Jonah Jones

A talented and flashy trumpeter, Jonah Jones hit upon a formula in 1955 that produced him a significant attraction for ten years; playing concise variations of melodic golf swing standards and display tunes muted having a quartet. But even though non-jazz audience found out Jones through the past due ’50s, he previously already been an extremely vital trumpeter for just two years. Jones began playing on the Mississippi riverboat within the 1920s. He freelanced within the Midwest (including with Horace Henderson), was briefly with Jimmie Lunceford (1931), experienced an early on stint with Stuff Smith (1932-1934), and spent period with Lil Armstrong’s short-lived orchestra as well as the declining McKinney’s Natural cotton Pickers. Jones became well-known for his using Stuff Smith’s Onyx golf club band (1936-1940), documenting many fascinating solos. He gigged with Benny Carter and Fletcher Henderson and became a celebrity soloist with Cab Calloway (1941-1952), sticking to the singer actually after his big music group became a combo. Jones performed Dixieland with Earl Hines (1952-1953), toured European countries in 1954 (including an excellent recording program with Sidney Bechet), and led his quartet in the Embers (1955), striking upon his extremely successful method. His shuffle edition of “On the road YOUR GEOGRAPHICAL AREA” was the to begin many strikes and he documented a long group of well-known albums for Capitol during 1957-1963, switching to Decca for a couple even more quartet albums in 1965-1967. Jonah Jones documented a fine day with Earl Hines for Chiaroscuro (1972) but still performed on an intermittent basis within the 1980s and early ’90s; he passed away Apr 30, 2000, at age 91.