Darryl Jones

Darryl Jones ( born December 11, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American bassist who is specially engaged in the genres of rock and jazz.

Since the age of six Darryl Jones took music lessons from his father, a drummer. A few years later he switched to the bass guitar, inspired by his neighbor Angus Thomas, who also played bass. Through him, Jones learned in the period following the basics of bass playing. Finally, on the Chicago " Vocational High School " he also took intensive theoretical and began first to gain experience with the double bass in live bands in dealing with the electric bass as well as in orchestras. In the early 1980s he was a member of the Miles Davis band. Since then he has worked with for example studio recordings by Herbie Hancock, Sting and Peter Gabriel. Darryl Jones is busy among others as a sideman and session player for the Rolling Stones, who have no bassist Bill Wyman since withdrawal in 1993. His debut with the Rolling Stones, he was on the album Voodoo Lounge, which appeared in 1994.