Scott Jones Progressive Arts Recording Artist

Hello, My name is Scott Jones, professional musician. My main musical styles are fusion, jazz, prog, blues...but I play just about everything, not to limit myself... My influences are very diverse. See influences page. I taught guitar and theory privately for 4 years from 1992-1996, going to students homes...had to streamline my schedule so I don't do it on a regular basis anymore... Last year, I was very fortunate to have my CD released on Allan Holdsworth's label, Gnarly Geezer Records... From that release, I received some great feedback from Steve Vai, Brett Garsed, Derryl Gabel, Shane Theriot, Greg Koch, Rusty Cooley... This year, I have switched labels to Progressive Arts Music, and have re-released the C.D. For this re-release, I went back into the studio and wrote 3 bonus tracks, and beefed up the guitar parts and the overall mix, making it a much better disc...(I also enhanced the C.D. with about 80 minutes of bonus mp3s in CD-ROM format, and 3 live video clips) I was very fortunate to have released this new version only a few months ago, to some very encouraging reviews... I'm fortunate to have been in Keyboard magazines Discoveries column, Recording magazine's Reader's tapes, Music and Computers magazine's Spotlight column. I have recently lined up Dave Weckl's keyboardist Steve Weingart and hopefully Steve Vai's drummer Virgil Donati, as well as producer/engineer Anton Pukshansky, for the next C.D. that I will be writing and recording this year, Anton is a Grammy award winner for his work on Santana's "Supernatural", and with this release, I hope to break new ground. I am also currently the band director, guitarist, and transcriber/arranger at my church in St. Louis. It is a contemporary service that has afforded me the great privilege of writing in every style imaginable and sharing my gifts to a congregation of 3-4000 people each week. This includes all vocal arranging, all transcribing, new instrumental arrangements of hymns and worship songs, new original songs, all orchestrations of horns, strings, piano, full rhythm section; in the styles of pop, country, jazz, orchestral...etc. It's a great life...!

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