Jonah Jones
Robert Elliott " Jonah " Jones ( born December 31, 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky, † April 30, 2000 in New York City ) was an American jazz trumpeter of the swing.
Life
His introduction to jazz music, he had the age of eleven in the Booker T.Washington Community Center band of his hometown, which also Dicky Wells started and where he got his nickname Jonah ( his boss caught him at a wrong note, but fell slightly in stuttering in the admonition of " Jones "). He received his first professional engagement as many former jazz musician on the steamers of the Mississippi and Ohio River. In 1928, he joined the Horace Henderson band and played from 1930 to 1931 in the band of Jimmy Lunceford. He then joined 1932-1934 (and again from 1936 to 1940 ) of the Onyx Club Band Swing violinist Stuff Smith in New York. 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 Cab Calloway - band ( solo on Jonah Joins the Cab 1943), where he among other things, starred in Porgy -and- Bess - production ( in orchestra and a small supporting role ), as well as again in 1953 on Broadway. In 1946, he took in Paris for the label Swing on ("I'm Headin 'for Paris "); In the early 1950s he was with Earl Hines (1952 /53) and worked with Lionel Hampton, graduated in 1954 a very successful European tour, before in 1955 he founded his own quartet, which played in " Embers ." With On the street where you live, they had a million-selling hit in 1958 and received a Grammy for the album I dig chicks ( Best Jazz Group Performance). Jones became the star (because of some similarities to Armstrong, he was nicknamed "King Louis II " ), entered on television (including in a Fred Astaire Show) and galas around with Prince Rainier of Monaco, the King of Thailand or President Lyndon B. Johnson. Until the 1980s he undertook successful worldwide tours ( as in Europe in 1988 ).
Jones was with his childhood friend, Elizabeth Bowles († 1993), who was a musician himself, married and had four children.
Auswahldiskografie
- 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