Jonah and His OLDS
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muted Jonah and his OLDS The muted jazz of Jonah Jones on his trumpet is a sound that’s keeping the jazz world talking about that Jones boy—and listening for his every mellow, muted note. It’s Jonah—leading his group in the bright,easy-swinging Jones style and adding his own lyrical improvisations and off-beat accents—who fills Manhattan’s Embers, packs Chicago’s London House, and sells his Capitol LP recordings (how they sell!). ’‘The group has reached the point where everything blends,” says Jonah, “and we have our sound.” What a sound—bright, irresistible, captivating, fascinating, subtly sophisticated. It takes an Olds to make music for Jonah. He’s played Olds trumpets—and only Olds—for the past twenty years. Jazz began for Jonah on a Mississippi riverboat back in '29. It took him through a career that reads like a history of jazz, while he matured his own unique style. Jonah has played his Olds with such all-time greats as Horace Henderson, Wesley Helvey, Jimmie Lunceford, Stuff Smith, Lil Armstrong, McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, Fletcher Henderson, Benny Carter, Cab Callaway, Dizzy Gillespie, and many others. He and his Olds have toured Europe, played in the pit for Porgy and Bess, appeared at the swankiest night cpots and on TV spectaculars—he was fabulous recently in “An Evening With Fred Astaire.” Jazz devotees who hear Jonah’s muted Olds—and late at night his open horn—say no one sends them like Jonah. ja»r like Jonah’s happens only with an F. E. OLDS & SON Fullerton, California INC JONAH JONES QUARTET, Capitol Raearding Artitti.