Joe Armon-Jones Explained

Birth Name:	Joe Armon-Jones
Joe Armon-Jones
Landscape:	yes
Birth Place:	Oxfordshire, England
Occupation:	Composer, producer
Instruments:	Keyboards
Years Active:	2016—present
Label:	Brownswood, YAM, Aquarii
Current Member Of:	Ezra Collective

Joseph Armon-Jones (born February 1993) is a British musician, keyboardist, composer, producer and bandleader.

His debut album, Starting Today, was released in May 2018 and his second album, Turn To Clear View, was released in September 2019. Time magazine listed the 2019 release as one of the top 10 albums of the year.^[1] ^[2] Aside from his solo work, he is a member of Ezra Collective^[3] and Nubya Garcia's band.^[4]

Background

Joe Armon-Jones was born in Oxfordshire to musician parents, his mother being a singer and his father a jazz pianist.^[5] He was educated at Eton College.^[6]

He attended the workshops of Tomorrow's Warriors under the direction of bass player Gary Crosby, where he met and became a founding member of the group Ezra Collective. Armon-Jones graduated from Trinity Laban with a Bachelor of Music degree in 2016.^[7] Among his graduating class were Nubya Garcia and Moses Boyd.

Discography

As leader

Idiom (Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin, YAM Records, 2017)
Starting Today (Brownswood, 2018)
Turn to Clear View (Brownswood, 2019)
A Way Back (Joe Armon-Jones & Mala, Aquarii Records, 2022)
Archetype (Aquarii Records, 2023)

With Ezra Collective

Chapter 7 (2016)
Juan Pablo: The Philosopher (Enter the Jungle, 2017)
You Can't Steal My Joy, (Enter the Jungle, 2019)
Where I'm Meant to Be (Partisan, 2022)

As sideman

Nubya Garcia, Nubya's 5ive (Jazz Refreshed, 2017)
Moses Boyd, Displaced Diaspora (Exodus, 2018)
Various artists, We Out Here (Brownswood, 2018)
SEED Ensemble, Driftglass (Jazz Refreshed, 2019)
Binker Golding, Abstractions of Reality (2019)
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela, Rejoice (World Circuit/BMG, 2020)
Moses Boyd, Dark Matter (Exodus, 2020)
Nubya Garcia, Source (Concord Jazz, 2020)
Keleketla!, Keleketla! (Ahead of Our Time, 2020)
Gilles Peterson, MV4 (Brownswood, 2020)

Awards

2019 Jazz FM Awards – UK Jazz Act of the Year – Nominee^[8]
2019 Worldwide Awards – Best Album – Nominee^[9]
2019 Worldwide Awards – Session of the Year – Winner^[10]
2020 Urban Music Awards – Best Jazz Act – Nominee^[11]
2020 Jazz FM Awards – UK Jazz Act of the Year – Nominee^[12]
2020 MOBO Awards – Best Jazz Act – Nominee^[13]

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Chow . Andrew . The 10 Best Albums of 2019 . Time Magazine . Time USA . 27 November 2019. 7 December 2020.
Web site: Top 100 Albums of the Year . Rough Trade . 7 December 2020.
Web site: Madden . Sidney . Ezra Collective Sets The 'Quest For Coin' To A Fast-Paced Jazz Soundtrack . NPR . 13 February 2019 . 7 December 2020.
Web site: Beta . Andy . Nubya Garcia – Source . Pitchfork . 7 December 2020.
Web site: Joe Armon-Jones: 'Reading a review is like someone coming up to you on the street and saying, "Your kid's ugly!. Dhruva. Balram. NME. 24 September 2019.
Web site: Review of the Lent Half - Music . 2023-01-25 . Eton College . en-GB.
Web site: Joe Armon-Jones. Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. 7 August 2022.
Web site: Jazz FM . 2019 Awards . Jazz FM Awards . Jazz FM.
Web site: Worldwide Awards . Gilles Peterson . Worldwide . 7 December 2020.
Web site: Worldwide FM . Worldwide Awards 2019 . Gilles Peterson Worldwide . 1 February 2019. 7 December 2020.
Web site: UMA Team . Nominations for the 17th edition of the annual Urban Music Awards 2020 . Urban Music Awards . 20 December 2019 . 7 December 2020.
Web site: Jazz FM . 2020 Awards . Jazz FM Awards . 7 December 2020.
Web site: MOBO AWARDS RETURNS ON 9 DECEMBER! . MOBO . 23 November 2020. 7 December 2020.