Dill Jones

Dillwyn "Dill" Owen Jones (born August 19, 1923 in Newcastle Emlyn , † June 22, 1984 in New York City ) was a British jazz pianist who also brought jazz to the audience of BBC One .

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Jones grew up in a musical family in New Quay ( Cardigan Bay ). He started taking piano lessons at the age of seven. After his time in college, he began an apprenticeship in banking, which was interrupted in 1942 when he was called up for military service. During the Second World War he served in the Navy, where he had the opportunity to play jazz . After the war he studied music in London at Trinity College of Music . Soon, like Humphrey Lyttelton, he became a member of Carlo Krahmer's Chicagoans . Then he was in the orchestra of Vic Lewis and in the sextet of Harry Parry , and then became a ship musician on the Queen Mary , which ran between New York and Southampton . During his stays in New York, he was able to visit jazz clubs and experience musicians like Coleman Hawkins and Lennie Tristano .

During the 1950s he worked in London with musicians as diverse as Ronnie Scott , Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists , Annie Ross , Tommy Whittle , Jimmy Skidmore , Bruce Turner , Joe Harriot and Don Rendell and was repeatedly awarded by the Melody Maker . From 1958 he led his own bands. He hosted The BBC Jazz Club radio show and also presented jazz on television before moving to New York in 1961, where he worked regularly with Yank Lawson , Max Kaminsky , Roy Eldridge , Bob Wilber and Jimmy McPartland for the next several years . Then he became a member of Gene Krupa's quartet . With Budd Johnson , Bill Pemberton and Oliver Jackson he formed the JPJ Quartet in 1969 , which existed until 1974. In the next few years he played as a freelancer and often in solo format as a stride pianist . In 1979 he was part of Eddy Davis's Hot Jazz Orchestra .

Discographic notes

Davenport Blues - Dill Jones plays Bix, Jones and a Few Others

Lexical entries

Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz music. 1700 artists and bands from the beginning until today. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X .
Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

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personal data
SURNAME	Jones, dill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jones, Dillwyn Owen (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 19, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Newcastle Emlyn
DATE OF DEATH	June 22, 1984
Place of death	New York City