Dolly Jones

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Dolly Jones Hutchinson (also Dolly or Doli Armenra or Armenera , born November 27, 1902 in Chicago as Dolly Jones , † August 1975 in Bronx , New York City ) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist .

Live and act

Jones came from a family of musicians in St. Louis and had learned to play the trumpet from her mother, the trumpeter Dyer Jones (* approx. 1890), who also taught Valaida Snow . She began her career as a member of a family band in St. Louis, where she performed with Josephine Baker around 1919 . In 1922 she played with a trio in Kansas City; then she moved to Chicago and played in a trio with George James and drummer Alice Calloway. In May 1925 she became a member of Ma Rainey's band , which performed at the Chicago Grand Theater. In 1928 she went on tour with Ida Cox . After her marriage to Jimmy Hutchinson, she worked as the main attraction with the pianist Irene Kitchings , from mid-1931 with Walter Barnes, before she founded her own band, Twelve Spirits of Rhythm , in July 1932 . In 1932 she also worked with Lil Armstrong's Harlicans. In 1933 she was a member of the band of tenor saxophonist Jack Bradley and trumpeter Bobby Booker, which performed in Broadway Danceland in New York.

In 1937 Jones was a member of Mezz Mezzrow 's Disciples of Swing , which performed at Uproar House , New York. In 1938 she returned to Chicago, where she played again with Walter Barnes and Irene Armstrong. In February 1939 she led a women's band in Chicago, in August 1940 she played in New York with Sammy Price and in 1943 in Eddie Durham's All Star Girl Orchestra .

Dolly Jones was the first female trumpeter to record a jazz record; in the field of jazz she was involved in two recording sessions, in 1926 at Albert Wynn 's Gut Bucket Five (with Barney Bigard, among others ) and in 1941 in the Stuff Smith Sextet. In 1938 she appeared (as Doli Armena ) in Oscar Micheaux 's musical film Swing! as a soloist in the Leon Gross Orchestra and played “stimulating solos” in the titles China Boy and I May Be Wrong .

She adored Louis Armstrong and, conversely, was highly valued by him. She won a competition against Roy Eldridge . Doc Cheatham said she took the trumpet more seriously than some male colleagues: "Everyone loved her playing."

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Dolly Jones in the Internet Movie Database (English); Hans-Jürgen Schaal gives her date of birth as 1906.
  2. ↑ a b c Hans-Jürgen Schaal : Portrait in Jazzzeitung 2013 ; see. also Sally Placksin women in jazz. From the turn of the century to the present Vienna: Hannibal 1989, p. 82f.
  3. ↑ a b c Seattle Women in Jazz
  4. ↑ Isabel Eisenmann: Fanfares, Jazz and Jericho ?: The symbolism of the trumpet in the 20th century. Tectum Verlag 2007. p. 170
  5. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
  6. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography Online
  7. ↑ Dolly Jones in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  8. ↑ Sally Placksin women in jazz. Vienna 1989, p. 83 and Sherrie Tucker: Beyond the Brass Ceiling: Dolly Jones Trumpets Modernity in Oscar Micheaux's Swing doi : 10.1080 / 17494060902778092
  9. ^ John Chilton: Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz Giant , 2002, 33
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Dolly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones Hutchinson, Dolly; Armenra, Dolly (Doli)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter and cornet player
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH August 1975
Place of death Bronx , New York City