Jonah Jones
Age: 90 | From: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1909-12-31 07:38:12
Death: 2000-04-30 07:38:12
Aliases: Robert Jones , King Louis II
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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Movie Involvements: 1
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
Jonah Jones (born Robert Elliott Jones; December 31, 1909 – April 30, 2000) was a jazz trumpeter who created concise versions of jazz and swing and jazz standards that appealed to a mass audience. In the jazz community, he is known for his work with Stuff Smith. He was sometimes referred to as "King Louis II", a reference to Louis Armstrong. Jones started playing alto saxophone at the age of 12 in the Booker T. Washington Community Center band in Louisville, Kentucky, before quickly transitioning to trumpet, where he excelled. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonah Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
An Evening with Fred Astaire
(1958) SelfActing
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