• About •
JJ Jones was born 1966 in Detroit.
Berlin
In 1996 JJ Jones began working as an active performance artist and singer in Berlin, mainly as the lead singer of the trash art ensemble Fuzzy Love. He was also active with a re-launch of the cult 80s band Der Plan, among other projects.
Nashville
In Nashville, he expanded his musical perspectives, singing in a Serbian orthodox church choir, and writing and singing solos for a number of other churches. At the same time, he founded ecclesiaudio, a musical collaborative project where he began to experiment with pure improvisation. His less spiritual pursuits in the USA involved performances as The Human Snow Globe, singing kitschy covers of Christmas songs inside an inflatable bubble.
Photo: Ingeborg Martens
Back in Munich
Photo: Peter Wilson
Back in Munich, Germany, JJ Jones worked musically on radio plays, such as the award-winning Rauschunterdrückung from Ulrich Bassenge and film soundtracks like Sommer in Orange, as well as with the band Tosca (by Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber) on their album Odeon.
Photo: Valentin Brandes
Since 2012, he has hosted and conceived the event Same Old Song, in which several live acts interpret a single song in a variety of ways for one evening.
His latest work is a solo piece, Vox on Vinyl, an aural collage that combines the recording of Nils Frahm with vocal interpretations of the texts of Meister Eckhard and David Bowie.
Influences
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These are some of the artists that inspired me over the years. My first favorite single was „ABC“ by the Jackson 5, but I learned to love and sing so many wonderful songs over the years.
Above you can see little John the age of 6 years.
Listen to the Playlist on Spotify
Artist Resume
Bio
2013
Umzug nach München. Gründung der Veranstaltungsreihe Same Old Song, Mitwirkung bei vielen Bandprojekten (u.a. Edlrost, Son of a Groove, Bigband Dachau)
2006 – 13
Aufenthalt in Nashville, Human Snow Globe performance, ecclesiaudio improv Gründung
2000
Gründung der Band Fuzzy Love in Berlin. Internationale Auftritte, u.a. für das Goethe-Institut, zwei CD-Veröffentlichungen
1999
Co-producer and co-writer „Come Unto Me: The Faces of Tyree Guyton“, Emmy Award for best film editing for Po Kutchins
1994
BA in Film & Video Studies from the University of Michigan
Highlights
2022
- Formation of the band Sheer Cerebral Power with Azhar Kamal
2020
- Premiere of the solo performance Vox on Vinyl
2019
- Same Old Song: „Another Brick in the Wall“
- CD release: Bigband Dachau feat. Jimi Tenor
- Bigband Dachau at Oktoberfest, Müchen (Herzkasperlzelt)
- Same Old Song: „Aicha“ for Bellevue Monaco, Munich
- Release of „Luxury“ (Takthor feat. John Jones)
2018
- Same Old Song: „The Winner Takes It all” at Brecht Festival in Augsburg and Milla Club in Munich
- Performances with Bigband Dachau, winner of Tassilo-Kulturpreis of Süddeutsche Zeitung
- Edlrost @ Streetlife Festival und Tollwood, Munich
- Same Old Song: „YMCA“
- Human Snow Globe Performance, Nashville USA
- Release of „Christmas in a Bubble“ on I Am That Music (Eigenlabel)