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Biography & Autobiography Cultural Heritage

Oliver Jones

by (author) Marthe Sansregret

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2006
Category
Cultural Heritage, Jazz, Composers & Musicians
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770706668
    Publish Date
    Jan 2006
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

Born in Montreal, Oliver Jones performed his first piano concert at five years old. He has become one of the most celebrated representatives of the Montreal Jazz Festival and a worldwide musical ambassador for Canada on many international tours. This exclusive authorized biography begins with his roots the enslavement of his African ancestors and immigration of his parents to Canada from Barbados and takes us to the present.

Oliver Jones has received many awards to recognize his achievements, both as a musician and as a human being: the Martin Luther King Award, a Juno Award, the Cool Jazz Award of the Izzy Asper Foundation, the Order of Canada, the Order of Quebec, the Oscar Peterson Award, the Governor Generals Performing Arts Award, and in 2006, two National Jazz Awards: Best Jazz Keyboard of the Year and Best CD with Ranee Lee for their album Just You, Just Me

About the author

Marthe Sansregret, a native Montrealer, holds a PhD from the Université de Montréal. She has nurtured a lifelong love of music, especially jazz and blues, and communicates this passion in her portrait of Oliver Jones.

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