"It starts with a left hand
that won't quit. That left hand walks some bass lines up the keyboard that are
so powerful they could swing the vault door off the Federal Reserve Bank. Or it
rips off some wildly intricate stride piano figures. On top to that, jazz pianist
MIKE JONES adds right-hand lyricism and filigree of sublime virtuosity and invention. His
concert last year was recorded and has been released recently on one of the great
live performance jazz records in the past 30 years -- "Running Wild"
on Chiaroscuro Records. Virtuosity and an elephant's memory for some of the best
American popular music of the past 80 years." -THE BUFFALO NEWS |