Junior Jones

Junior Jones has been playing drums since he could lift a wooden spoon and break his mum’s stove.

He was a member of the World Music group Caribbean Soul which is Australia’s leading Soca/Calypso/Reggae band, with whom he has played on three CDs and toured nationally and internationally.

Junior works extensively with Australia’s top World Music Artists which has lead to him being current member of the African Diaspora, African singer Gervais Koffi’s band, Junior is also in pre-production with his own heavy world groove act ,blending heavy metal with elements of jazz ,funk, reggae ,rock,blues,afro beat and salsa. The powerhouse group is called SNAKE THEORY.Be sure to catch the band live early in 2010.

Along with double bass extraordinaire, John Maddox, Junior Jones belongs to electronic DJ influenced World Music Drum and Bass Duo, Headrush, which is playing around Sydney. He is also busy working around town with various artists in the pop world and a few local cover bands including The Shadows of Motown Revue.

Junior is the in-house drummer for Sound Level Studios, doing a broad range of musical sessions. A drum instructor at Drummers Dream in Belmore, He has also performed here in Australia displaying his worldly influences that he has gathered from different culturesat the Billy Hyde drummers’ weekend 2005. As well as this, he works as a clinician for Sleishman drums and Sabian cymbals.