Articles by Harold Lamar

J.J. Jones: Reunited With His Horn

by Harold Lamar
January 1, 2007

Back during the so called “swing era of the 1940s and 50s, Jesse James “J.J. Jones Junior of Atlanta was considered one of America's most celebrated saxophone players.

Jones and his tenor sax had come to prominence amidst a plethora of horn players of the day like Eddie Harris, Earl Bostic, Sil Austin Julian “Cannonball Adderley and Stan Getz plus a generation of singing greats to include Little Richard, Billy Wright, Willie Mae “Big Mama Thornton ...