written in Toronto circa 1990 by: Eliane Abolicao and Bruce Jones
recorded live by the CBC at the Rivoli

Africa Feliz

written and recorded around 2017 by Bruce Jones and Ashley King
my first of that sort...

Silence And Trouble

Naked 2

Naked 1

Naked 3

Naked 4

6:38 right now

CORTA CAMINHO

the passenger

PLANETA SOL

BHAGRHA I

MINHA HORA

bruce jones
composer . performer . producer . teacher

647 569 8384
brucedadajones@gmail.com

Bruce Jones is a musician of Canadian/Brazilian descent. He grew up near Sao Paulo and first picked up a guitar at the age of 13, very quickly developing proficiency as a player and composer. Jones began his formal musical training at the Academia Paulista de Musica (Sao Paulo) and later pursued studies in classical guitar, orchestration and composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.

His classical training ironically led Jones to discover that his real roots were in the rhythms of his Brazilian youth, including Bossa Nova, Maracatu, Samba, Olodum and Axe. In Toronto he began a teaching career at the Eli Kassner Academy in 1978 and for the next 10 years contributed to the growth of many talented local guitarists. 

At the same time, Jones was the leader of Toronto’s foremost Brazilian rhythm outfit, Cocada and later Da, both of which enjoyed large followings of music and dance aficionados and featured on the worldbeat and jazz festival circuits in Canada and Brazil, as well as in Cape Verde and Argentina. In Toronto in the late 80s and throughout the 1990s, Jones’ bands featured at annual Harbourfront festivals, WOMAD, Hispanic festivals, The Bamboo Club and Caribana, where Jones’ samba school outfit GRES Unidos do Canada won Best Traditional Ensemble for seven years running. Cocada opened for the likes of Zap Mama, Djavan, Youssou N’Dour and Gilberto Gil.

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