Virgil Jones

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Virgil Jones (born August 26, 1939 in Indianapolis , Indiana ; † April 20, 2012 there ) was an American trumpeter and flugelhorn player of modern jazz .

Live and act

Jones became known in the early 1960s when he played in the bands of Milt Jackson , Roland Kirk , with Frank Foster in 1965 . Around 1970 he worked in the soul jazz environment with musicians such as Charles Earland , Harold Mabern ( Wailin ' ), Don Patterson , Houston Person , Grover Washington Jr. , Johnny Hammond Smith and Sonny Stitt . In 1972 he played in The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band ( The Alpine Power Planet ); In 1973 he was a member of the McCoy Tyner big band ( Song of the New World ). In 1975 Jones played in Billy Harper's quintet ( Black Saint ). In the late 1980s he played again in McCoy Tyners Band ( Uptown / Downtown ); in the late 1990s he was involved in TS Monk's album Monk on Monk , played with Teddy Edwards and took part in the big band production Shade of Jade in the Joe Henderson band.

Jones also worked on the Broadway performance of the musicals Black and Blue and Jelly's Last Jam and Jelly's Red Hot Peppers with and on the score for the films Ed's Next Move (1996) and She's Gotta Have It (1986 by Spike Lee ). He can also be heard on the album Coolin '' N Groovin ' (1995), on which he a. a. played with Chuck Rainey , Bernard Purdie and Lou Donaldson .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notification of death at Organissimo
  2. ↑ Virgil Jones in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ↑ Virgil Jones at Discogs (English)
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Virgil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianapolis , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2012
Place of death Indianapolis