Under The Setting Sun, Peter Jones’s album of self-penned tunes, has just been released, distributed by Discovery Records. It features Anthony Kerr on vibes, Vasilis Xenopoulos on flute/tenor saxophone, Neil Angilley on piano, Andy Hamill on double bass and Davide Giovannini on drums. Jazz FM’s Chris Philips, Helen Mayhew, Jez Nelson and Sarah Ward have all played tracks.
(Full CD review here.)
(Interview here.)
The launch gig (review here) took place on Saturday 26 August at London’s Jazz Cafe Posk, with Roger Beaujolais on vibes and Davide Mantovani on bass – other personnel were as on the album.
Sunday 24 September – Bateaux, Embankment Pier
Tuesday 26 September – The Greystoke, Ealing cancelled
Thursday 28 September – Hedsor Jazz Club
Thursday 5 October – N2O Bar, Lausanne, Switzerland
Saturday 7 October – Hessel Espace Culturel, Orbe, Switzerland
Sunday 15 October – Bateaux, Embankment Pier
Wednesday 8 November – Mill Hill Jazz Club
Sunday 12 November – The Boaters, Kingston
Tuesday 19 December – East Grinstead Jazz Club
(Full gig details here.)
Peter Jones is an experienced and versatile jazz singer who has played all over London and the southeast with some of the UK’s finest musicians. His three albums to date have received rave reviews. Peter’s second album Utopia, released in February 2016, featured Neil Angilley and Davide Giovannini, plus Nigel Price on guitar and Henry Lowther on trumpet, with Misha Mullov-Abbado on double bass. It won plaudits from Jazzwise magazine, BBC 6Music’s Gilles Peterson and Jazz FM’s Sarah Ward, who played tracks on her Dinner Jazz show. Tracks have also been played on BBC Radio London, Soulpower Radio, Radio X (Frankfurt), Meridian FM, Croydon Radio and Marlow FM. And in a year-end poll, London Jazz News’s Mark McKergow named it his CD of 2016.
Peter has been building a reputation as a jazz singer ever since his first album One Way Ticket to Palookaville, was released in 2013, again with Vasilis Xenopoulos, Neil and Davide, plus Geoff Gascoyne (bass). ‘Great arrangements… a killer band. This debut album has lots to recommend it,’ reported Jazzwise magazine.
A talented lyricist, Peter has added words to some jazz classics that didn’t previously have any. With a large and growing repertoire of tunes, he has performed headline gigs at prestigious venues like The Pheasantry, Toulouse Lautrec, The Bull’s Head, The Boaters, Mill Hill Jazz Club, Twickenham Jazz Club, Leamington Jazz Club, The Langham Hotel, The Spice of Life, Oliver’s in Greenwich and Rincon in Richmond, plus guest spots at Ronnie Scott’s and the 606 Club.
Recently he has been working with the Mü Orchestra to develop jazz renditions of classic tunes by Steely Dan and Donald Fagen. These were premiered at Toulouse Lautrec in December 2016.
Peter’s forthcoming book – This Is Hip: The Life of Mark Murphy – is due from Equinox Publishing in April 2018. Short interview about this with Gilles Peterson here.
Since the end of 2014 Peter has also been contributing reviews and articles to London Jazz News.
Interview (April 2015) with London Jazz News here.
The Mü Orchestra –