Artist description COLMAN JONES is an award-winning writer, investigative journalist, broadcaster, musician and composer, whose career has included 17 years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), writing and narrating (in many cases scoring) over a dozen radio documentaries since 1988, several shows winning awards from the Canadian Science Writers' Association, and currently doing investigative research for CBC-TV's consumer affairs show Marketplace. An accomplished musician, Jones also maintains a home office/studio, where he composes and records original music for use in radio and television documentaries, as well as Internet-based applications.

Music Style Progressive classical experimental ambient New Age

Musical Influences Pre-1980 Genesis and especially solo members Anthony Phillips, Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel; Brian Eno; Harold Budd; Jane Siberry; Rebecca Campbell; Michael Nyman; Penguin Cafe Orchestra; Pat Metheny; Brand X; Tangerine Dream; Vangelis; Jean-Michel Jarre; Pink Floyd; Supertramp, early Elton John; Debussy; Chopin; Johann Gambolputty.. etc.. etc.. etc.. von Hautkopft of Ulm

Similar Artists Harold Budd, Tony Banks (instrumental), Anthony Phillips, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, etc.

Artist History Colman's years as a musician began in the 1970s at Upper Canada College, playing in high school rock bands with names like VISION and S.K.L.A.R.B. (the Space Kinetic Library And Research Band). After graduating, he worked with schoolchum Reeves Miller, accompanying singers Gayle Manley and Mary-Jo Maur, also teaming up with Reeves' older brother Clark, forming a country rock trio called The Miller Brothers. Reeves and Colman also performed and recorded with rock band The Heat, winners of Toronto radio station Q107's 1980 Homegrown Contest, and later branched off on their own, forming top 40 duos Crossover and Twilight. But Colman's taste in more cerebral, progressive sounds led him to seek out more innovative outfits like the bands 241-2121 and NRG, performing live soundtracks to films, including Fritz Lang's 1926 classic Metropolis at various theatres in Toronto. Colman has also performed solo, appearing as Musician of the Month on the Rogers Cable TV weekly magazine show Metro Focus 90, and during a stay in England, he played a number cocktail piano gigs in London, including a regular engagement at the French House, one of London's famous Soho pubs. After a few years' hiatus, Colman's musical career witnessed a revival in 1992, when he joined a Toronto-based busking trio named Holy Smoke - featuring singer Gwyneth Baillie, who Colman later accompanied when she later branched out into a solo career. Colman has also performed with singers Marie-Lynn Hammond (formally of the 1970s folk group Stringband)and Gloria Shrieve, guitarist/composer Michael Keith, and most recently Toronto acid jazz/R&B/triphop/funk outfit The Roach Motel. Colman maintains his own home recording studio/office, where he is currently assembling a CD collection of music from over the last two decades, a small sampling of which he has performed at Toronto's Free Times Cafe and the Joseph D. Carrier and Circa 1506 art galleries.

Group Members 1

Instruments Keyboards, sequencers, computers, digital delay, mixing boards, odd percussion instruments, cellophane, old copies of "Newsweek", carburretor, zone boxes, frequency eater, the odd sock, etc., etc.

Albums Inner Echoes (in production)

Press Reviews coming, coming.. (write one!)

Additional Info Also in the works is a multimedia web site to accompany the CD's release, featuring audio excerpts, extensive text and graphics, and some cool interactive features - all presented in an online environment designed to compliment the overall themes of the work. Stay tuned!

Location Toronto, Ontario - Canada

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).