Icons of Jazz: Jonah Jones - The Trumpet Man (Remastered) Jonah Jones

• 1 Hey There 02:38
• 2 Just A Gigolo 02:00
• 3 Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom 02:28
• 4 I Could Have Danced All Night (from "My Fair Lady") 02:23
• 5 So Blue 01:59
• 6 Misty 02:13
• 7 Lots Of Luck, Charley 02:24
• 8 On The Sunny Side Of The Street 02:30
• 9 Blue Skies 02:20
• 10 Birth Of The Blues 02:36
• 11 Tammy 02:31
• 12 Nine-Twenty-Special 02:09
• 13 You're Driving Me Crazy 02:06
• 14 The Party's Over 02:30
• Total Runtime 32:47

Info zu Icons of Jazz: Jonah Jones - The Trumpet Man (Remastered)

Jonah Jones zoomed to popularity in the late 50s. He found a successful formula and used it to brighten the hit charts with a succession of bouncy albums on Capitol Records. His quartet was one of the three newcomers in the Top 10 wide variety of small groups listed in the favorite Instrumental Billboard lists in 1958.

Jonah Jones, trumpet, vocals
Sam Price, piano
Vic Dickenson, trombone
Pete Brown, alt saxophone
Milt Hinton, double bass
Cozy Cole, drums

Digitally remastered

Jonah Jones (1909-2000)
was one of the most popular jazz trumpet players of all time, and he blew his first note in the Louisville, Kentucky, orphanage that he called home. He was born in Louisville in 1908, and it was Bessie T. Allen, the orphanage director, who encouraged Jonah to nurture his outstanding talent. Allen founded the old Booker T. Washington Community Center at Ninth and Magazine Streets.

Jones got his start playing cornet in the community center band before quickly transitioning to trumpet, where he excelled. As a young man, Jones left Louisville to begin his career playing with big bands and jazz groups that would propel him to stardom throughout the classical jazz era of the thirties until the sixties. He played on Mississippi riverboats with smaller triad jazz ensembles and ended up a big-band star early in his career. Jones and Bop-legend Dizzy Gillespie were both members of Calloway, who performed in the trumpet section of the Cab Calloway Orchestra.

Jonah Jones won a Grammy in 1959 for the album, I Dig Chicks. He was truly an entertainer who connected with the audience through lovely melodies that he both sang and played on the trumpet. He was sometimes referred to as “King Louis II,” a reference to Louis Armstrong.

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