ELVIN JONES
The youngest brother, Jones, Elvin Ray Jones (Pontiac, 1927) began his career with his brothers, the magnificent trumpeter Thad Jones and the extraordinary pianist, Hank Jones, before starting his solo career in the fifties hand from the bebop musicians such as Charles Mingus and Bud Powell.
And her skill on the drums began to attract the attention in the program of the best musicians of the era and thus worked with virtually every great jazz from the forties and fifties: Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis at meetings of the Village Vanguard in 1955, with the group’s extraordinary trombonist Jay Jay Johnson from 1956 to 1957, with the extraordinary trumpeter Donald Byrd in 1958, and the final step in his career and which will go down in jazz history, their extraordinary work with saxophonist, John Coltrane, in their different groups between 1960 and 1965. Read the rest of this entry »
The trumpeter Bunk Johnson, belongs to that class of legendary musicians of the early era of African American music when he still had not been invented the gramophone and the musicians played at social events in the city, in the gambling dens and brothels of the neighborhood prohibited New Orleans, “Storyville”. It also has to Bunk Johnson, met and played the legendary cornetist Buddy Bolden, who was said – there is no record to prove it – there never was a cornet player like him.Since 1894, Bunk Johnson was part of the orchestra Adam Oliver, with whom he remained until 1914. He had previously gone to New York, Dallas and San Francisco in 1903 and when I return to New Orleans entered the