Pucci Amanda Jhones is a storyteller whose rich, smooth, original voice makes each song feel lived in rather than revisited.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, she draws from the blues and jazz tradition inspired by her father, Horace Luke Wooten, blues singer, harmonicist, and self-taught pianist, who taught Pucci to take her blues interpretations down to the cotton fields of the South.
A graduate of the New School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Classical and Contemporary Music, she has recorded with, shared the bandstand with, and opened for many jazz legends like Kenny Barron, Reggie Workman, Houston Person, Stanley Turrentine, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, and Freddy Cole. Her debut album on Cadence Sweet Dreams established her within a lineage of straight ahead jazz practitioners. Her subsequent recordings Wild Is the Wind and Love Jhones — documented a consistent approach: standards treated as flexible frameworks rather than fixed scripts.
Internationally, Pucci has performed throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Extended residencies at the Renaissance Jazz Club in Kuala Lumpur, the Half Note Jazz Club in Athens, Q Jazz Club in Istanbul, the Park Hyatt in Shinjuku, Tokyo, and a three-year residency at The Living Room at the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit in Bangkok cemented her global profile. A sold-out, fifteen city tour of Russia with the Daniel Kramer Trio expanded her audience in Eastern Europe and reinforced her standing as a vocalist comfortable in varied ensemble settings.
New York remains her artistic base; she has performed at the Blue Note, Birdland, Smalls, Mezzrow, Central Park SummerStage, Jazz at Kitano, Harlem Jazz Museum, and now, Dante Park!
