Fernando Jones

b. c. 1964, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Reputedly, Jones started playing acoustic guitar and writing tunes at age four; certainly, he was quite definitely alert to the blues from an early on age. A mature sibling was a blues performer and a cousin, Lefty Dizz, was a specialist blues guitarist. Partly through the second option, Jones became familiar with bluesmen, picking right up ideas, technique and a deep and abiding desire for the history from the blues. He analyzed in the University or college of Illinois, Chicago, where he co-produced blues concerts, graduating in 1987. Then began creating a profession that runs through various areas of the executing arts. Furthermore to playing and performing in clubs with festivals, Jones in addition has appeared frequently on television. He’s also a article writer and instructor. In the previous capacity, he’s the author of the 1989 memoir, which he afterwards modified for the stage. Being a instructor he provides lectured thoroughly and in the first 00s was mounted on the faculty at Columbia University, focusing on a blues training course. He’s also creator of Blues Children of America, a business targeted at widening knowledge of the function and content from the blues. Jones’ curiosity about the origins from the blues hasn’t mired him before. He’s outspoken in his perception the fact that blues must develop and he provides continued to create first music throughout his profession, resulting in his latter-day repertoire becoming constructed almost completely from his personal compositions. Therefore, when he modified his memoir like a stage play with music, beneath the title, I HAD BEEN There When The Blues Was Crimson Hot!, the story was historically accurate as the music was initial. The play was offered in Chicago and was extremely praised by viewers and critics and he was nominated for any Black Theater Alliance Award.