Cliff Jones

It could be a shock to what degree the name” Yellowjackets” continues to be found in the music business, perhaps inspired by fairly regular product sales on clothing of the color as well as the ad-hoc music group uniforms that may subsequently end up being created. A couple of certainly such swarms of groupings making use of this name that there surely is a lot more than one Primary Yellow Spencer. A hive of jazz fusion funksters humming around guitarist Robben Ford are only johnny-come-lately’s with regards to a combo name happily utilized by an ensemble that was energetic in Arkansas through the second fifty percent from the ’30s. Documenting sessions out of this period give a chance for classic jazz listeners to become stung with the noises of Cliff Jones, alto saxophonist and clarinetist. This musician shouldn’t be baffled with the brand new Orleans jazz drummer whose tooth garnered him the nickname of Clifford “Snag” Jones — a blunder that would not really be produced if it had been the two music artists’ dental information that were getting likened. The Arkansas reed participant was among a large number of music artists whose efforts in a variety of genres were documented from the American Record Company on the field visit to Sizzling Springs, Arkansas in the first springtime of 1937. This Initial Yellow Jackets offered an nearly classically miniaturized edition of the big music group audio: five horns and also a hard-charging tempo section. The Vocalion label was one of the historic recording companies that finished up liberating the resulting edges, some with impossibly hip game titles as with “Swinging in the Chat and Chew up.”