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Jazz Guitarist
Lee Jones Quintet
'Swish' Tour
2009

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Jazz Festivals, Jazz Clubs, Music Clubs & Theatres

Lee Jones - Guitar
Pete Parkinson - Saxes
Jim Wynn - Keyboards
Clive Rainbow or Tyrone Bishop - Bass
Jim Bashford - Drums
Pete Parkinson (Sax, Flute)
 Born into a musical family, Pete was steeped in music from an early age with his Father being a musical director; Pete was encouraged to sit in with his Father’s bands and told, "by the time we get to the third chorus I want to hear something coming from you!". Pete has been a professional musician for his entire career, working as MD and sax player for many artists world-wide through the last 40 years. He has continually sought to keep up with new concepts and contemporary sounds and this shows in his sax playing. At times lyrical and delicate, at times abrasive and aggressive, funky, perfectly in tune and always inspirational.

Clive Rainbow (Electric 5 String Bass)
Clive originally learned violin, but abandoned the orchestral world in favour of a variety of semi-professional settings from rock, funk, r’n’b, fusion, soul and more recently jazz. During this time he played by ear, but in recent years has returned to the formal music world with attendance at UCE and the Birmingham Conservatoire to obtain a Music Degree. Clive works as a full time educator, teaching at New College Telford on several BTEC Popular Music courses as well as teaching Bass and Guitar.

Tyrone Bishop (Bass)
Started playing in 1987, various Television, Radio and Studio engagements along with the Theartre, Cabaret and pub/club scene.

Jim Bashford
A new graduate from Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz degree stable and one of the course's finest drummers,

Swish (Lee Jones)
On the strength of a few recent impressive appearances at festivals, this young guitarist's name is beginning to get around. Musicians in their early twenties regularly astonish the world with their technique and Lee Jones has plenty of that, but it is far less common to find a fully developed personal style at such an early stage. Given the fact that he is broadly in the jazz-fusion idiom, there are inevitably hints of George Benson, John Scofield and the like in his playing, but far more of Lee Jones than anyone else, and a veritable flood of original ideas. Listen out, too, for the immaculate drumming of Chris Dagley.
Dave Gelly

The CD Album "Swish" is now available from this website Lee Jones
Features-
Lee Jones - Electric GuitarPete Parkinson - Sax & Flute
Ben Thomas - Trumpet
Alex Steele - Keyboards
Frazer Snell or Mark Smith -  Electric Bass Guitar
 Zoltan Dakaney - Double Bass
Chris 'Daggers' Dagley -  Drums
 

Tracks

 Swish
Majik
One Little Blue Note
Cookin' on Gas
Retrospective
Halfway House
Dorian Diversion
Out of the Day
Swish - (Jam Mix)

 

For Booking Enquiries for Lee Jones Quintet for Jazz Festivals, Theatre or Club Events, Corporate Events and Jazz Workshops
Contact - E-mail or Phone 01844 353117

Established Venue Dates are as follows:-
 30th April 09 -     The Cinnamon Club, Altrincham  7.30pm
                        www.thecinnamonclub.net

8th May '09  -     Wakefield Jazz Club (supporting Empirical)  7.45pm
                        www.wakefieldjazz.org.uk

21st May '09 -     Cafe Jazz, Cardiff   8.45pm
                        www.cafejazzcardiff.com

1st July '09   -     Mill Hill Jazz Club, London    8.30pm
                        www.millhilljazzclub.co.uk

9th August '09  - The White Swan, Stratford Jazz  8.00pm
                        www.stratfordjazz.org.uk

Interest has been shown by :-
Spice of Life - London
http://www.spiceoflifesoho.com/music.htm
Birmingham Jazz - Rush Hour Blues  - CBSO 
http://www.birminghamjazz.co.uk/
Scarborough Jazz
http://www.scarboroughjazz.co.uk/
South Hill Arts _ Bracknell -
http://www.southhillpark.org.uk/index.jsp

 

Lee Jones
was born in 1984 and started playing guitar age eight. Influences include: George Benson, Larry Carlton, John Scofield as well as Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter. Joined Shropshire Youth Jazz Ensemble in 2000 playing a mix of standards and original material by band leaders John Williams and Chris Bolton.
Lee recorded five jazz/fusion tracks with WEA producer Simon Tittley in late 2001 which featured Tom Warrington, Steve Houghton and other top US session musicians. 
Lee played at Cheltenham Jazz Festival Fringe 2003/04/06 and appeared in Jazzwise magazine in May 2004. Lee also featured in the 2005 Starbucks Birmingham International Jazz Festival and the 2007 Musicate project "The World as One". Winner of Jazz FM’s “Best New Instrumentalist" award,
Lee is currently studying on the BMus Jazz (Hons) course at Birmingham Conservatoire (with guitarist Phil Robson from BBC big band) and recently completed his debut album "Swish".
 http://www.myspace.com/leejonesguitarist 
 

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Review of Swish Album -

Lee Jones was born in 1984 and has already picked up a Jazz FM "Best New Instrumentalist of the Year" award. I’m not sure if he’s still currently studying for his Bmus. Jazz degree at the Birmingham Conservatoire but this disc certainly sounds like post-graduate work to me, however much I may personally dislike the style.

