Darius Jones – Sunday Interview ~ The Free Jazz Collective

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1. What is your greatest joy in improvised music?

   The unknown

2. What quality do you most admire in the musicians you perform with?
   
   The
   ability to listen deeply and be fearlessly themselves.
3. Which historical musician/composer do you admire the most?
   
   Sun Ra
4. If you could resurrect a musician to perform with, who would it be?
   

   Ed Blackwell
   
   

5. What would you still like to achieve musically in your life?
   
   I have so
   much to still achieve but I would love to have a band with a
   consistent group of musicians I could develop with and write music for
   until I’m an old man. Something feels so romantic about this to me.
6. Are you interested in popular music and – if yes – what music/artist do
   you particularly like?
   
   Yes, Kendrick Lamar
7. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
   
   My
   mental health
8. Which of your albums are you most proud of?
   
   I think the latest one,
   Legend of e’Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye), because it’s me at my bravest
   self on record to date.
9. Once an album of yours is released, do you still listen to it? And how
   often?
   
   Yes but not very often at all.
10. Which album (from any musician) have you listened to the most in your
    life?
    
    Madvillain – Madvillainy
11. What are you listening to at the moment?
    
    Pierre Henry’s composition
    Variations pour une porte et un soupir
12. What artist outside music inspires you?
    
    Toni Morrison 

Darius Jones on the Free Jazz Blog:

• Darius Jones – Legend of e’Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity, 2024)
• Jazz em Agosto 2024 (Part 3/3)
• Jazz em Agosto 2024 (Part 2/3)
• Monheim Triennale II: The Prequel – July 2024
• Darius Jones – fluXkit Vancouver (its suite but sacred) (Northern Spy Records/We Jazz Records, 2023)
• Solo sax – The Overview I
• Phil Freeman – Ugly Beauty (Zero Books, 2022)
• Darius Jones – Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (Northern Spy, 2021) *****
• Astral Spirits – Upcoming Releases
• Vision Festival #24 2019 – Day 6
• Vision Festival #24 2019 – Day 5
• 25th annual Guelph Jazz Festival
• Vision Festival #23 2018 – Day 6
• Vision Festival #23 2018 – Day 3
• Vision Festival #23 2018 – Day 1
• Vision Festival 2017 – Day 4: Don’t Let Them Take Your Joy Away
• Vision Festival 2017 – Day 1: Calling All Visions
• William Hooker – Light (The Early Years) (NoBusiness, 2016) ****½
• Steve Swell – Kanreki. Reflection & Renewal (Not Two, 2015) ***½
• Darius Jones Quartet (featuring Emilie Lesbros) – Le Bébé de Brigitte (Lost In Translation) (AUM FIDELITY, 2015) ***½
• Period – 2 (Public Eyesore, 2014) ***½
• Eric Revis – In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed, 2014) ****
• Adam Lane Trio – Absolute Horizon (NoBusiness, 2013) ****
• Black Host / Slobber Pup: Required Listening
• Little Women – Lung (AUM Fidelity, 2013) ****
• 15 From 2012 Right Before 2013 (part 2/2)
• 15 From 2012 Right Before 2013 (part 1/2)
• Weekend Roundup: December 2, 2012
• Darius Jones Quartet – Book of Mae’bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) – (AUMFidelity, 2012) ****
• Cosmic Leaders
• Mike Pride’s From Bacteria To Boys – Betweenwhile (AUM Fidelity, 2010) ****
• Little Women – Throat (AUM Fidelity, 2010) ****
• William Hooker – Earth’s Orbit (NoBusiness, 2010) ****½ & ***½
• Darius Jones Trio – Man’ish Boy (AUM Fidelity, 2009) ****