David Jones (jazz musician)

David " Davey " Jones (* 1888 in Lutcher, Louisiana; † around 1953 ) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist of New Orleans jazz.

Around 1910, he played in a brass band in his home town, and soon after in the Storyville district of New Orleans. 1918 to 1921 he was in the orchestra of Fate Marable on the Mississippi steamboat SS Capitol. He played the trumpet. There was also a Louis Armstrong, whom he taught to read music. In 1921 he played with King Oliver in California and 1922 in the Record Breakers of RQ Dickerson. After that, he was with Andrew Dickerson then Preer who played in the Bostonians by Wilson Robinson and the Cotton Club in New York City. In 1925, she took on the name Cotton Club Orchestra. He then returned to New Orleans, where he led his own band in the Pelican Dance Hall, played with the Tuxedo Orchestra by William Ridgley and directed by Lee Collins Astoria Hot Eight, the. With them he took on in 1929, where he played the saxophone.

He was a multi- instrumentalist who also Mellophone, French Horn (French Horn ), drums and saxophone playing. After the memories of Danny Barker and Mellophone French Horn was his favorite instrument on which he improvised - which was then in bands mostly only when the clarinetist usual. He was also well versed in harmony and played strange changes on the Mellophone. Even so, he was a role model for Armstrong.

He also taught the young Joe Newman, who later played with Count Basie.

Lexical entry

• Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley, Jazz Rough Guide, Stuttgart 1999