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My Take
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.
Overview
Rodney Jones (born August 30, 1956) is an American jazz guitarist who worked with Jaki Byard, Chico Hamilton, Dizzy Gillespie, and Lena Horne and as a bandleader. He is cited as a jazz guitarist who uses modern quartal harmony. Jones is a faculty member at Juilliard.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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 69)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Monkey
- Origin
- New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- jazz musician / jazz guitarist / musician / composer / bassist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- City College of New York
Awards & achievements
- 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.