How old is paul ubana jones

Jones has for three decades been known as a hard-working, well-travelled, highly respected, incredibly gifted musician and entertainer. When he plays, audiences pay attention. Friday, November 12, Home Art Entertainment Road to respect deservedly earned.

McCamish takes photo finish Staff - November 12, Service medal net widens for veterans Staff - November 12, Although not an international star, Paul Ubana Jones has gained fans in parts of Australia, Europe and North America, and few performers have toured New Zealand so extensively.

Jones picked up the guitar at age eleven and his earliest influences included Ray Charles and Mahalia Jackson but Bob Dylan made the greater impression; Dylan songs still feature in his repertoire.

At age 18, he began three years of formal training at Chiswick Music School, studying classical guitar and cello. Jones says, "I believe that to learn your craft you should study the whole landscape of music — Elgar, Mahler, Beethoven; diversity will benefit you, whether your music is reggae, rock or blues. It was this interest in diversity which saw Paul Ubana Jones play a variety of musical styles throughout the s - he performed baroque and renaissance music as part of a trio two guitars and flute and played rhythm guitar in a be-bop group.

In he played electric guitar in an Athens nightclub band featuring an eight-piece brass section with a drummer. Later back in London he then put his own band together named Ubana without a drummer but with a monster Brazilian conga player and percussionist, Jao Boscoe d'Oliviera — "we didn't want a drum kit drummer, just congas and double bass to get the groove. Six months in Greece, 18 months in the south of France, sporadic visits to North Africa and 10 months in the USA "still hung up with race issues" ; for seven years he was based out of Zurich, Switzerland.

He played clubs, pubs and small concert halls; busking was always another option. Along the way Paul Ubana Jones developed his own style, composing his own songs and rearranging the music of others, "mostly a melange of black American music and English folk.

In he met his future wife, Corinne, and after holidaying in New Zealand decided to immigrate. It was in Raglan where Gary McCormick came across Jones and invited the recently-arrived immigrant to Gisborne, to discuss a series of collaborative performances, the first of many tours together. Jones' recording career began in with a self-titled album; Pagan remains his record company although he has also recorded an album, I Need A Storm for Chicago's Flying Fish Records.

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