And the style is fusion, a blend of George Benson, Larry Carlton, maybe some Pat Metheny as well. It’s effortlessly fluent and malleable and establishes a firm groove from the outset. Swish is the title track and it returns, rather like the Aria of the Goldberg Variations, at the end of the disc but this time as a jam mix – a device Bach unaccountably overlooked in his immortal masterpiece. It opens with a funky shake down with tightly muted trumpet (Ben Thomas) and some take-off guitar work. In Majik one finds some nicely lyric saxophone from Pete Parkinson, equally fine piano from Alex Steele and tight sectional work from the rhythm section. One Little Blue Note is the expected hard bop homage whereas we’re pitched straight back into the funkier shores of fusion with the next track, Cookin’ on Gas.

The shifting metres and colours of the rhythm section are at their best in something like Retrospective where they support the appealing sax lines. Parkinson also enlarges the range of colours of the band with his flute work on Halfway House. There’s a good, long guitar solo from the leader on Dorian Diversion, an academic sounding title for an otherwise over-long tune. Lee Jones’s best playing is reserved for Out of the Day, a delightful song made more so by virtue of his articulate single string and chordal work. It’s the kind of playing in which he comes closest to the lyric playing of, say, Martin Taylor.

Still, Lee Jones has clearly found a niche early in his career and has a powerfully strong technical basis on which to expand. Too many of these cuts are too alike, despite the variety of instrumentation and rhythm that Jones has introduced. But the disc as a whole is, I’m sure, a harbinger of even better things to come.

Jonathan Woolf

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 88 London Road,
Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire,
GL52 6EH. Tel: +44(0)1242 515949 Fax: +44(0) 01242 515949
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Email: Sales, Tony Walker, John Vickers

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    -  Manouche guitars have really impressed me, as has the expertise of John and Tony who really know there stuff down there in Cheltenham.
    Manouche MG165 Guitar
    Technical Specifications:
    *Left handed guitar available to order*
    • Vintage Sunburst Finish
    • Maple laminate back and sides with spruce veneer cut-away top
    • Maple neck, rosewood fretboard with mother-of-pearl twin-block fret markers and black side markers
    • Body bindings in white with white-black purfling
    • Characteristic "F" sound hole with adjustable pick guard and mounted control knob
    • Fully adjustable bridge with gold-plated tail trapeze
    • Grover tuning gear
    • Adjustable truss rod with key
    • Single Humbucker pick-up
    • Bone nut with 14 frets to body
    • Scale length - 640mm
    • Nut width - 42mm
    • Body length - 510/15mm
    • Lower bout - 410mm
    • Upper bout - 295mm
    • Comes fully shop adjusted

The Lee Jones Band Format may be altered with additional artists who are well rehearsed from previous UK tours and other associations.
A Quartet, or Quintet can be formed where necessary using a combination of Quality Artists subject to availability such as :-
 Lee Jones - Electric Guitar
Pete Parkinson - Saxes
Jim Wynn - Keyboards
Clive Rainbow or Tyrone Bishop - Bass
Jim Bashford - Drums

Reviews:-
 http://www.leejones-guitarist.com/pdfs/quotes.pdf

it's good stuff! I plan to play a track on my new series starting next month on a plenty of that, but it is far less common to find a fully developed personal style at such an early stage
 Dave Gelly - The Observer

Certainly one of the most exciting young prospects I've heard in years. With the right breaks and in the right company he's sure to become one of the greats.
Jim Smith - Director Brecon Jazz Festival
 

it's good stuff! I plan to play a track on my new series starting next month on a brand new community station called Radio Cardiff...
Andy Roberts - DJ Jazz Connection, Cardiff

I must congratulate you on a fine piece of work, some excellent playing and good writing
Charles Alexander - Jazzwise MD

fine effort as a debut item and the supporting musicians are all first class. Particularly Pete Parkinson s Flute & Soprano Sax work
A solid body of composition work and a great showcase for your talent.....I look forward to intercepting your performance live
 Eddie Fowler -Concert Jazz, Oxford

the emergence of a new contemporary jazz artist in the United Kingdom is always special and one better than most is Guitarist Lee
Jones His debut album Swish , which he has both written and arranged, is a delightful blend of up tempo and tranquil rhythms that sound like
they might have come right out of Southern California. Denis Poole - Smooth Jazz Therapy

beautiful playing... Martin Taylor

Lee Jones has the dedication and raw ability to succeed internationally. He is an exceptional Guitarist and Jazz Composer...
Simon Tittley - Producer 'Swish' (Simon completed producing jazz guitarist Lee Jones' debut jazz/fusion album 'Swish' in mid-2007 and is now working on Lee's as yet untitled second album)
 

Jazz Workshops:
 Lee is also keen to impart his skills to fellow Students of Jazz and can hold Workshop/Master Class projects in Colleges, Theatres, Studios and other suitable venues.  These can be linked up with daytime assemblies at any of the evening Concert Venues.

  • Details:
    Guitar Jazz Workshops provides a platform for seasoned professionals and total beginners alike can learn, grow and flourish together in a uniquely inspiring and supportive environment.
     One day workshop lasting 3 hours, would consist of:-
     ·         up and medium tempo grooves
     ·         contemporary jazz styles
    .         Improvisation
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