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Jo Jones. Jonathan David Samuel Jones (October 7, 1911 – September 3, 1985) [1] was an American jazz drummer. A band leader and pioneer in jazz percussion, Jones anchored the Count Basie Orchestra rhythm section from 1934 to 1948. He was sometimes known as Papa Jo Jones to distinguish him from younger drummer Philly Joe Jones .
Dec 30, 2011 · Jo Jones is one of the greatest drummer in the history of Jazz. Most inventive, he frequently improvises the most unpredictable and bold breaks with an impre...
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Dec 18, 2009 · Within a few years, “Papa” Jo became the idol of hundreds of drummers across the country who emulated the style he perfected. Jonathan David Samuel Jones was born in Chicago in 1911, and he began working with regional bands in the late 1920s. But it was within the framework of the Basie band from 1936 to 1948 that he would make his ...
Jo Jones (born October 7, 1911, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died September 3, 1985, New York, New York) was an American musician, one of the most influential of all jazz drummers, noted for his swing, dynamic subtlety, and finesse. Jones grew up in Alabama, studied music for 12 years, and became a skilled trumpeter and pianist; he toured with ...
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Jun 29, 2018 · Jones continues to be a major influence on everyone who played--and plays--drums.” At the time of my first meeting with him, I didn’t realize that Jo Jones was no longer the regular drummer with Basie’s Band and hadn’t been since leaving the Count in 1948. In the late 1950s, the drummer with the Basie Band was Sonny Payne.
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Jo Jones (October 11, 1911 – September 3, 1985) (later known as Papa Jo Jones) was a widely celebrated African-American drummer, one of the most influential in the history of jazz . At the height of the swing era, Jones introduced a regular, lightly swinging, four-beat style that came to replace the more heavily accentuated two-beat style of ...
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Jo Jones led sessions for Vanguard (1955 and 1959) and Everest (1959-60), 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. Papa Jo Jones. Drum Solo "CARAVAN".
