Rodney Jones

Rodney Jones humbles me with his resume of collaborators alone: Dizzy Gillespie, Lena Horne, Chico Hamilton, Jaki Byard. To hold your own beside giants like that is its own kind of mastery. A New Haven native fluent in modern quartal harmony, he's a thinking man's guitarist who now passes the craft along on the Juilliard faculty, and his 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship proves he's still evolving. I have a soft spot for musicians who become teachers as well as players. His sound favors depth over flash, the kind of flavor that keeps revealing itself. This is music I'd happily sit with for hours.

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Name (English)

Rodney Jones

Name (Japanese)

ロドニー・ジョーンズ

Reading

ろどにー・じょーんず

Born

August 30, 1956 (age 70)

Origin

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Occupation

jazz musician / jazz guitarist / musician / composer / bassist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Monkey

University

City College of New York

Awards & achievements

• 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship

• Official sitehttps://www.rodneyjones.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney%20Jones%20(guitarist)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%89%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1325743

Tags

• Connecticut
• jazz musician
• jazz guitarist
• musician

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.