Percy Jones

Born in 1947 in Wales, Percy Jones is a true innovator on the fretless electric bass, with a nimble, fluid, and harmonic-rich style that is uniquely his own. An autodidact, Jones played fretted bass for a number of years before switching to fretless, and his inimitable approach helped to set British jazz-rockers Brand X apart from other fusion outfits on such albums as Unorthodox Behaviour (1976), Morrocan Roll (1976), and Masques (1978). Even as Brand X underwent numerous lineup changes over the years (Phil Collins was the group's first drummer but departed before the recordi...