Darius Jones is an extraordinarily gifted alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader. He joined the New York music community in 2005, after living and studying in Richmond, VA. In his short time there, he has amazed and inspired musicians and audiences from widely divergent backgrounds with his meticulously honed musical gifts. Soul-power is at his foundation; forward looking expression always at the fore. "It's always very exciting when you come across a new name in the music, and especially someone with a fully formed, distinctive sound." -BBC, Jazz on 3 "A head full of ideas and a heart full of talent. He never wastes a note or a breath." — Jazz Times "One of the most impressive debuts in recent memory, displaying a remarkably well-developed concept and individual sound. .. It's defiant, vulnerable, proud, and weary; there is laughter and sobbing in it. He imbues simple melodies and phrases with huge emotional weight. — Point of Departure "with expressive glissandi as opulently sensual as that of Johnny Hodges, and a knack for flipping innocent melodic utterances into lines fraught with chancy harmonic and rhythmic ambiguities, Jones' concept is proudly his own." — The Wire "brimming with intricacy and raw, soulful invention." — Signal To Noise
