Black Excellence: Jonathan Scales
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Scales
Jonathan Scales (born September 14, 1984) is an American steel pannist and composer. He has recorded and produced seven albums, the most recent being Mindstate Music, released in 2019 on Ropeadope Records. Since 2007, Scales has recorded and performed with Victor Wooten, Howard Levy, The Duhks, Roy “Future Man” Wooten, Jeff Coffin, Jeff Sipe, Casey Driessen, Oteil Burbridge, Kofi Burbridge, Yonrico Scott, and Béla Fleck whom Scales describes as his “musical hero”.[1] His albums have been reviewed by Modern Drummer[2] and JazzTimes.[3] Scales graduated from Appalachian State University in 2006.
Jonathan Scales’ steelpans blaze at the Aspen Ideas Festival