A Touch of Blue (Remastered Edition) The Jonah Jones Quartet

• 1 So Blue 02:01
• 2 It's a Blue World 02:09
• 3 I Get the Blues When It Rains 01:49
• 4 Blues in My Heart 02:47
• 5 Blue, Turning Grey Over You 01:58
• 6 A Touch of Blue 02:11
• 7 Blue (And Broken Hearted) 01:41
• 8 Blue Champagne 02:48
• 9 Birth of the Blues 02:38
• 10 Dust Bowl Blues 02:44
• 11 Blue Danube Rock 01:58
• 12 Blue Skies 02:22
• Total Runtime 27:06

Info for A Touch of Blue (Remastered Edition)

Newly 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 was truly a man with a rare talent for playing in a way that people loved. Jones trumpet stays fairly close to the melodic line and he displays an excellent sense of timing and pacing. In these two albums he just added a new sound with the tasteful vocal backgrounds of the Swinginest Chorale. All tailored to suit the clean, compact style which became a Jonah Jones trademark.

Jonah Jones, trumpet & vocals (tracks 2, 5 & 9)
Teddy Brannon, piano
John Brown, bass
George 'Pops' Foster, drums
Swinginest Chorale

Recorded in New York City, 1960-1961

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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