Willie Jones

The stack of brilliant jazz sides that drummer appears on is indeed impressive that it’s hard to trust he was only on the recording scene for under a decade. He’s sometimes referred to as Willie Jones Jr. and may be the second inside a jazz lineage of two drummers and something pianist using the same name — where nobody is in fact related by family members. This drumming Willie Jones Jr. is usually confused with younger Willie Jones III, regardless of the second option player’s attempts to erect fences with Roman numerals. The “1st” Willie Jones, a fantastic pianist from Chicago, is definitely entwined in a little less confusion because of his personal obscurity. An instance can be designed for bad luck regarding the old drummer’s brief documenting career, a minimum of with regards to how things began. Jones’ 1st jazz outing on record was, in the end, the melody “Fri the Thirteenth” using the band of Thelonious Monk. When the conversation adjustments from superstition to very music, Jones can barely become accused of idly tossing sodium over his make. Having added well to Monk’s music, including traditional sessions including genius tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the drummer continuing working with an excellent group of innovators of differing community stature: Elmo Wish in 1955, after that both Randy Weston and Charles Mingus the next season. Jones was the drummer on Pithecanthropus Erectus, among the Mingus masterpieces from that bandleader, bassist, and composer’s tenure using the Atlantic label. Jones’ last careers of stature indicate his wide variety. Through the next fifty percent of the ’50s he performed both sticks and brushes in Lester Young’s last combo, straight-ahead golf swing without apologies. In 1961 Jones produced his last recordings, showing up on sessions arranged by Sunlight Ra for the Savoy label in nov 1961. The participation in Ra’s faraway galaxy signifies the drummer’s placement as an early on supporter of the creative but frequently marginalized big music group leader soon after Ra’s entrance in ny.