Mike Jones , Penn Jillette - The Show Before The Show (Live At The Penn & Teller Theater) flac album

Mike Jones (75), Penn Jillette ‎– The Show Before The Show. Label: Capri Records (6) ‎– 74148-1. 1000 are 180 gram black vinyl. Other Versions (1 of 1) View All.

You probably recognize Penn Jillette as one half of the comedy and magic duo Penn and Teller. What you may not know is that Jillette is an avid jazz bassist. You can hear his work on the new album The Show Before The Show alongside pianist Mike Jones  . For the past 16 years those who have gone to see the Penn & Teller show at the Rio in Las Vegas have been entertained before the show by the Mike Jones Duo, the liner notes read. Jones is joined by a disguised hip looking bassist in a hat who is actually the taller half of the act they all came to see, Penn Jillette. The Show Before the Show was recorded live at the Penn & Teller Theater capturing the musical magic before the prestidigitation begins.

ORG A jazz debut on May 18, 2018! There’s not a lot of live music at magic shows in Las Vegas. So you might be shocked that when you arrive at the Penn & Teller show at the Rio All Suites Hotel, you are welcomed by a live concert performed by Mike Jones, acknowledged as one of the most virtuosic mainstream jazz pianist in the world. Jones’s rhythm section is a tall, taciturn bass player in pork pie hat. Astute observers recognize the bass player as Penn Jillette, . the articulate half of Penn & Teller.

Mike Jones, who has been playing piano for Penn & Teller in Las Vegas for 16 years, just release an album with Penn on bass. Mike Jones, one of the top pianists in jazz, has released an album, The Show Before the Show, with magician Penn Jillette playing bass. Kristen Norman, for the Chicago Tribune). As visitors pour into the hotel’s Penn & Teller Theater and begin finding their seats, a brilliant jazz pianist onstage practically makes the keys fly - and an enthusiastic bassist happily plucks along. What many visitors don’t know (at least at first) is that the bassist happens to be Penn Jillette. He’s the talking half of the magic act - Teller stays mute during the show - and Jillette accompanies keyboard wizard Mike Jones without announcement or fanfare.

Mike Jones Jazz Piano. Pianist and music director for the Penn & Teller show. Here's the amazingly talented Kawai Artist Mike Jones playing a 7' semi-concert Kawai at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas at the Penn & Teller Theater. Mike is a featured performer before and during the show! Ellington Medley. Mike Play the final song of his Penn & Teller pre-show. Mike Jones Jazz Piano. The Show Before the Show by Mike Jones & Penn Jillette

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An avid upright bassist, Jillette frequently accompanies jazz pianist Mike Jones, who opens for the magician's Las Vegas show. On March 16, 2018, Jones released a live jazz album with Jillette entitled The Show Before the Show which consisted of ten tracks played by the duo at the Rio Las Vegas Jillette was one of the contestants on The Celebrity Apprentice season 5, beginning on February 19, 2012. Jillette created a private recording studio in his Las Vegas home. The addition, designed by Outside The Lines Studio and built by Crisci Custom Builders between October 2003 and June 2004 as part of his Las Vegas home, was named Vintage Nudes Studios by Jillette for playing cards that he had collected.

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The Penn & Teller Theater. Penn Jillette, Mike Jones. The Show Before the Show. Bass, Primary Artist. Antônio Carlos Jobim. Composer, Piano, Primary Artist, Producer.

The voluble half of Penn & Teller, Jillette is also a part-time bebop jazz bassist, and for the past 18 years he and his pianist pal Mike Jones have performed live pre-show music for the magic–comedy pair in Las Vegas. He readily admits that his role as the bassist half of the Mike Jones Duo is one sweet gig. Here’s how good I have it: I never have to lug my bass anywhere. That might change with the release of The Show Before the Show, recorded live at the Penn & Teller Theater, on which Jillette and Jones traipse merrily through standards such as Tangerine, On the Sunny Side of the Street, But Not for Me, and one Jones original, Box Viewing Blues. Mike Jones Duo, The Show Before the Show. Basses 1980s Italian-made upright, Rickenbacker electric.