Billy Jones

A 1975 album entitled Parrots of the ocean by Billy Jones has turned into a treasured item among particular DJs and mixers thinking about finding the greatest funky break or test. The recording has fallen right into a category referred to as North spirit, the north in cases like this becoming Holland, where Jones was energetic on the music picture from your ’60s. His cultural background is usually African as well as the previously mentioned recording, released on the Dutch subsidiary of Decca, isn’t the only documented paperwork of Jones. He’s a performer whose shows and contacts required him in to the Dutch avant-garde aswell as the gouda aged country’s strike parade. His popularity remains almost completely in Holland, regardless of the attempts of lucky enthusiasts who will dsicover a mildewed Parrots of the ocean at an Amsterdam flea marketplace, its cover actually soiled by a genuine live parrot of the ocean. Jones’ recording profession dates back at least ten years before that recording. He was an associate from the Twinklestars, a vocal group that released some singles in Holland in the ’60s, a lot of which charted nationally. Another person in this group was the interesting Surinamese vocalist Oscar Harris, who started twinkling on-stage using the group in 1965 when Jones had been an established area of the constellation. Jones and Harris slice an recording of Ballads in the ’70s. By this time around, Jones had started working with intensifying groups such as for example Fact and Solat, resulting in a cooperation with saxophonist Hans Dulfer.