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Harold Jones

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Harold Jones was born February 27, 1940 in Richmond, Indiana, where he lived until 1958. In the 1950’s Jones gives credit to his first teacher Jack Kurkowski, a vaudeville performer for teaching him to read music before he even owned a drum. He began drumming at 14 when he enrolled at summer music camp in his native Richmond, Ind. In Richmond High School he played in the orchestra, dance band, pep band, marching band, and concert band. In 1958, with the help of his teacher, Robert Carr, he won a scholarship to the American Conservatory of Music, Chicago, under the direction of James Dutton
Driftin' Blues

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Driftin' Blues; Walk With Me; Just The Way You Are; I Wanna Go Home.
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2020

by Mark Sullivan
2020 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Various Venues Montréal, Canada June 27-30, 2020 Above all else the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal is a spectacular ten-day event: with around 2 million visitors and 500 concerts on 20 stages, it is ranked as the world's largest jazz ...
Paul Winter Sextet: Count Me In

by Duncan Heining
The Paul Winter Sextet might just be one of the best early sixties groups you never heard. Their story, and that of their leader and altoist Paul Winter's, is certainly one of the most remarkable in jazz. Had some director made a film of the Sextet's short life, jazz buffs would have scoffed at the conceit. ...
Live From Birmingham: The Pedigree Jazz Band, Tony Bennett, The Fat Chops Big Band

by Martin Longley
The Pedigree Jazz Band Solihull British Legion September 7, 2014 It's a curious sensation when tributes are paid to revivals of revivals. Down the decades since the original jazz repertoire was established in the 1920s, '30s, and even earlier, there have been a multitude of responses, counter-responses, exhumations and ...
Stan Kenton-UW Eau Claire / Kirk MacDonald Orchestra / Kansas City Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
Stan Kenton Orchestra/UW-Eau Claire Jazz Ensemble 1Double Feature, Vol. 3Tantara Productions2012 Volume 3 in Tantara's ongoing two-CD series of Double Features, encompassing heretofore unissued music by the Stan Kenton Orchestra and guests, covers parts of five Kenton concerts spanning the years 1971-77 on Disc 1, and presents ...
John di Martino: Piano Man In/On Demand

by Marcia Hillman
John di Martino is a New York area based pianist, composer, arranger and Venus recording artist. He is a sought after musical director and is in demand by many singers as an accompanist, having accompanied such singers as Jon Hendricks, Sylvia Sims, Diane Schuur and Billy Eckstine. His talents as a pianist and arranger can be ...
Jumpin' at the Border

By Josh Workman
Label: Tetrachord
Released: 2004
Track listing: Jumpin' At The Border;
Sippin' At Bell's;
André De Sapato Novo;
Monkish;
Autumn Nocturne;
The Sweetest Sounds;
No Me Platiques Mas;
Ow!;
I Can't Face the Music/I Want a Little Boy;
Nono;
Take Me in Your Arms;
Kali Sara;
You're Driving Me Crazy;
My Pearl;
Carinhoso;
Pixinguinha;
You're Blasé