Brad Jones (bassist)

Bradley Christopher Jones (born May 20, 1963, in New York City) is an American jazz bassist who performs on both bass guitar and double-bass.

Jones started on drums as a child and first began playing bass guitar at age 12. At age 18 he added double bass, studying under Lisle Atkinson, and he took a bachelor's degree in music education at Jersey City State College in 1986. In the late 1980s he worked regularly with Dave Tronzo and Jim Nolet, and played in the Jazz Passengers and in groups led by Marc Ribot.

In the 1990s he worked with Muhal Richard Abrams, Elvin Jones, Ornette Coleman, Carlos Garnett, Mark Taylor, Kazutoki Umezu, Misha Mengelberg, and Han Bennink.

He has led the groups AKA Alias featuring Curtis Fowlkes and David Gilmore, the Brad Jones Quartet with Greg Tardy and more recently Avant Lounge with Bruce Williams, Barney McAll, Bill Ware and Nate Smith.

Discography

 * Uncivilized Poise (Knitting Factory Works, 1999) with AKA Alias
 * Pouring My Heart In (Brad Jones Quartet, 2003) with the Brad Jones Quartet
 * The Embodiment (Senoj, 2009) with AKA Alias
 * Avant Lounge (Ropeadope, 2012) with Avant Lounge

As sideman
With Muhal Richard Abrams with Ray Anderson and Marty Ehrlich With Noël Akchoté With Lucian Ban With Don Byron With George Cartwright With Ornette Coleman With Elvis Costello With Dave Douglas With Francis Dunnery With Carlos Garnett With The Jazz Passengers With Elvin Jones With Sean Lennon With Dave Liebman With David Mead With Misha Mengelberg With Allison Moorer With Max Nagl With Roy Nathanson With Jim Nolet With Bobby Previte With Chuck Prophet With Marc Ribot With Roswell Rudd With Jamie Saft With Elliott Sharp With Vibes: Bill Ware and E.J. Rodriguez With Bill Ware With John Zorn
 * Blu Blu Blu (Black Saint, 1991)
 * Family Talk (Black Saint, 1993)
 * Think All, Focus One (Black Saint, 1995)
 * Song for All (Black Saint, 1995 [1997])
 * Hear You Say (Intuition, 2010)
 * Toi-Même (Winter & Winter, 2008)
 * Playground (Jazzaway, 2006)
 * Do the Boomerang: The Music of Junior Walker (Blue Note, 2006)
 * Love, Peace, and Soul (Savoy, 2011)
 * Dot (Cuneiform, 1994)
 * Tone Dialing (Harmolodic, 1995)
 * North (Deutsche Grammophon, 2003)
 * Freak In (RCA Bluebird, 2003)
 * Keystone (Greenleaf, 2005)
 * Moonshine (Greenleaf, 2007)
 * Spark of Being (Greenleaf, 2010)
 * Tall Blonde Helicopter (Atlantic, 1995)
 * Resurgence (Muse, 1996)
 * Fuego en Mi Alma (HighNote, 1997)
 * Under Nubian Skies (HighNote, 1999)
 * Broken Night Red Light (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 1987)
 * Deranged & Decomposed (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 1988)
 * Implement Yourself (New World, 1990)
 * Live at the Knitting Factory (Knitting Factory, 1990)
 * Plain Old Joe (Knitting Factory Works, 1993)
 * In Love (High Street, 1994)
 * Individually Twisted (32 Jazz, 1996)
 * "Live" in Spain (32 Jazz, 1998)
 * Reunited (Justin Time, 2010)
 * Still Life with Trouble (Enja, 2017)
 * Going Home (Enja, 1992)
 * Into the Sun (Grand Royal, 1998)
 * Surreality (Enja, 2012)
 * Indiana (Nettwork, 2004)
 * Who's Bridge (Avant, 1994)
 * Four in One (Songlines, 2001)
 * Down to Believing (eOne, 2016)
 * Big Four (HatOLOGY, 2002) with Steven Bernstein and Noël Akchoté
 * Flamingos (HatOLOGY, 2004) with Otto Lechner
 * Big Four Live (HatOLOGY, 2007) with Steven Bernstein and Noël Akchoté
 * Big Four/Sortilèges (Extraplatte, 2010) with Steven Bernstein and Noël Akchoté
 * Camp Stories: Music from the Motion Picture (Knitting Factory Works, 1996)
 * Fire at Keaton's Bar and Grill (Six Degrees, 2000)
 * Subway Moon (Yellowbird, 2009)
 * With You (Knitting Factory Works, 1993)
 * Set the Alarm for Monday (Palmetto, 2008)
 * Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins (Yep Roc, 2017)
 * Requiem for What's His Name (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 1992)
 * Shoe String Symphonettes (Tzadik, 1997)
 * The Prosthetic Cubans (Atlantic, 1998)
 * ¡Muy Divertido! (Atlantic, 2000)
 * Keep Your Heart Right (Sunnyside, 2008)
 * Chaliwa (Veal, 2013) as New Zion Trio
 * Sunshine Seas (RareNoise, 2016) as New Zion with Cyro Baptista
 * Blue Dream (RareNoise, 2018)
 * Hidden Corners (RareNoise, 2019)
 * Aggregat (Clean Feed, 2012)
 * Quintet (Clean Feed, 2013)
 * Dialectrical (Clean Feed, 2016)
 * Vibes (Knitting Factory, 1998)
 * With Drawn (Knitting Factory, 1999)
 * Liebe Tunina (Knitting Factory, 2000)
 * Vibes 4 (Knitting Factory, 2001)
 * Long and Skinny (Knitting Factory Works, 1993)
 * Played Right (Cheetah, 2009)
 * John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory (Knitting Factory Works, 1995)
 * Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik, 2003)