Jones, Harold

Harold Jones
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Name	Jones, Harold Gender: M
Birthname	Harold Jerome Jones
born on	27 February 1940 at 11:20 (= 11:20 AM )
Place	Richmond, Indiana, 39n50, 84w53
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	07°59' 07°48 Asc. 23°09'

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Harold Jones (at the White House in 1962)

Biography

American traditional pop and jazz drummer best known as the drummer for Tony Bennett and for his five years with the Count Basie Orchestra.

In a career spanning six decades, Jones has toured and recorded with Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, B.B. King, and Ray Charles. He has also played with major symphony orchestras, including those in Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Vienna.

In 1967, while house drummer at the Chicago Playboy Club, he was invited to New York for what was intended to be a two-week engagement with Count Basie's orchestra but which lasted five years. Jones played on fifteen albums with Basie. He also appears in a scene featuring the Basie band in the movie Blazing Saddles.

After leaving the Basie band, Jones was much in demand. He toured with Ella Fitzgerald, then for ten years with Sarah Vaughan. He also toured and recorded with Natalie Cole, including on her album Unforgettable... with Love. In 1962, he was a member of the Paul Winter Sextet, the first jazz group to play at the White House since the 1920s. The group had finished a tour of Latin America on behalf of United States Cultural Exchange Programs. Jones has played at the White House five times. Still a touring drummer, Jones also teaches drumming at college workshops.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• associate relationship with Bennett, Tony (born 3 August 1926)

• associate relationship with Charles, Ray (born 23 September 1930)

• associate relationship with Cole, Natalie (born 6 February 1950)

• associate relationship with Ellington, Duke (born 29 April 1899)

• associate relationship with Fitzgerald, Ella (born 25 April 1917)

• associate relationship with Hancock, Herbie (born 12 April 1940)

• associate relationship with Hedges, John (born 26 January 1928). Notes: Members of The Carol Lou Trio, 1956-1957

• associate relationship with King, B.B. (born 16 September 1925)

• associate relationship with Sinatra, Frank (born 12 December 1915)

• associate relationship with Vaughan, Sarah (born 27 March 1924)

• associate relationship with Winter, Paul (born 6 February 1906). Notes: Members of Paul Winter Sextet, 1962

• associate relationship with Woodward, Carol Lou (born 20 May 1931). Notes: Members of The Carol Lou Trio, 1956-1957

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield provided birth certificate from Indiana archives.

Categories

• Traits : Body : Race (Black)

• Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)

• Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Three)

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist (Drummer)

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Jazz

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Music teacher (Drumming)

• Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession