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

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trumpet player.

Biography

Jones was born in Kansas City,

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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, ''

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'' and '' The Manchurian Candidate'', the latter starring Frank Sinatra. 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,

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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 Blue Note 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,

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, Rudi Wilfer and Eugen Cicero. 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, Mosaic Records released a three-CD set of Jones material in their Mosaic Select series.

Discography

As leader

* ''Carmell Jones Quartet: Previously unreleased Los Angeles Session'' (Fresh Sound Records, recorded 1960- released 2015) * ''The Remarkable Carmell Jones'' (Pacific Jazz, 1961) * ''Brass Bag'' (Pacific Jazz, 1962) – with Tricky Lofton * ''Business Meetin' '' (Pacific Jazz, 1962) * '' Jay Hawk Talk'' ( Prestige, 1965) * ''Returns'' (Revelation, 1983)

As sideman

With

* '' You Better Believe It!'' (Pacific Jazz, 1961) * '' Moment of Truth'' (Pacific Jazz, 1962) * '' Portraits'' (Pacific Jazz, 1964) * '' On Stage'' (Pacific Jazz, 1965) With others *

, '' 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) *

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, ''

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'' (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) *

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, ''

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

Quintet, ''

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'' (

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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) * Jean-Luc Ponty, ''More Than Meets the Ear'' (World Pacific, 1968) *

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, ''Birdcall'' (United Artists, 1962) * Annie Ross & Pony Poindexter, ''Recorded at the Tenth German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt'' (SABA, 1966) *

, ''

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

, '' Song for My Father'' ( Blue Note, 1965) * Horace Silver, ''

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'' (Emerald, 1984) * Sarah Vaughan, ''

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'' (Roulette/Blue Note, 1992) * Nancy Wilson, '' Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues'' ( Capital, 1963) * Jimmy Woods, '' Conflict'' ( Contemporary, 1963) *

, ''It's All Wright'' (BASF, 1973)

References

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