Patrick Stanfield Jones
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Patrick Stanfield Jones is a musician and singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 whose music is a mix of rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

, jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, and blues. He is a brother of transsexual jazz percussionist Koko Jones
Koko Jones
Koko Jones, formerly known as Bujo Kevin Jones, is an African-American transgendered jazz percussionist and band leader based in New Jersey. Bill Milkowski of JazzTimes described his first album, Tenth World, produced by Babatunde Lea, as combining "the spirit of Africa with modern jazz on his...

, and they have performed and recorded together. He has been a member of the touring casts of Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...

and Oh, Calcutta!. Both Jones brothers performed on Jana Herzen
Jana Herzen
Jana Herzen is a singer-songwriter with folk, world, rock and jazz influences who founded Motéma Music, a Harlem-based record label focused on virtuosic jazz and world music. Prior to founding the label in 2003, she worked as a musician , an art agent for Winston Smith, who designed the logo for...

's Soup's on Fire album, which brought them both to Motéma Music
Motéma Music
Motéma Music is an American record label focused on jazz and world music, as well as other creative projects by virtuosic musicians who also compose. It was founded by Jana Herzen in 2003, and is now based in Harlem, New York City...

. He has performed on more than 20 albums. His solo CDs include A Heart and an Open Road (Motéma Music
Motéma Music
Motéma Music is an American record label focused on jazz and world music, as well as other creative projects by virtuosic musicians who also compose. It was founded by Jana Herzen in 2003, and is now based in Harlem, New York City...

, 2011), Pat Jones Band (1995), and the EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

, Mystery Prize (2004). He has been compared to Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins
Carl Lee Perkins was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954...

, but with a more modern sensibility.

Band

  • drummer Don Gardner
    Don Gardner
    Don Gardner is an American rhythm and blues drummer and vocalist.Born in Philadelphia, Gardner had formed his own group, the Sonotones, in 1953, but teamed up with Dee Dee Ford in the early 1960s to have his biggest successes. Their biggest hit was "I Need Your Lovin'," a Top 20 hit in 1962...

     (John Pizzarelli
    John Pizzarelli
    John Paul Pizzarelli, Jr. is an American jazz guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader. He has had a lengthy career as a recording artist, performing for a variety of labels that include Telarc Records, RCA Records and Chesky Records, among others...

    , Mike Stern
    Mike Stern
    Mike Stern is an American jazz guitarist. After playing for a few years with Blood, Sweat & Tears, he landed a gig with Billy Cobham and then broke through with Miles Davis' comeback band from 1981 to 1983, and again in 1985. Since then, he launched a solo career, releasing more than a dozen albums...

    , The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
  • bassist Barry Wiesenfeld (Rick Danko
    Rick Danko
    Richard Clare "Rick" Danko was a Canadian musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band.-Early years :...

    , Steve Forbert
    Steve Forbert
    Steve Forbert is an American pop music singer-songwriter. He is best known for his song "Romeo's Tune", which reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980....

    )
  • keyboardist Rave Tesar (The Shirelles
    The Shirelles
    The Shirelles were an African-American girl group that achieved popularity in the early 1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Shirley Owens , Doris Coley , Addie "Micki" Harris , and Beverly Lee...

    , Angela Bofill
    Angela Bofill
    Angela Bofill is an American R&B vocalist and songwriter.Bofill was born to a Cuban father and a Puerto Rican mother; one of the first Latina singers to find success in the R&B market.She performed with Ricardo Marrero & the Group and Dance Theater of Harlem chorus prior to her 1978 debut album,...

    )

External links

  • Official Site
  • Patrick Stanfield Jones at Motéma Music
    Motéma Music
    Motéma Music is an American record label focused on jazz and world music, as well as other creative projects by virtuosic musicians who also compose. It was founded by Jana Herzen in 2003, and is now based in Harlem, New York City...

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