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Jo Jones

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Aliases
Jo Jones and His Orchestra
Jo Jones Trio
The Jo Jones Trio
Real name
Jonathan David Samuel Jones
Born
October 7, 1911
Died
September 3, 1985
Country
United States
Comments
Influential jazz drummer who played in many styles. Not to be confused with the also influential drummer Philly Joe Jones.
Member of
Kansas City Five [US2]
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Covers by Jo Jones

Title Performer Release date Originally by
i 1971 Margaret Simms & Paul Bass
i 1961 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
i   1971 David Brooks and Marion Bell PRF, David Brooks and Marion Bell with Brigadoon Orchestra conducted by Franz Allers REC,REL
i   1974 Ethel Waters BRD,REC,REL
i   1978 Frances Williams PRF, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC
i 1974 Prince's Band
i 1974 "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
i 1974 Prince's Band
listen on Internet Archive i 1951 Eva Puck and Sam White
1959 King Carter and His Royal Orchestra (Mills' Blue Rhythm Band)
listen on Internet Archive 1937 "Pine Top" Smith
i 1978 Count Basie and His Orchestra
i   1960 Eddie Quillan and Arline Judge REC,BRD, Ginger Rogers and Willie Howard PRF
i 1955 Barney Bigard and His Jazzopaters
i   1974 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Weston Vaughan REC,REL, Pit Musicians [What Price Glory] PRF
i 1971 Barney Bigard and Orchestra
i 1959 Freddie Martin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Elmer Feldkamp
i 1959 Ray Bryant Trio
i 1972 Count Basie & His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i 1951 Jessie Matthews
i   1974 The Revelers [US1] REC,REL, Eddie Cantor PRF
i   1985 The Revelers [US1] REC,REL, Eddie Cantor PRF
i   1955 Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns PRF, Majestic Dance Orchestra [Lou God] - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman REC
February 1937 Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra
i   1972 Benny Goodman Sextet REL,REC
  1959 Fred Astaire BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Bob Lytell REC
i 1985 The Boardwalk Orchestra (Ben Selvin)
i 1974 Eddie Leonard
1959 Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Larry Taylor
i 1961 Eva Taylor, Accomp. by Clarence Williams Blue Five
i 1974 Eva Taylor, Accomp. by Clarence Williams Blue Five
i 1959 Ethel Merman
i 1974 (unknown)
i   1971 Beatrice Lillie PRF, Sam Lanin and His Orchestra REC
i 1974 Ethel Waters and Her Singing Orch. arranged and directed by Will Marion Cook
i 1972 "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
i 1985 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
i 1978 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
i 1972 (unknown)
i 1972 "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
i 1959 Mills Blue Rhythm Band under the Direction of Lucky Millinder, Count Basie and His Orchestra
i 1957 Mills Blue Rhythm Band under the Direction of Lucky Millinder, Count Basie and His Orchestra
i   1974 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Allen REC,REL, June Knight & Charles Walters PRF
i   1971 Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) REC, Lawrence Gray BRD
i 1972 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
i 1974 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra, Elisabeth Welch and Chorus PRF, The Ambassadors [US2] REC, Arthur Gibbs and His Gang REL
i 1972 James P. Johnson
i   1971 Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC, Walter Catlett PRF
i 1971 Sam Lanin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Paul Small
i   1960 Sammy Fain REC, Nick Lucas and Ruby Keeler BRD
i   1985 Pickens Sisters REC, Bing Crosby BRD
i 1955 Billie Holiday
i 1971 Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i   1951 Sterling Holloway & Bobbie Perkins PRF, Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra REC
i   1959 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
i   1959 Jules Bledsoe PRF, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
  1959 Jules Bledsoe PRF, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
i 1974 Count Basie and His Orchestra
i   1971 Harry Richman PRF, Ted Lewis and His Band REC
i   1974 Harry Richman PRF, Ted Lewis and His Band REC
i 1974 Hudson - DeLange Orchestra
i 1959 Ray Bryant Trio
i   1972 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra REC,REL, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers BRD
i 1960 Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds
i 1959 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
i 1971 Count Basie and His Orchestra
i 1955 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
i February 1937 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
i   1960 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL, Victor Arden-Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Burt Lorin REC
i 1971 Casa Loma Orchestra
i 1978 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
1959 Margaret Young
i 1972 Alberta Hunter and Ray's Dreamland Orchestra
i 1959 The Six Hottentots - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman
i 1972 The Six Hottentots - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman
i Splittin' The Jo Jones Trio 1959 Unverified
i 1978 Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra
  1959 Helen Jepson REL, Abbie Mitchell PRF, Abbie Mitchell under the direction of George Gershwin REC
i 1959 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
i 1971 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
i 1972 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
i 1974 Conway's Band
i 1959 The Radiolites [Ben Selvin]
  1959 Adele Astaire & Allen Kearns PRF, Frank Crumit REC,REL
1961 Tennessee Ten (Original Memphis Five), Anna Meyers and Original Memphis Five
i 1978 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
i   1972 Helen Clark–Lewis James REC, Phyllis Cleveland and Jack Barker PRF
i 1972 Nat "King" Cole
i 1971 Slim and Slam
i 1971 Isham Jones' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Woody Herman
i 1985 Fred Astaire
1959 Hot Lips Page and His Orchestra
i   1960 Broadway Nitelites - Vocal Chorus by Franklyn Baur REC,REL, William Gaxton & Constance Carpenter PRF
i   1974 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by The Rhythm Boys BRD,REC
i 1972 Richard Bold and Rosalind Fuller
i 1961 James Moody and His Bop Men featuring Chano Pozo
  1959 Ted Bartell & His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Tom Frawley REC, Hal Skelly BRD, Ethel Waters REL
1959 Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Ginny Simms & Harry Babbitt
i 1961 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
i 1959 Gene Austin
1959 Ted Fiorito & His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i 1951 John Hundley & Lillian Taiz
i 1972 New Orleans Rhythm Kings
i 1961 Bing Crosby
i 1978 Bing Crosby
i 1974 Mills Brothers
listen on Internet Archive i 1951 Al Jolson
i   1972 Maurice Chevalier BRD, Ed. Loyd and His Orchestra (Ed Kirkeby) REC
1959 Ray McKinley and Some of The Boys
i   1960 Bebe Daniels BRD, Waring's Pennsylvanians - Vocal Refrain by Tom Waring REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive i 1951 Busby Berkeley and Joyce Barber

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