Carmell Jones (July 19, 1936 – November 7, 1996) was an American

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trumpet player.

Biography

Jones was born in

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, United States. He started piano lessons at age five, and trumpet lessons at age seven. His first professional work was with Kansas City musicians Nathan Davis, Cleanhead Vinson and Frank Smith. He moved to California in 1961, 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

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. He released two albums as a leader for Pacific Jazz at this time while recording as a sideman with

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, Onzy Matthews, Curtis Amy,

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, and

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. He toured with

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in 1964–65, and was on Silver's seminal 1965

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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, Rudi Wilfer and

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. 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

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label. Jones died of

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on November 7, 1996, in Kansas City at the age of 60. In 2003,

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released a three-CD set of Jones material.

Discography

As leader

* ''The Remarkable Carmell Jones'' (Pacific Jazz, 1961) * ''Brass Bag'' with

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(Pacific Jazz, 1962) * ''Business Meetin' '' (Pacific Jazz, 1962) * '' Jay Hawk Talk'' (

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, 1965) * ''Returns'' (Revelation, 1983) * ''Carmell Jones Quartet: Previously unreleased Los Angeles Session'' (Fresh Sound, 2015)

As sideman

With

* '' You Better Believe It!'' (Pacific Jazz, 1961) * '' Moment of Truth'' (Pacific Jazz, 1962) * ''

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'' (Pacific Jazz, 1964) * '' On Stage'' (Pacific Jazz, 1965) With others * Curtis Amy, '' Groovin' Blue'' (Pacific Jazz, 1961) * Nathan Davis ''The Hip Walk'' (SABA, 1965) *

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, '' The Blues Book'' (Prestige, 1965) * Booker Ervin, '' Groovin' High'' (Prestige, 1966) * Victor Feldman, '' Soviet Jazz Themes'' (Äva, 1963) * Paul Kuhn, ''The Big Hits of the Big Bands'' (Columbia/EMI 1972) * Paul Kuhn, ''The Big Band Beatles'' (EMI, 1977) *

, '' Jazz Impressions of Folk Music'' (Imperial, 1963) * Jim Mair, ''8th & Central'' (JMP, 1991) *

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, '' Latin Mann'' (Columbia, 1965) * Charles McPherson, '' Bebop Revisited!'' (Prestige, 1965) * Red Mitchell-

Quintet, '' Hear Ye!'' (

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, 1962) *

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, ''Tathagata'' (Wind, 1980) *

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, '' Berlin Dialogue for Orchestra'' (

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, 1971) *

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, ''More Than Meets the Ear'' (World Pacific, 1968) * Vi Redd, ''Birdcall'' (United Artists, 1962) * Annie Ross & Pony Poindexter, ''Recorded at the Tenth German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt'' (SABA, 1966) *

, '' Barefoot Adventure'' (Pacific Jazz, 1961) * Bud Shank, '' New Groove'' (Pacific Jazz, 1961) *

, '' Song for My Father'' (

, 1965) * Horace Silver, '' Live 1964'' (Emerald, 1984) *

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, '' Sarah Sings Soulfully'' (Roulette/Blue Note, 1992) * Tim Whitmer, ''Humorous Intentions'' (Canyon Don, 1991) * Nancy Wilson, '' Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues'' (

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, 1963) * Jimmy Woods, '' Conflict'' (

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, 1963) * Leo Wright, ''It's All Wright'' (BASF, 1973)

References

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