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Jonah Jones Quartet

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 ...

Jumpin with Jonah

By Jonah Jones Quartet

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: No Moon at All; Baby, Won't You Please Come Home#; Bill Bailey (Won't You Please Come Home); The Blues Don't Care (Who Got `Em); Jumpin' with Jonah; Just a Gigolo; It's a Good Day#; Dance only with Me; Lots of Luck Charley; A Kiss to Build a Dream on; That's A Plenty#; Moten Swing; Slowly But Surely; Night Train; Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?; Ballin' the Jack

Jonah Jones Quartet: Jumpin with Jonah

by Dave Nathan
November 1, 2000

Jazz gurus (self appointed or otherwise) typically dismiss Jonah Jones as a piece of fluff, more interested in dispensing sterilized jazz pablum to the public rather than being creative and innovative. Jones decided not to climb on the Be Bop train of the 1940's and 1950's, pretty much ignoring the new paths being struck by fellow ...