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Jo Jones

Jazz

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Listen to Perdido (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York / 1947) by Illinois Jacquet, Howard McGhee, Bill Harris, Flip Phillips, Hank Jones, Ray Brown & Jo Jones, see lyrics, music video & more!
Perdido (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York / 1947)Illinois Jacquet, Howard McGhee, Bill Harris, Flip Phillips, Hank Jones, Ray Brown & Jo Jones
Listen to Caravan by Jo Jones, see lyrics, music video & more!
CaravanJo Jones
Listen to Sweet Georgia Brown by Jo Jones, see lyrics, music video & more!
Sweet Georgia BrownJo Jones
Listen to I Found a New Chapeau by Jo Jones, see lyrics, music video & more!
I Found a New ChapeauJo Jones
Listen to Body and Soul by Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Knepper, Jo Jones, Roy Eldridge & Tommy Flanagan, see lyrics, music video & more!
Body and SoulCharles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Knepper, Jo Jones, Roy Eldridge & Tommy Flanagan
Listen to Jive At Five by Jo Jones, see lyrics, music video & more!
Jive At FiveJo Jones
Listen to If I Had You (feat. Emmett Berry, Billy Taylor, Eddie Bert, Jo Jones & Milt Hinton) by Coleman Hawkins & His All Star Jam Band, see lyrics, music video & more!
If I Had You (feat. Emmett Berry, Billy Taylor, Eddie Bert, Jo Jones & Milt Hinton)Coleman Hawkins & His All Star Jam Band
Listen to Rent Free by Devin Hoffman, Jo Jones & Joey Soprano, see lyrics, music video & more!
Rent FreeDevin Hoffman, Jo Jones & Joey Soprano
Listen to Liza by Jo Jones, see lyrics, music video & more!
LizaJo Jones
Listen to Bebop Irishman by Jo Jones, see lyrics, music video & more!
Bebop IrishmanJo Jones

More albums from Jo Jones

Listen to Buck and Jo (The Complete Panassié Sessions 1971-1974) by Milt Buckner & Jo Jones
ALBUMBuck and Jo (The Complete Panassié Sessions 1971-1974)Milt Buckner & Jo Jones
Listen to The Everest Years: Jo Jones by Jo Jones
ALBUMThe Everest Years: Jo JonesJo Jones
Listen to Smiles (1969-1975) [The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions] by Jo Jones
ALBUMSmiles (1969-1975) [The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions]Jo Jones
Listen to Vamp Till Ready by Jo Jones
ALBUMVamp Till ReadyJo Jones
Listen to Percussion and Bass by Jo Jones & Milt Hinton
ALBUMPercussion and BassJo Jones & Milt Hinton

About Jo Jones

Listen to Jo Jones, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
Hometown
Chicago, IL, United States
Born
October 7, 1911
Genre
Jazz
Jo Jones shifted the timekeeping role of the drums from the bass drum to the hi-hat cymbal, greatly influencing all swing and bop drummers. Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson were just two musicians who learned from his light but forceful playing, as Jones swung the Count Basie Orchestra with just the right accents and sounds. After growing up in Alabama, Jones worked as a drummer and tap dancer with carnival shows. He joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in Oklahoma City in the late '20s. After a period with Lloyd Hunter's band in Nebraska, Jones moved to Kansas City in 1933, joining Count Basie's band the following year. He went with Basie to New York in 1936 and with Basie, Freddie Green, and Walter Page, he formed one of the great rhythm sections. Jones was with the Basie band (other than 1944-1946 when he was in the military) until 1948, and in later years, he participated in many reunions with Basie alumni. He was on some Jazz at the Philharmonic tours and recorded in the '50s with Illinois Jacquet, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Art Tatum, and Duke Ellington, among others; Jones appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival with both Basie and the Coleman Hawkins-Roy Eldridge Sextet. He led sessions for Vanguard (1955 and 1959) and Everest (1959-1960), a date for Jazz Odyssey on which he reminisced and played drum solos (1970), and mid-'70s sessions for Pablo and Denon. In later years he was known as "Papa" Jo Jones, and thought of as a wise if brutally frank elder statesman. ~ Scott Yanow
Jo Jones has also released music as a member of The Jones Boys, Count Basie Band, Oscar Pettiford Quartet, The Jimmy Rushing All Stars, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Charlie Shavers Quintet, Jo Jones All Stars, Jones-Smith Incorporated, The Kansas City Six, and Kansas City Five.

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