Jazz Articles about Jonah Jones

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 ...