Jazz Articles about Jonah Jones

Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Les Elgart & Jonah Jones

by Joe Dimino
January 11, 2026

For our final broadcast of 2025, we crack open the vinyl vault and let the turntable speak. Episode 940 of Neon Jazz kicks off in style with The Jonah Jones Quartet, spinning a gem from the 1958 classic Swinging at the Cinema. From there, we take a deep, joyful stroll through jazz history--drawing from the timeless sounds of Larry Clinton, Stan Kenton, Jimmy Dorsey, Helen O'Connell, Gerry Mulligan, Hal Kemp, Les Elgar, Buddy Morrow, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, ...

Jonah Jones Quartet: Jumpin' With Jonah

by AAJ Staff
January 20, 2003

Hey, who’s that swingin’ that horn? That sounds like Pops!

Well, though Jonah Jones and Louis "Pops" Armstrong were contemporaries, the comparisons stop there.

Actually, Jonah and Louis do sound alike. And on this album (which takes its title from Jones’s third LP, but which is here reissued with some additional tracks), Jones puts his bell mute to many of the same songs Satchmo was known for, such as "A Kiss To Build A Dream On," "Do You Know What ...