Wallace Jones
Illustration — Jones in 1943 Wallace Leon Jones (November 16, 1906, Baltimore, Maryland – March 23, 1983, New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter. Jones played in local Maryland bands such as Ike Dixon's Harmony Birds and Percy Glascoe's Kit Kat Orchestra early in his career. He moved to New York City around 1935, where he worked with Chick Webb, who was his cousin.
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Wallace Jones
Gordon Parks, Farm Security Administration · Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. · Public domain
- Born
- 1906 · Baltimore.
- Died
- 1983 · New York City.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- trumpeter · funeral director · musician
- Fields
- jazz
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Illustration — Jones in 1943 Wallace Leon Jones (November 16, 1906, Baltimore, Maryland – March 23, 1983, New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter. Jones played in local Maryland bands such as Ike Dixon's Harmony Birds and Percy Glascoe's Kit Kat Orchestra early in his career. He moved to New York City around 1935, where he worked with Chick Webb, who was his cousin.
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He joined Willie Bryant's ensemble and recorded with Putney Dandridge and Duke Ellington, and the latter where he was credited on clarinet, trombone and trumpet. He was a trumpeter in Ellington's Orchestra from 1938 to 1944 and 3 of the tripled instrumentations happening in this timeframe, replacing Arthur Whetsel, and appeared in several sound films with them, including Cabin in the Sky (1943). After this association, he recorded with Ellington again in 1947, and also worked with Benny Carter, Snub Mosley, and John Kirby, but had left music by the end of the 1940s.
Barney Bigard, Ben Webster, Otto Hardwick, Harry carney, Rex Stewart, Sonny greer, Wallace Jones, Ray Nance. Photography by William P. Gottlieb (between 1938 and 1948)
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Barney Bigard, Ben Webster, Otto Hardwick, Harry carney, Rex Stewart, Sonny greer, Wallace Jones, Ray Nance. Photography by William P. Gottlieb (between 1938 and 1948)
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1906
Wallace Jones born at Baltimore.
1983
Wallace Jones died at New York City.
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- 2."Wallace Jones". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
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(MusicBrainz artist record for Wallace Jones) • Country: US (MusicBrainz artist record for Wallace Jones) • Kind Of Artist: person (MusicBrainz artist record for Wallace Jones) • Born: Wallace Jones was born in 1906 at Baltimore.
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