Stuart Jones (musician)

Stuart Jones was born in Birmingham, England, where he has lived ever since. At the age of five he began playing musical instruments by ear and found he had an overwhelming tendency to improvise in any style and to 'jazz things up'. His parents arranged classical training for him from the age of nine and by the age of twelve he was playing piano semi-professionally in clubs alongside such names as Lenny Henry and Les Dawson. In addition to this Stuart was always composing tunes using a technique called 'Instant Emotional Composition' and from school he went straight into music, professionally. Since then he has written and recorded numerous albums in all styles including Classical, Jazz, Dance, Pop-Funk, New Age, Experimental and a genre he has originated called ‘Piano Speed Funk’. His acoustic piano speed funk is well known on [http://www.youtube.com/blistermusic YouTube] having amassed millions of viewings and complimentary comments. This has lead to live concerts all across America, France, Holland and Britain. By sharp contrast his soothing, ultimately mellow, heartfelt melodies are equally as popular on these video services. Twenty-five of his albums are published and released in over fifty countries. He believes that music can affect your mental and physical wellbeing and much of his work is dedicated to improving the quality of peoples' lives through his mood music. When composing, he simply hits the record button and plays his emotions on piano. These are often the finished product and he just adds orchestration to complete.

He plays live regularly as a solo artist on grand piano, with his piano-duelling duo 'Blister' and with his pop-funk band. He has performed over five thousand live concerts to audiences ranging from 2 to 350,000 people.

Stuart has written a stage musical about the colourful world of the music industry. It features most of his styles and is being performed in theatres across the country in 2008. Its debut at the ‘Midlands Arts Centre’ in January was a sell out.

He has composed a highly melodic symphony, ‘Depictions of Love’ and is working on a modern ‘Concerto for Keyboards’ featuring abstract and futuristic acoustic piano speed sync.

Stuart’s music is heard regularly on global and national television including BB1, BBC2, ITV,Channel 4, Channel 5 etc. His most recent success is having his music on the worldwide soap ‘Emmerdale’.

Stuart has many albums/DVDs published under pseudonyms such as [http://www.watermusicrecords.com/Product.php?upc=08762 Stuart Michael] and [http://www.northstarmusic.co.uk SJ Bluewater] and his compositions/recordings appear on charting DVDs and albums with artists such as Craig David and Debbie Harry in the style of dance music, and Mozart and Debussy (Deutsche Grammophon label) in the style of classical music.

Stuart’s piano duelling duo, [http://www.myspace.com/blisterduo Blister] has just released a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2QsgfOSABk Tuition DVD] following enormous demand from the USA for their original styles of fusion and acoustic sync-funk.

External links

* [http://www.stuartjonesmusic.co.uk Stuart Jones Home Page]
* [http://www.newworldmusic.com/uk/search.php?jssCart=aac6a6a30231388f6cc3356228123496 Stuart Jones At New World Records]