Wayne Jones is a Southern California based television composer, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and inventor who is best known for his underscore and songs for television shows like White Collar and Graceland and songs for The Flash, The Resident, Criminal Minds., House M.D, and Parenthood.
As a composer for online media, Wayne has worked for Google to compose original music for The YouTube Audio Library, creating soundtrack cues and songs in styles ranging from Cinematic and Pop to Ambient and Hip Hop.
His songs for film include additional music for That Thing You Do, Tuesdays with Morrie and the Barbra Streisand-Seth Rogen film: The Guilt Trip.
As a pianist and keyboardist, Wayne has performed with numerous touring Jazz and Classical artists, recorded and performed concert music with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and headed his own Jazz trio in Tokyo and LA.
Works for advertising include music for The NFL, Viasat, Playtex, Campbells Soup, Pfizer, Lever, and the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.
He is also known for his work as a songwriter, instrumentalist and producer of numerous albums for Lifescapes Music and RedTulip Music.
Wayne has received numerous television performance awards from SESAC for his underscore compositions for White Collar and Graceland as well as awards for songs featured in House, M.D., Parenthood, and other television shows and films.
Wayne is a part-time faculty member at the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music at The New School in Manhattan, where he teaches courses on underscore analysis and composition such Scoring In The Style Of.. and Sound and Story. He also directs the Radiohead, Steely Dan, and other ensembles. Formerly, Wayne spent 4 years as lecturer of Audio Design at University of Southern California’s Iovine & Young Academy teaching Audio & Media Integration, Audio Design Toolbox and a special topics course exploring the narrative role of sound and audio in product design, environmental Design, Immersive Environments and Multimedia.
In the field of Design, Wayne is cofounder of Vidami, and co-inventor of the Vidami foot controllers, media control devices that enables users to Loop and Slow Down down videos for friction-free learning of music on YouTube and 70+ online platforms.