Wow! London-based keyboard player, producer and songwriter Joe Armon-Jones' passages in AB can already no longer be counted on one hand. His first passage dates back to 2018 during a now ‘historic AB two-day event’ introducing Gilles Peterson's collector We Out Here. Say: the album that put the entire London jazz scene on the map. Afterwards, he passed another handful of times - four times to be exact - with his band Ezra Collective.
His latest album Turn To Clear View dates back to 2019, but Armon-Jones didn't sit still that interim. He toured the world, built his own studio, recorded an album with dubstep legend Mala and was featured on albums by afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen as well as fellow townsmen Binker Golding, Mosey Boyd and Nubya Garcia.
Enter 2025! The year when Armon-Jones actually releases a veritable diptych: All The Quiet Part I and - how did you guess - All The Quiet Part II with a slew of special guests including Asheber, Greentea Peng, Wu Lu, Hak Baker and Yazmin Lacey. In his own words, he was fully inspired by the radical productions of dub master King Tubby and dub sound systems tout court. Armon-Jones: ‘I got really into exploring the sonic world of dub. Taking that process and applying it to jazz, funk, and all those other musics that I really love.’
Welcome back Joe Armon-Jones!