Sean Jones, steps away
Sean Jones and most of humanity are within 6 degrees of each other. This matrix combines the small-world principle behind this seemingly magical fact with inter-artist recommendations-in-series in order to make all artists potential curators and discoverable within a handful (or two) of steps from everywhere on the planet. It works like this:
I RECOMMEND people (do you?)Sean Jones & degrees of proximity
Why again is Sean Jones mere steps away from other artists in here, and by extension, most everybody on the planet?
WHO CURATES "I RECOMMEND" ABOVE?
- Vertex/Edges Out by: The Matrix via ↴
Artist & Where
- Name: Sean Jones
- City/Place: Baltimore, Maryland
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Warren, Ohio
Life & Work
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Bio:
Music and spirituality have always been fully intertwined in the artistic vision of trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and activist Sean Jones. Singing and performing as a child with the church choir in his hometown of Warren, Ohio, Sean switched from the drums to the trumpet at the age of 10.
Sean is a musical chameleon and is comfortable in any musical setting no matter what the role or the genre. He is equally adept in being a member of an ensemble as he is at being a bandleader. Sean turned a 6-month stint with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra into an offer from Wynton Marsalis for a permanent position as lead trumpeter, a post he held from 2004 until 2010. In 2015 Jones was tapped to become a member of the SFJAZZ Collective where he was a member until 2018. During this time, Sean has managed to keep a core group of talented musicians together under his leadership forming the foundation for his groups that have produced and released eight recordings on the Mack Avenue Records, the latest is his 2017 release Sean Jones: Live from the Jazz Bistro.
Sean has been prominently featured with a number of artists, recording and/or performing with many major figures in jazz, including Illinois Jacquet, Jimmy Heath, Frank Foster, Nancy Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Gerald Wilson and Marcus Miller. Sean was selected by Miller, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter for their Tribute to Miles tour in 2011.
He has also performed with the Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Youngstown Symphony Orchestras as well as Soulful Symphony in Baltimore and in a chamber group at the Salt Bay Chamber Festival.
Sean is also an internationally recognized educator. He was recently named the Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair of Jazz at John Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute in Baltimore. Before coming to Peabody, Sean served as the Chair of the Brass Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Contact Information
- Contact by Webpage: http://www.sean-jones.com/contact
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Management/Booking:
Management
Andre Guess
andre@guessworks.com
PR contact
Maureen McFadden
DL Media, Inc.
www.dlmediamusic.com
maureen@dlmediamusic.com
Booking
Unlimited Myles, Inc.
Myles Weinstein, President
www.unlimitedmyles.com
myles@unlimitedmyles.com
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: sjonesjazz
- ▶ Instagram: sjonesjazz
- ▶ Website: http://www.sean-jones.com
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCgQ4IaHPEFM3LKdo_NiVuWg
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2mCP8qyCiPYZ2jG4g2G3Td
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/5RGppOS03ZjKZp2Gyl8NPq
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/4B0rVeAVLyAlqNBsG3PLnG
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/6A1TFg3jjPyZX6Sqs5hbcK
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/6xbeT4ZXMjGbi55VPIBR1O
- ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/3cNzYH7Ikm3gPqkVWpAkjz
Clips (more may be added)
ABOUT THE MATRIX
This matrix is dedicated to creative artists and non-algorithmic discovery.
It was described (to some degree) and can be accessed via this article in British journal The Guardian (which named our radio of matrixed artists as one of ten best in the world):
www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world
While the Brazilian musicians I work with now you may not know, I formerly worked (chasing unpaid royalties!) on behalf of Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Jim Hall, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Philip Glass, The Cadillacs (Earl Carroll), The Flamingos (Zeke and Jake Carey), and others, including Oscar-winning world-class great-guy Robb Royer. I was interviewed by David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio several years ago ... about the Brazilians:
- Randy "Pardal/Sparrow" Roberts
All is more connected than we know.
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
The matrix was inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone...
Our logo, per the "spirit" above, is a cortador de cana, a cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specialized in. The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it dances and sings.
