Inspired by her father, Helen Jayne met her first violin teacher at the age of 4. John Stone, a virtuoso violinist of Jewish descent, filled her heart and soul with hauntingly beautiful melodies from Yiddish & Klezmer songs to Eastern European folk tunes and Gypsy music. She later studied at the Conservatoire in Glasgow and continued to work with a variety of classical ensembles.

Her encounter in 1999 with the breath taking virtuosity of Russian Gypsy violinists reawakened her soul in the familiar sounds of her earliest musical experience and influences.

Some years later, while living in the South of France, she first heard the songs of the Sinti & Romany Gypsies and what she then learned to be Gypsy Jazz and the Hot Club music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. She says 'it took me a while to learn to, what is called - Swing'.  

More recently she has played with the Hot Club of Glasgow, the Hot Club of Edinburgh; the Paul Paterson Trio; Belle Boheme with Alison Affleck in A Krewe of Muses'  - a celebration of International Womens Day at The Jazz Bar , Edinburgh. She is currently involved in a series of cross disciplinary  performances with 'Word Jazzology' - composing music in collaborative projects with award winning poet Magi Gibson and performing as a member of 'Le Jazz Band' with fellow musicians, guitarist Graham Pointer and chanteuse Christine Bovill.

An experienced performer, she has appeared in many festivals across the UK and Europe and recorded in a variety of musical genres.

In the Fall of 2017, with 'a little more Gypsy than Jazz', she created the band Flamingo Swing.