Biography
jenny's tribe is centered around the song writing of Boston-based Jenny Elizabeth Jones who says she's "only a vessel" for the great creative force that seems to live in her. She feels the stories well up in her where she's knows it's a good one when she cries after writing the lyrics down for the first time.
One of the many results of a music teacher for a mother and too much time alone as a kid, Jenny has become an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and lyricist. She started on the violin at five years old, adding piano to the mix through grammar school. While she continued to dabble with the keys, she put the violin down in favor of a left-handed drum kit when she was 11 and first got involved in rock bands through the drums. After burning her way through metal and hard rock music known for the complicated rhythms during her stint in college, Jenny found getting a metal drumming gig as a short-haired chick completely impossible and threw her energy into learning the guitar. She's been writing songs ever since.
As a side to her tunes she performs both solo and with her band, she's broken the rules of hip-hop by adding violin to the sound of the Boston hip-hop group, Green Dimension. She came on board, fiddle in hand, to add something never heard before -- a worthy shred from an instrument normally relegated to classical and country. When Jenny's onstage, she plays the violin like a demon, holding on to that thin stack of wood like it was glued to her body.
Her solo work offers less opportunity for platform jumping and high kicks, but the intensely vivid, personal story lines grab you just as hard and her voice stays in your memory like deja vu.
* Honorable Mention: Mike Pinder's 2009 Song wars
* Feature: 2006 NYC Skylark Serices
* Feature: 10-2005 FeminineGroove Weekly Radio Show
* Feature: 2005 EvolvingArtist ITV
Instrumentation
Jenny is a stunning presence as a solo act or with a full band. The emotion she delivers in her songs reveal just how personal the words always are for her.
When the team plays, they switch it up, in terms of instruments, but the usual line-up is something like the following:
Jenny Jones: guitars, keys, violin, vox
Jamie Lonto: bass, 12-string guitar
Dave Arwine (formerly of Radioflier): backup vox, drums
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NECN's Coffehouse feature:
http://www.necn.com/Boston/Arts-Entertainment/2009/07/24/NECN-Coffeehouse-Jon/1248444058.html
2009 Mike Pinder's Song Wars: Honorable Mention for "Grateful"
Discography
"Alienlightenment", projected fall 2007: 14-song CD of straight up curvy rock asking the Universe what it all means anyway.
"Bedroom Sessions": a 9-song CD in the epic tradition of Tori Amos or Freddy Mercury. No three-minute pop tunes here! Grooving non-4/4 timings in surprising places, spirited strings from out of no where.
"Symptoms", 2004: 6-song EP from Jenny backed by the Immunity Project. Despite a bridge in 7/8 or the occasional 5/4 bar thrown in, these tunes move you.
"Complications of Love and Mother Earth", 2003: 20 song double CD of Jenny's latest solo work. It's all about the complications.
"Bittersweet", 2003: unreleased 6-song EP from Green Dimension, the band finds its own groove in this incredibly diverse compendium where the violin, vox, and verve make this band stand out.
"Green Dimension", 2002: 13 song self-titled debut CD of hip-hop that breaks the rules with violin as the musical melody maker. The one cover on this CD is an outstanding rendition of School House Rock's "Interjections" where Jenny not only sings the main lyrics with as much passion as the original, but adds incredible voice-overs for all the speaking parts.
Links
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