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Mark Jones (born June 19, 1952) is an American visual artist, musician, poet, philosopher, essayist and martial artist. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is of Russian-Jewish descent. Jones is an artist who has excelled in multiple genres of creative endeavor on the highest level, and is respected for his paintings, conceptual art pieces, musical performances, compositions, arrangements and productions, poetry, essays, work as an editor and his pedagogical pursuits in music and art as well as the Chinese martial arts. He has also started and run several successful businesses. Since 1983, Jones has been based in Westchester County, New York and has spent winters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for over 20 years. == Overview == Jones has exhibited his paintings in various galleries in Soho, New York as well as Cleveland and other cities, and was a professor of art at the Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, a private art college. He has performed his music on piano, synthesizers, guitar and harmonica in venues around the world and has had his compositions performed in several cities. He has also arranged and produced sessions for other artists. Jones has written in numerous genres including jazz, classical, blues, rock, world, folk, country and new age, but is primarily known as a jazz and classical composer. He has been associated with his jazz ensemble, "Sound Sculpture," and has made numerous recordings as well as written and produced music for theater and websites. The writings of Mr. Jones range from his collection of poems, "The Cry of the Lonely, The Song of the Poet," to critical essays on a wide range of subjects including philosophy, art, music, religion, sports, politics, martial arts, and literature. He has been published in the ''New York Times'', ''Village Voice'', ''Art in America'', ''Newsweek'', ''Mojo'', ''Dirty Linen'', ''Down Beat'', ''New York Jewish Week'', the ''Cleveland Jewish News'', ''Black Belt'', ''Inside Kung Fu'', ''Tai-Chi'', and others. As a martial artist, which he has been a practitioner of since 1971, he has specialized in the Chinese internal kung fu systems of taijiquan, bagua-zhang, xingyi-quan, and qigong. Jones has taught privately and given workshops in the USA, Brazil and Thailand. Despite his prodigious output of creative activities, he has worked in virtual obscurity, and in order to survive, has been forced to work in such sundry noble, yet tangential professions as a laborer on a Ford Motor Co. door assembly line, a non-ferrous metal sorter/metallurgist, truck loader, warehouse laborer, traveling salesman, restaurant/nightclub manager, music and art teacher, wooden playground designer and manufacturer, home inspector and environmental testing consultant, the last of which he still is active in. Since 1983, Jones has lived in Westchester County, NY, and until recently, has spent winters in Rio de Janeiro beginning in 1986. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Jones (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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