Carmell Jones

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Carmell Jones
Born(1936-07-19)July 19, 1936
DiedNovember 7, 1996(1996-11-07) (aged 60)
GenresJazz, hard bop
InstrumentsTrumpet
Years active1961–91
LabelsPacific Jazz, Prestige

Carmell Jones (July 19, 1936 – November 7, 1996) was an American jazz trumpet player.

Biography[]

Jones was born in Kansas City, Kansas. He started piano lessons at age five, and trumpet lessons at age seven. His first professional work was with Kansas City greats Nathan Davis, Cleanhead Vinson and Frank Smith. He moved to California in 1960 and worked as a studio musician for several years, including in the orchestras for two movie soundtracks, Seven Days In May and The Manchurian Candidate, the latter starring Frank Sinatra.[1] He released two albums as a leader for Pacific Jazz at this time, while recording as a sideman with Bud Shank, Onzy Matthews, Curtis Amy, Harold Land, and Gerald Wilson.[2] He toured with Horace Silver in 1964-65, and was on Silver's seminal 1965 Blue Note album Song for My Father. In 1965 he moved to Germany where he lived for 15 years, working with Paul Kuhn and the SFB Big Band (Sender Freies Berlin) from 1968 to 1980. There he worked with musicians such as Milo Pavlovic, Herb Geller, Leo Wright, and Eugen Cicero. Jones returned to the US in 1980, working as a teacher and appearing at local clubs in Kansas City. He released one additional album as a leader in 1982 entitled Carmell Jones Returns, on the Revelation label.[3] Jones died of heart failure on November 7, 1996 in Kansas City at the age of 60.[4][5]

In 2003, Mosaic Records released a three-CD set of Jones material in their Mosaic Select series.[6]

Discography[]

As leader[]

  • The Remarkable Carmell Jones (Pacific Jazz, 1961)
  • Brass Bag with Tricky Lofton (Pacific Jazz, 1962)
  • Business Meetin' (Pacific Jazz, 1962)
  • Jay Hawk Talk (Prestige, 1965)
  • Returns (Revelation, 1983)

As sideman[]

With Gerald Wilson

With others

References[]

  1. ^ "CARMELL JONES - biography 1". www.andrecondouant.de. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  2. ^ All About Jazz: Carmell Jones musician page Archived July 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ RETROFUZZ. "Carmell Jones | Artists". Blue Note Records. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  4. ^ Andre Condouant's Carmell Jones site Archived May 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ https://www.grammyconnect.com/people/carmell-jones
  6. ^ All About Jazz review: Mosaic Select 2
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