perhaps Wayne said it best when describing "Children Who Lose Their Way": "A nice fun track, a great groove and simple old fashioned bass lines." In spite of the title Closed For The Holidays, there's little doubt that in so far as Wayne Jones is concerned, business is about to pick up! |
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