Jinx Jones
"Jinx is a guitar virtuoso who seamlessly moves from rockabilly to jazz to twang and back again, sometimes in the same song. Those with a liner note obsession will remember Jinx’s playing on En Vogue’s “Free Your Mind.”
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Northern California Shows featured on SHOWS page. Don’t miss Jinx Jones & the KingTones appearing with the Chris Duarte Group for a guitar bustin’ night of hard-chargin’ music at Sonoma’s legendary Sebastiani Theater on March 20. Many festivals coming up in the spring and summer.
Metro Silicon Valley 2025:
Denver native Jinx Jones got his start in music early and relocated to the Bay Area in 1989. His guitar artistry landed him work with legendary artists including Chuck Berry, Roy Buchanan and Solomon Burke. Underscoring his pan-genre fluidity, he played bass on En Vogue’s 1992’s smash hit “Free Your Mind.” Back in the rock idiom, he launched the Kingtones; Jones has released five albums that draw upon rockabilly, swing and surf: License to Twang, Rumble & Twang, Rip and Run, Live Twang in Finland and Twang-Tastic! His 2021 album, Blue Gardenia, showcased Jones’ versatility via his command of jazz stylings.
“Imagine an advanced guitar textbook on 10. Listeners all will doubtless be thunderstruck by Jinx's authoritative command of labrythinian note aggregates, lightning- fleet navigations, and esoteric chordal modes. One intuits they are in the twang-upholstered, jazzy Court of a flat- gone Monarch, one for whom fair Aoede is a favored midnight-hour ship.”
DC Larson, No Depression
“Jinx Jones is out there. Four or five nights a week, the great guitar player with the immaculate pompadour can be found at various Bay Area venues, working the stage, doing his thing. The Colorado native came up serving as a sideman to rock ’n’ roll royalty, playing with the likes of Chuck Berry and Solomon Burke.”
Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle’s pop music critic
