Duke Jones

Hovering between a name along with a nickname, “Duke” provides indeed been found in conjunction with genuine jazz royalty. In conjunction with the all as well common surname of Jones there is situated just the faintest luster: a better-known Duke Jones is really a program and jazz fusion soloist on trumpet and flügelhorn, however the name also shows up in documenting credits from the first ’40s, maybe even earlier. In the past a bassist called Duke Jones with an increase of claim to being truly a legitimate Texan than anyone within the Bush family members was prowling the sagebrush hinterlands within the rhythm portion of Sam Cost & His Tx Bluesicians. The bassist also performed and documented with Louis Armstrong and Count number Basie through the ’40s. Jones produced a minimum of ten jazz information with different rings between 1940 and 1946. On a few of these edges he’s also acknowledged with vocals. Players who is able to claim to possess held up with Jones once the Cost was right are the good drummer Wilbert Kirk and a particularly solid guitarist, Brick Fleagle. Another Duke Jones who might not possess recorded is really a drummer who caused bandleader Erskine Butterfield through the same period the bassist was energetic.