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Oliver Jones
Oliver (*1934) is a Canadian jazz pianist, organist, composer and arranger. He began his
career as a pianist at the age of five, studying with Mme Bonner in Little Burgundy's
Union United Church, made famous by Trevor W. Payne's Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir.
He continued to develop his talent through his studies with Oscar Peterson's sister Daisy
Peterson Sweeney starting at eight years old. In addition to performing at Union United
Church when he was a child, he also performed a solo novelty act at the Cafe St. Michel as
well as other clubs and theaters in the Montreal area.
He started his early touring in Vermont and Quebec with a band called Bandwagon, and in 1953 through 1963 played mainly in the Montreal area, with tours in Quebec. From 1964 to 1980 Jones was music director for the Jamaican calypso singer Kenny Hamilton, based out of Puerto Rico. In late 1980 he teamed up with Montreal's Charlie Biddle, working in and around local clubs and hotel lounges in Montreal. Jones was resident pianist at Charlie Biddle's jazz club Biddles from 1981 to 1986. By the mid-1980s he was travelling throughout Canada, appearing at festivals, concerts and clubs, either as a solo artist or with a trio: Skip Bey, Bernard Primeau, and Archie Alleyne. His travels also took him to Europe during this period. His tour of Nigeria was the subject of a 1990 National Film Board of Canada documentary, Oliver Jones in Africa. His music also appears in the NFB animated short film, Black Soul. In 2011 he was one of the big names on the line up of the P.E.I. Jazz and Blues Festival at Charlottetown. Jones was headliner for the Jazz Sudbury Festival 2013 from Wikipedia |
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Highway To Heaven Justin Time Records recorded December 1985 at St. James United Church in Montreal/Canada |
Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir: Cecile Barrett, vocals Salome Bey, vocals Donna Blunt, vocals Michelle A. Browne, vocals Petula Clark, vocals Claudelle Clarke, vocals Susan I. Clarke, vocals Anne E. Corbin, vocals Faye D. Corbin, vocals Jennifer Allen, vocals Germaine Davis, vocals Ruth R. Ambris, vocals Jean T. C. Cambridge, vocals Jeff Alleyne, bass, vocals J.I.M. Ashby, bass, vocals Phyllis Dickson , vocals Jon Durant, vocals Nicole Johnson, vocals Beatrice Langford, vocals Don L. Marsman, vocals Terry J. McGimpsey, vocals Vicki Pointer, vocals Jennifer Sargeant, vocals Earl Tabb, vocals Rolanda Taylor, vocals Sonia Taylor, vocals Stacie Tabb, alto sax, vocals Gerald Constant, tenor sax Kathleen Dyson, tenor sax, guitar, vocals Brian Harris, tenor sax, vocals Patrick Saunders, tenor sax, vocals Kingsley Sherwood, tenor sax, vocals Clement C. Walker, tenor sax, vocals Edward Watson, tenor sax, vocals Audrey Walters, vocals Andrea G. Weekes, vocals Andrea D. Yearwood, vocals Oliver Jones, organ James Oliver, bass, organ Trevor W. Payne, piano Graham Chambers, drums |
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