Tenor saxophonist/pianist/composer Jessica Jones is an innovative jazz educator and consultant, working with children on improvisation, composition, and oral traditions for Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jazz Camp for Female Instrumentalists (Pretoria, South Africa), Stanford Jazz Workshop, Brooklyn Friends School, and others. She has played with Joseph Jarman, Cecil Taylor, and Don Cherry. The primary outlet for her compositions for the past 20 years has been the Jessica Jones Quartet, a pianoless quartet which has several recordings out and has played many US festivals.
Ms. Jones' zeal for creating accessible music programs for youth led to her partnering with various organizations to found and direct music programs. These include a sleep-away jazz camp for kids, where all music is learned by ear, facilitated by the City of Oakland Cultural Arts Department; a songwriting program for incarcerated girls, facilitated by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency; “Jam Camp West,” a youth offshoot of the successful “Jazz Camp West,” Jazz at Lincoln Center’s JazzGirls Day; and the Visionary Youth Orchestra facilitated by the Vision Festival’s ‘Arts for Art’ organization among others. Through REVA, a wider constituency can be reached, and more programs can be launched to further access to arts education.
Ms. Jones' zeal for creating accessible music programs for youth led to her partnering with various organizations to found and direct music programs. These include a sleep-away jazz camp for kids, where all music is learned by ear, facilitated by the City of Oakland Cultural Arts Department; a songwriting program for incarcerated girls, facilitated by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency; “Jam Camp West,” a youth offshoot of the successful “Jazz Camp West,” Jazz at Lincoln Center’s JazzGirls Day; and the Visionary Youth Orchestra facilitated by the Vision Festival’s ‘Arts for Art’ organization among others. Through REVA, a wider constituency can be reached, and more programs can be launched to further access to arts education.xt goes here