Jason...

 

Jason has been a professional singer and guitarist for over 12 years. He has played for a wide range of bands, from solos and duos in bars and hotels to ten piece bands, playing festivals from Glastonbury and V-festival to Latitude and Ibiza rocks.

 

His background began as a guitarist/vocalist in pubs and bars, playing functions around the u.k. In 2003 he was asked to play for downtempo rockers Spiritualized, and for the last five years he has been the singer/songwriter for the Orange Lights, a band created with Paul Tucker from 90's duo The Lighthouse Family, and also ex-members of The Verve and The Lightning seeds. More recently he has been the guitar player for country legends Billy Jo Spears and Stella Parton, as part of the UK theatre tour "The Ladies of Country".

 

Jason teaches guitar, and has a keen interest in film music. In 2009 he wrote music for Sopranos series 6 and also the music for MTN mobile phone network in South Africa and also a song he performed with The Orange Lights "Let the love back in" was used on U.S prime-time show "90210" in July 2009 and also "Smallville" in 2010.

 

He generally performs around 200 bookings per year, with past and present clients including BBC television, Sky Television, Microsoft, Deloitte, Epsom Derby, Dame Shirley Bassey, Jennie Falconer and OK magazine.

 


Paul Sumner (Drums)...

Paul has been a professional musician around seven years and has played for a wide range of original music bands and function bands in the U.K from indie band "Ease" to leading U.K function band "Performance"

He is a versatile drummer and can play everything from Jazz to rock. He sings backing vocals with the band, plays harmonica and also plays acoustic guitar for duo bookings.
 
Paul has recently returned from a world tour performing as Ringo Starr in the sell out theatre show "Rock Legends" . He is a massive Beatles fan, so if you like the occasional Beatles song, you won't be disappointed.
 

Ben Spencer (Bass)...

 

Ben is the bass player for the band and also the inspiration behind many of the JH-Band song choices. Ben has been a pro-player for 6 years, in indie bands, Jazz duo's, function bands and rock bands.

He has played hundreds of gigs around the U.K in touring and function bands. He has amassed a huge knowledge of great songs and he is the driving force behind the JH-bands' ever expanding song repertoire.

Ben also plays keyboards and acoustic guitar for the duo bookings, and also lends his expertise to the live sound as a qualified sound engineer and producer.

 

 

Barry Lee (Keyboards and Vocal)

 

 

Barry began his career early on playing and singing in black churches in gospel choirs around the U.K -also singing and playing electric bass for the National Church choir.  After many years playing keyboards in C.I.D (Funk, Soul, Rock) and funk soul pop outfit Sahara, Barry formed Short Circuit, singing lead vocals and playing Fender rhodes electric piano.

In the early 90's he embarked on a solo career to break into the pop market, at the same time composing pieces of instrumental music for pleasure and for performance purposes.

During the summer of 1992 he co-formed and played piano for pro jazz covers band, the Jazz Juniors, performing at weddings, birthday parties, business conferences and jazz club festivals.  The Jazz Juniors toured Barcelona in 1993 and 1995. By 1997 the band changed its name to Meljays and altered its repertoire to included music styles such as Acid-Jazz, 60's and 70's soul, and 80's and 90's pop music.

Over the years Barry has worked for various bands such as Juba, Promise (Acid-Jazz) from Sheffield, The Ben Martin Jazz Quartet, The Ashley Morgan Quartet (jazz) and Upfront. For the last three years he has been the fantastic new addition to the JH-Band, bringing his soulful voice and limitless keyboards skills in songs from Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson to the Kings of Leon and Jason Mraz.