Michael Jones
Michael Jones (1942 – 19 January 2022) was a British-born Canadian new-age pianist and composer, known for his improvisational new age performance style. He was also a writer and leadership educator.
Michael Jones

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- Name
- Michael Jones
- Born
- 1942
- Occupation
- Composer, Pianist, Author, Lecturer
- Died
- 2022
- Nationality
- Canada
- Fields
- new age music
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Michael Jones • Born — 1942 • Instrument — Piano • Genre — New-age • Occupation — Composer, Pianist, Author, Lecturer • Years Active — c. 1980–2022 • Label — Pianoscapes, Inc. Narada • Website — www.pianoscapes.com,
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Michael Jones, a composer and musician, was born on 31 December 1942. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Personal life
Personal life
Jones was born in Surrey, England, and grew up in Kitchener and later Queenston, Ontario. He died on 19 January 2022, at the age of 79 at Mariposa House Hospice in Orillia, Ontario.
Career
Career
Jones' first album, Pianoscapes, was released on the newly formed Narada record label. The album sold more than 100,000 copies. Since then he has released more than a dozen albums of piano music. In 1990 he conducted a concert tour. He published three books about creative leadership; the most recent is The Soul of Place: Re-imagining Leadership Through Nature Art and Community. Jones was a columnist for the business and leadership website, Management - Issues. He often combined the two sides of his career by performing his compositions at leadership conferences. In 2015 Jones co-chaired the Mariposa Roundtable, an initiative to improve the economy of Orillia through increased tourism.
Original discography
Original discography
• Michael's Music (Pianoscapes, 1981) • Reissued as Pianoscapes (Narada, 1983) • Windsong (Antiquity, 1983) • Seascapes (Narada, 1984) • Wind and Whispers (Sona Gaia, 1985) • Solstice (Narada, 1985) • Sunscapes (Narada, 1986) • Amber (Narada, 1987) • After the Rain (Narada, 1988) • Magical Child (Narada, 1990) • Michael's Music (Narada, 1990) • Morning in Medonte (Narada, 1992) • Air Born (Narada, 1994) • Touch (Narada, 1996) • The Living Music (Narada, 1998) • Echoes of Childhood (Pianoscapes, 2002) • Almost Home (Pianoscapes, 2006) • Deep Song (Pianoscapes, 2015)
Compilation appearances
Compilation appearances
• The Living Music (Narada 1998) • 20 Years of Narada Piano • Grand Piano (Narada Anniversary Collection) • Pianoscapes The Deluxe Edition (Narada 2002)
Books
* • Creating an Imaginative Life Trafford (1995, 2006) • Artful Leadership, Awakening the Commons of the Imagination Trafford (2006) • The Soul of Place:Re-Imagining Leadership Through Nature, Art and Community Friesen Press (2014)
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- 1.New Age Piano Lessons. Free to be Creative at the Piano. 157–.
- 2."New Age Music". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- 3.This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment. The Orilla Sun Online. 21 January 2022.
- 4.Mariposa House Hospice - Orillia and surrounding area's six bed residential Hospice facility. Mariposa House Hospice.
- 5.Maria Armoudian. Look for these New Age labels. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 51–. 6 April 1996. 0006-2510.
- 6.Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Major labels move quickly. Billboard. 1–. 25 October 1986. 0006-2510.
- 7."Music earns Michael Jones a second career". Orillia Sun, 26 April 1988, page 4
- 8."Orillia’s industrial economy is a thing of the past; group focusing on future opportunities". By Dave Dawson, Orillia Packet & Times, 8 October 2015
- 9.Foundation for National Progress. Mother Jones. 62. 1983.
- 10.Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Reviews: Pop - Recommended. Billboard. 101–. 12 January 1985. 0006-2510.
- 11.Keith Tuber. The New Age of David Lanz. Emmis Communications. 356–. December 1988. 0279-0483.
- 12.Linda Moleski. Grass Routes. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 56–. 30 August 1986. 0006-2510.
- 13."Album Review: Almost Home". Mainly Piano, Review by Michael Debbage
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