Hi, I'm Kip Jones, a 29 year-old violinist from Duluth, Minnesota, USA. I started this site in 2002 to keep my friends and family updated while I was traveling, an activity that kept me busy until the fall of 2009.  During this period, kipjones.net became something of an online music archive, a place I could share recordings I made; both songs and binaural field recordings of India and South Korea.

Most recently, my wife Noelle and I returned from a thirteen month ramble through South America, where I wrote a lot of new material for just the voice and violin, played simultaneously.  My brother-in-law Russel Munson helped me to record it, and I'm really excited to get it mixed, copied, and ready for concerts.

This page is undergoing a migration from a personal site to an artist site.  Now that I live nearer my family and friends, I no longer need this site to communicate with them.  I do, however, need it to communicate with potential colleagues in the world of professional music.  Those interested can find a few demo tracks from my latest recording, an up-to-date bio, and some high resolution images on the bio page.

For those who have a bit of time to spare, I'd encourage you to dig a bit through the music archive.  There are songs from my trio Morning Zephyr, as well as some home recordings I made in rural South Korea, in addition to earlier gypsy jazz material and binaural fun.

I hope you enjoy what time you spend digging through the music, words, and images here. Sign the guestbook! Check out the media player! And try not to get too confused by the wacky logo!

Regards ---

A note on the logo: Nols and I spent a weekend in Gyeongju, the seat of the Shilla dynasty (57 BCE - 935 CE), in Gyeongsangbukdo. During a visit to a museum, I stumbled across a 14-sided die, called the Mokjaenorigu (wood-play-shape), which outlines the rules for a thousand-year-old drinking game. I bought a replica of the die; when my friends and I finally got around to playing the game, it was every bit as hilarious as it must have been back then.