Jonah Jones (jazz musician)
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Robert Elliott "Jonah" Jones (* 31 December 1908 in Louisville , Kentucky ; † the 30th April 2000 in New York City ) was an American jazz - trumpet player of swing.
Life
He got his start in jazz music at the age of eleven in the Booker T. Washington Community Center Band in his hometown, where Dicky Wells began and where he was nicknamed Jonah (his boss caught him on the wrong note, but easily fell into Stuttering at the admonition of "Jones"). Like many jazz musicians at the time, he received his first professional engagement on the paddle steamers of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. In 1928 he joined the Horace Henderson Band and played from 1930 to 1931 in the band of Jimmy Lunceford . He then joined the onyx club band of swing violinist Stuff Smith in New York from 1932 to 1934 (and again from 1936 to 1940) . He also worked for Lil Hardin Armstrong , McKinney's Cotton Pickers (1935), Benny Carter (1940/41) and Teddy Wilson .
From 1941 to 1950 he was a member of the Cab Calloway band (solo on Jonah Joins the Cab 1943), where he a. a. played in a Porgy and Bess production (in the orchestra and in a small supporting role), as well as again in 1953 on Broadway . In 1946 he recorded in Paris for the Swing label ( "I'm Headin 'for Paris" ); In the early 1950s he was with Earl Hines (1952/53) and worked with Lionel Hampton , completed a very successful European tour in 1954, before founding his own quartet in 1955, which played in the "Embers". With On the street where you live they had a million hit and received a Grammy in 1958 for the album I dig chicks (Best Jazz Group Performance). Jones became a star (he was nicknamed "King Louis II" because of some similarities to Armstrong), appeared on television (including in a Fred Astaire show) and at galas with Prince Rainier of Monaco , King of Thailand or President Lyndon B. Johnson . Until the 1980s, he made successful worldwide tours (in Europe in 1988).
Jones was married to his childhood friend Elisabeth Bowles († 1993), who was a musician herself, and had four children.
Choice discography
- Jonah Jones 1936–1945 (Classics 972), with Tyree Glenn , Joe Marsala , Buster Bailey , Ike Quebec , Clyde Hart , Eddie Condon , John Kirby , Milt Hinton , Cozy Cole , George Wettling , JC Heard
literature
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
Web links
- Works by and about Jonah Jones in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography of Stanley Dance (English)
Remarks
- ↑ to archive link ( memento of the original from August 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in Kunzler Jazz-Lexikon 2002 is 1909, also in Bohländer Reclam's Jazz Guide 1989
- ↑ in Kunzler, Jazzlexikon is 1.5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jones, Jonah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones, Robert Elliott (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American swing jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Louisville , Kentucky , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 2000 |
| Place of death | New York , USA |