J.C. Jones

J.C. Jones: Hosting Myself

by Karl A.D. Evangelista
March 7, 2007

Outline and mien peg J.C. Jones as the prototypal improvising bassist--long and lanky, slumped into his instrument with a sort of focal intensity, like a surgeon--or a butcher--teasing at thick guts. The cover photo of Hosting Myself has all the bearings of an ancient iconology, and there are surely mystical undertones to that title--as if Jones's music were an act of self-sacrifice, a sonic communion.

As a bassist in the solo idiom, Jones engages among the holiest of practices; the ...

J.C. Jones With Friends: Duos II

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 17, 2005

Israeli bassist Jean-Claude Jones--born in Tunisia, raised in France, and educated at Berklee in Boston--is one of the dedicated forerunners of the small community of free jazz players in Israel. In the last years his activity focused on intimate improvised encounters with local kindred souls--musicians, poets, vocal artists, and dancers, very often in duos, in the same manner as the late great bassist Peter Kowald did along the years ( Duos, FMP, 1991; Duos 2: Europe America Japan, FMP, 2003). ...