Elvin Jones
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1931-09-12
- Active to
- 2013-04-26
Discography
- Grand Ole Opry’s New Star George Jones Country Song Hits1956
- Sings 14 Top Country Favorites1957
- Country Church Time1959
- George Jones Sings White Lightning and Other Favorites1959
- George Jones Salutes Hank Williams1960
- The Crown Prince of Country Music1960
- Duets Country Style1962
- Sings Bob Wills1962
- Sings Country and Western Hits1962
- Sings the Hits of His Country Cousins1962
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Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was a jazz drummer. Elvin began playing professionally in the 1940s, working with the Army Special Services program, Operation Happiness, and in 1949 had a short-lived gig in Detroit's Grand River Street club. Eventually he went on to play with artists such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Wardell Gray. In 1955, after a failed audition for the Benny Goodman band, he found work in New York, joining Charles Mingus's band, and releasing a record
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Key facts
- Born
- Elvin Ray Jones , ( 1927-09-09 ) September 9, 1927, Pontiac, Michigan , U.S.
- Died
- May 18, 2004 (2004-05-18) (aged 76), Englewood, New Jersey , U.S.
- Genres
- Modal jazz avant-garde jazz hard bop post-bop
- Occupations
- Musician bandleader
- Instruments
- Drums percussion
- Years active
- 1948–2004
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Jones
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pontiac
- Place of death
- Englewood
- Sibling
- Hank Jones
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
- Genre
- post-bop
- Instrument
- drum kit
- Record label
- Enja Records
- Official website
- www.elvinjones.com
- Image
- Elvin Jones 1979 3.jpg
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- start of work period
- 1948-00-00
- birth name
- Elvin Ray Jones
- name in native language
- Elvin Jones
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1927-09-09
- date of death
- 2004-05-18
- Commons category
- Elvin Jones
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons gallery
- Elvin Jones
- end of work period
- 2004-00-00
- P12674
- .cat
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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Encyclopedic overview
Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era. Most famously a member of John Coltrane's quartet, with whom he recorded from late 1960 to late 1965, Jones appeared on such albums as My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme, Ascension and Live at Birdland. After 1966, Jones led his own trio, and later larger groups under the name The Elvin Jones Jazz Machine. His brothers Hank and Thad were also celebrated jazz musicians with whom he occasionally recorded. Elvin was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1995. In his The History of Jazz, jazz historian and critic Ted Gioia calls Jones "one of the most influential drummers in the history of jazz". He was also ranked at Number 23 on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time".
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elvin Jones” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.