Winter 2012 Ottawa Jazz Festival: Oliver Jones Trio at Dominion Chalmers United Church
Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 7 p.m.
Tickets:$33.50 (general admission), $43.50 (reserved seating) (Available by phone or website from the Ottawa Jazz Festival)
- Oliver Jones - piano
- Eric Lagace - bass
- Jim Doxas - drums
Disciple and friend of Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones' career as a jazz musicians peaked later in life. Gifted with amazing technique, he first mastered classical music before moving on to a wider variety of musical genres. His fostered a growing affinity for jazz in the 1980s when he signed with the Justin Time label and started making concert appearances all over the world.
Jones has won Juno (the Canadian Grammy) awards in 1986, 1990, and 2006, and Félix Awards in 1989 and 1994. The album Just You, Just Me also won “recording of the year”, and Jones “keyboardist of the year”, from the National Jazz Awards in 2006. He’s also the proud recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. award, celebrating his contributions to the Black Community in Canada and in his native Montreal. In 1993 he received the Order of Québec, the province’s highest honor, and the next year he was awarded the Order of Canada, for “outstanding achievement in the arts.” 2005 saw Oliver being honored in Ottawa by Canada’s new Governor General Michaëlle Jean, as a recipient of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for “lifetime artistic achievement”.
See our story about the 2012 Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival.
www.justin-time.com/artists.php?lang=en&aid=283
inter-jazz.com/web/artists/oliver-jones/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Jones_%28pianist%29
Dominion Chalmers United Church
355 Cooper St.
Ottawa