Chris Jones is a composer and sound designer for television and film. His music has appeared in American Idol, Saturday Night Live, The Sopranos, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Vice, and Mr. Robot as well as ads for brands like McDonald’s, Adidas, Nissan, Mont Blanc, Samsung, and Intel. He has created sound design pieces for over 150 movie trailers including Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.
As a musician, Chris is classically trained in both bass and percussion, studying with Steve Reich/Philip Glass ensemble percussionist Frank Cassara and jazz bassists Bruce Gertz and Rufus Reid. He has performed everything from jazz standards to 20th Century classical to surf-punk noise to African drumming to DJing at venues as disparate as The Waldorf Astoria Hotel to CBGB’s to The Roxy (LA) to Merkin Concert Hall.