If you were not aware, The Jessica Jones Quartet is an improvising jazz ensemble that performs inventive experimental music derived from the jazz tradition using structured original compositions as a framework for freer improvisation.

By combining the twin tenor saxophones of Jessica and Tony Jones with bass and drums, the group creates an exciting, robust new soundscape.

This dynamic two-tenor quartet now releases its sixth album, Edible Flowers on January 3rd, 2025. The unit, which has existed since the 1980’s, has the complementary tenors of the aforementioned Jessica and Tony Jones teamed with the very active playing of bassist Stomu Takeishi and drummer Deszon Claiborne on four originals and a song apiece by Jackie McLean and Connie Crothers.

1. Manhattan
2. Bird’s Word
3. No Relation/Just Us
4. Little Melonae
5. Higher Than
6. Soft Target

This new collection of exciting, vibrantly colorful new recordings open on the spirited Manhattan and then brings us the more dulcet, yet astutely musical furnishings of Bird’s Word, the whimsically-sculpted No Relation/Just Us, the pensively confident, at first, latterly strident Little Melonae, the collection rounding out on the rhythmically soulful Higher Than, closing on the fervently skittish Soft Target.

Jessica and Tony Jones can always be expected to create inventive, colorful and explorative music, their new musical accomplishment Edible Flowers being a righteous testament to just that fact.