Remember Jones is about to hit the road, ready to bring Kanye West's 2008 album "808s and Heartbreak" to life on stage with the help of a 25-person orchestra.

But this show isn't about Kanye West. It's about Jones, the captivating rock and soul star rapidly gaining a national following.

Jones, a Brick native born Anthony D'Amato, has previously given the full-album live treatment to works such as Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" (2006), Jeff Buckley's "Grace" (1994) and Joe Cocker's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" (1970).

The three "808s and Heartbreak" shows for Jones and company — the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 6; Brooklyn Bowl in Brooklyn on Thursday, Feb. 13; and the Queen in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday, Feb. 15 — launch a 13-date winter tour that also will include a number of "Back to Black" gigs. Every night also features a set of Jones' original material.

(A previously-announced Friday, Feb. 14 performance at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville was caneled by the venue "due to creative conflicts," Starland Ballroom announced on its official Facebook page on Wednesday.)

"Kanye's a controversial figure and everybody sort of has their opinion on him," Jones said. "And I'm not really doing this because of him, I'm doing this album because of me. I'm doing because of my connection with it and my feeling with it and hope everybody takes my interpretation of that and runs with that."

Jones' exploration of "808s and Heartbreak," which he debuted in 2018, is an insightful reinterpretation of a modern masterpiece. West's original is a landmark work of pain and grief, released a year after the death of the rapper and producer's mother, Donda.

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But unlike other watershed moments of grief — be it Bob Dylan's cutting "Blood on the Tracks" (1975), John Lennon's open wound of "Plastic Ono Band" (1970) or Beck's hushed and lush "Sea Change" (2002) — "808s and Heartbreak" is largely ice cold, one man's clinical examination of his own shattered self seen through a singular, idiosyncratic world view.

"It was like his first 'I don't give a (expletive deleted)' album, you know what I mean?" Jones said. "And I feel that all over it, and that is the thing that I think, for me, drives it as an actor. It allows me to escape my normal stuff and say, 'I'm going to put myself in this head, in this place.'"

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Jones and his orchestra's personal approach to the material can be heard from their take on the opening song of "808s," "Say You Will."

"I tend to take minimal things and really over-blow them and make them over the top, which we do in this," Jones said. "If you listen to the first song, 'Say You Will,' on the record it's got that pulsing sound and then it's kind of one note through the whole thing. We don't do that.

"(West's version) kind of just like stays here this whole time and we do all these crazy dynamics with it and we really bring almost a rock edge to it and bring an eight-person classical choir to it and stuff like that. To me, it's a little more of that cold anger."

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West has alienated some fans in recent years. There has been his continued, vocal support of President Donald Trump, his association with pastor Joel Osteen or his 2018 comment to TMZ that slavery sounded "like a choice" (which he later apologized for).

With regards to the "808s and Heartbreak" show, Jones advised listeners to separate the art from the original artist.

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"It's not about him, this is about this particular work of art," said Jones. "The man's got to stay relevant ... and he doesn't care what people are saying, as long as they're talking about him. I get it, to some extent. And maybe that's one of the reasons why I'm doing this record, too. It's to be a little bit more relevant and to tap a different demographic that I know is a part of me.

"Yes, I love the Joe Cocker stuff, but then I'm going to '808s and Heartbreak.' That's just been my life, always.I'm such a huge '90s-era hip-hop and R&B kid. I could sing you (TLC's) 'Crazysexycool' from start to finish, you know what I mean? But then I'm putting on (Meat Loaf's) 'Bat Out of Hell' or I'm putting on something else. That's a part of me, so I should be trusted for that dynamic taste."

Remember Jones

What: Winter tour featuring an original set plus a full-album performance of Kanye West's "808s and Heartbreak"

When: 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13

Where: Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn

Tickets: $17 to $20

And: 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15 at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Delaware, $18

Info: www.rememberjones.com