Dale Jones began his performing career as a teenager playing bass guitar in a big band. At age 19 an increasing interest in classical music, most notably orchestral music, lead him to learning the double bass with a view to playing in an orchestra. Dale was playing professionally a mere four years later when he became a member of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and later the Melbourne Symphony.

Dale Jones’ first public appearance as a singer/songwriter was as a busker on the streets of Melbourne. He later formed the band Strange Days as an avenue for his prodigious output of songs and produced the beautiful album “When Oceans Rise” in 1994. Two more albums followed with the band Night & Day between 1999 and 2002 as well as many live performances which displayed his song’s as the work of a fine, creative musician.

Dale Jones' experience as an orchestral musician has had a profound influence on his songwriting, bringing to him an acute sense for instrumentation and arrangement. Each song is a beautifully woven sonic tapestry. In addition to songwriting Dale has also composed music for film, theatre and small ensembles indicating the broad scope of his musical interests and abilities.

The CD "Evolution" is his first solo project, an album of nine expertly crafted songs produced with the help of a dozen other wonderful musicians. Songs that give expression to universal human experiences, ideas and dilemmas and carve a notch of hope into a volatile, uncertain world. Songs such as  “The First Time” “Earth Man” and “Takes My Breath Away”.

Dale Jones is also an instrumental teacher currently working and creating with the young hearts and minds of the Samford Valley Steiner School near Brisbane. Here he works with individual students and ensembles to foster their experience of and love for music, so vital to the healthy development of the human being.
Through this teaching and in reflecting the world through music, especially  song, Dale Jones seeks to contribute, in however small a way, to the enormous ongoing task of making the world a better place for future generations.