Dylan Jones
Upright and electric bass

Dylan was born in Dallas, Texas, to a family steeped in American folk music, and his aunt Ruby  Almond was a fiddler and songwriter for greats such as Chet Atkins and Dottie West.  Dylan began studying the electric bass as a teen, and took lessons from Dallas legend Dwayne Heggar and Chuck Rainey, bassist for Aretha Franklin, and Quincy Jones.  While studying audio engineering at the University of Texas at Austin he became the bassist and driving force behind one of Austin’s most popular hip-hop groups of all time, Big Game Hunter.  Dylan began to play the upright bass in his mid-twenties, and went to Europe on scholarship to study with the revolutionary composer and bass pedagogue Francois Rabbath.  Dylan has toured the U.S., Pacific Islands, Taiwan, and Norway as a singer and bassist in the bluegrass band Q, and has given workshops in Taiwan.  He has also studied Indian music with Sisirkana Dar Chowdury and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, California.  In Austin he is the bassist for Atash, Vengo and Mandible and is the founder and Executive Director of Anthropos Arts, a municipally funded organization which provides free workshops and private lessons to the area’s economically disadvantaged music students.

Visit Anthropos Arts site – http://www.anthropos.org