Mimi Jones

Mimi Jones (born March 25, 1972, in New York City) is an American bassist, vocalist, composer, bandleader, education and founder of Hot Tone Music.

Background Mimi Jones was born Miriam Sullivan in New York City and was raised in the Bronx. She attended The Harlem School of the Arts, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. She studied with Linda McKnight and attended the Jazz Mobile Workshop. There she studied with Lisle Atkinson, a bassist, who became her mentor.

She later received a full scholarship to the The Manhattan School of Music conservatory in New York. There, she attended workshops with Charles Davis, Barry Haris, Yusef Latif, Max Roach and other prominent jazz figures. She later graduated from the conservatory.

Career

For more than two decades, Mimi Jones has worked as a side woman to various musicians and as a leader with three CDs on her own label, Hot Tone Music . Her sound is a mix of genres, based on a jazz foundation.

Mimi has toured throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean, and is recognized as a U.S. Jazz Ambassador. Her work as a side woman includes gigs with Kenny Barron, Frank Ocean, Dianne Reeves, Tia Fuller, Ingrid Jensen, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Marc Cary, Toshi Reagon, Rachel Z, Sean Jones, Ravi Coltrane, and Terri Lyne Carrington’s GRAMMY-winning Mosaic Project.

Mimi also serves as co-director (with ArcoIris Sandoval) of the D.O.M.E. Experience, a multimedia project that fosters awareness of environmental and social issues—within the local community and globally—through choreography, composition, and cinematography.