Artist
Elvin Jones was born September 9, 1927 in Pontiac, Michigan, USA.
Died on May 18, 2004, Englewood, New Jersey, USA, from heart failure.
Called by Life magazine "the world's greatest rhythmic drummer". He had two musician brothers: Hank Jones, a jazz pianist, and Thad Jones, a trumpet and flugelhorn player. Jones entered the Detroit jazz scene in the late 1940s after touring as a stagehand with the Army Special Services show Operation Happiness. After a brief gig at the Detroit club Grand River Street, he went to work at another club, backing up such jazz greats as Parker, Davis and Wardell Grey. Jones, with his rhythmic, innovative style, became one of jazz's most famous drummers under Coltrane.
Tracks
1
Dear John C.
03:51
2
Smoke Rings
03:39
3
Love Bird
03:47
4
Feeling Good
04:05
5
Anthropology
04:09
6
This Love Of Mine
04:20
7
Fantazm
03:55
8
Ballade
05:18
9
Everything Happens To Me
05:50
Releases
Labels
Analogue Productions, GRP, His Master's Voice, Impulse!, Sparton Impulse! Records, ABC Impulse!, MCA Impulse!
Countries
Canada, Japan, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Europe
years
1965, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1990, 1993, 1998, 2001, 2011, 2012, 2021