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New York born bassist/composer, Brad Jones, has worked with a wide variety of artists representing different genres of music that include Ornette Coleman, Elvis Costello, Elvin Jones, Deborah Harry, Muhal Richard Abrams, Uri Caine, John Zorn,David Byrne, Carlos Garnett, Marc Ribot, Vernon Reid, and the Jazz Passengers. In the past few years, he has been mainly touring and recording with trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas in several of his projects as well as playing in the groups of guitarist/composer David Gilmore, and pianist/composer Anthony Coleman.

In 1997, he released his debut cd as a leader on the Knitting Factory label entitled "Uncivilized Poise" with his band, Aka Alias. He has just recently completed recording a CD with his new project "The Brad Jones Quartet" and is planning to record the next Aka Alias CD some time in the Fall of 2003.