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Joe Jones (other)
Joe Jones may refer to: Art and entertainment * Joe Jones (artist) (1909–1963), American painter, muralist, and lithographer * Jo Jones (1911–1985), American swing era jazz drummer * Philly Joe Jones (1923–1985), American modern jazz drummer * Joe Jones (singer) (1926–2005), American rhythm and blues singer and composer * Joe Jones (Fluxus musician) (1934–1993), American avant-garde musician associated with Fluxus * Boogaloo Joe Jones (born 1940), American jazz guitarist who first recorded as Joe Jones Sports * Joe Jones (footballer) (1887–1941), Welsh international footballer who also played for Stoke, Crystal Palace and Coventry * Joe Jones (rugby) (1916–1974), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 1940s * Joe Jones (baseball) (born 1941), American professional baseball coach and manager * Joe Jones (cyclist) (born 1944), Canadian Olympic cyclist * Joe Jones (defensive end) (born 1948), American football player for the NFL's Cleveland Browns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Jones (artist)
Joseph John Jones (1909–1963) was an American painter, landscape painter, lithographer, and muralist. ''Time'' magazine followed him throughout his career. Jones was associated with the John Reed Club and his name is closely associated with its artistic members, most of them also contributors to the ''New Masses'' magazine. Background Jones was born in St. Louis, Missouri, April 7, 1909. Self-taught, he quit school at age fifteen to work as a house painter, his father's profession. Career Jones worked in his native St. Louis, Missouri, until age 27, then spent the rest of his life based in or around New York City. His work is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Missouri Jones' experiments in painting won him a series of prizes at the St. Louis Art Guild exhibitions. Followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Jones
Jonathan David Samuel Jones (October 7, 1911 – September 3, 1985) was an American jazz drummer. A band leader and pioneer in jazz percussion, Jones anchored the Count Basie Orchestra rhythm section from 1934 to 1948. He was sometimes known as Papa Jo Jones to distinguish him from younger drummer Philly Joe Jones. Biography Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, Jones moved to Alabama, where he learned to play several instruments, including saxophone, piano, and drums. He worked as a drummer and tap-dancer at carnival shows until joining Walter Page's band, the Blue Devils in Oklahoma City in the late 1920s. He recorded with trumpeter Lloyd Hunter's Serenaders in 1931, and later joined pianist Count Basie's band in 1934. Jones, Basie, guitarist Freddie Green and bassist Walter Page were sometimes billed as an "All-American Rhythm section," an ideal team. Jones took a brief break for two years when he was in the military, but he remained with Basie until 1948. He p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philly Joe Jones
Joseph Rudolph "Philly Joe" Jones (July 15, 1923 – August 30, 1985) was an American jazz drummer. Biography Early career As a child, Jones appeared as a featured tap dancer on ''The Kiddie Show'' on the Philadelphia radio station WIP. He was in the US Army during World War II. In 1947 he became the house drummer at Café Society in New York City, where he played with the leading bebop players of the day, including Tadd Dameron. From 1955 to 1958, Jones toured and recorded with Miles Davis Quintet — a band that became known as "The Quintet" (along with Red Garland on piano, John Coltrane on sax, and Paul Chambers on bass). Davis acknowledged that Jones was his favorite drummer, and stated in his autobiography that he would always listen for Jones in other drummers. From 1958, Jones worked as a leader, but continued to work as a sideman with other musicians, including Bill Evans and Hank Mobley. Evans, like Davis, also openly stated that Jones was his all-time favorite drumm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Jones (singer)
Joseph Charles Jones (August 12, 1926 – November 27, 2005) was an American R&B singer, songwriter and arranger, who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Jones is also generally credited with discovering the Dixie Cups. He also worked with B.B. King. As a singer, Jones had his biggest hit in the form of the Top Five 1960 R&B hit " You Talk Too Much", which also reached No. 3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. Career Jones served in the U.S. Navy, where he played piano in a band, before studying music at the Juilliard Conservatory of Music. He formed a band, Joe Jones and his Atomic Rebops, in the late 1940s; band members played on Roy Brown's 1947 hit "Good Rocking Tonight".Joe Jones Obituary, ''The Independent'', 24 December 2005 Retrieved October 12, 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Jones (Fluxus Musician)
Joe Jones (1934 in New York City – 1993 in Wiesbaden) was an American avant-garde musician associated with Fluxus especially known for his creation of rhythmic music machines. Formation Joe Jones grew up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and received a classical musical education at Hartnett Music School in New York City. In the late 1950s he began a short career as a jazz drummer. In 1960 Jones began to study avant-garde experimental composition first briefly with John Cage and then Earle Brown. Through these associations he formed an artistic alliance with Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles and La Monte Young. Fluxus Jones first started experimenting with mechanical instruments in 1962, creating objects like musical boats, solar music umbrellas and a pedaled vehicle that pulled handmade instruments on wheels called "The Longest Pull Toy in the World".Obituaries, New York Times, 2/18/1993 "Joe Jones, an Artist With a Musical Bent and an Inventor, 58" The following year his works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boogaloo Joe Jones
Ivan Joseph Jones (born November 1, 1940), known professionally as Joe Jones or Boogaloo Joe Jones, is an American jazz guitarist. Discography As leader * ''Introducing the Psychedelic Soul Jazz Guitar of Joe Jones'' [AKA ''The Mindbender''] (Prestige Records, Prestige PR 7557, 1968; reissued on BGP/Ace Records (United Kingdom), Ace in 1993) * ''My Fire! More of the Psychedelic Soul Jazz Guitar of Joe Jones'' (Prestige PR 7613, 1968; reissued on BGP/Ace in 1993) * ''Boogaloo Joe'' (Prestige PR 7697, 1969) -with Rusty Bryant, Sonny Phillips * ''Right On Brother'' (Prestige PR 7766, 1970) -with Rusty Bryant, Charles Earland * ''No Way!'' (Prestige PR 10004, 1971) -with Grover Washington Jr., Sonny Phillips, Butch Cornell * ''What It Is (Boogaloo Joe Jones album), What It Is'' (Prestige PR 10035, 1971) -with Grover Washington Jr., Butch Cornell * ''Snake Rhythm Rock'' (Prestige PR 10056, 1973; reissued on BGP/Ace in 1992) -with Rusty Bryant, Butch Cornell * ''Black Whip'' (Prestige ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Jones (footballer)
Joseph Thomas Jones (9 January 1887 – 23 July 1941) was a Welsh footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke, Crystal Palace, Coventry City and Crewe Alexandra. He also made 15 appearances for the Wales national team. Career Jones, who was born in Rhosymedre, Wales, was one of a select band of footballers who appeared for a club before, during and after the First World War. Jones spent ten years with Stoke making almost 130 senior appearances and 133 during the war. Described as a solid uncompromising, yet bustling-type of a defender with a fantastic heading ability who had a great enthusiasm for the game. He became captain for both club and country, and helped Stoke to re-gain their English Football League status in 1914–15 and also finish runners-up of the Lancashire Football section in 1917–18 and 1918–19 before leaving to join Crystal Palace. At Palace he helped the club become champions of the Third Division, in its inaugural season in 1920–21, making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Jones (rugby)
Joseph Jones (20 April 1916 – 11 January 1974) was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Cilfynydd RFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain and Wales, and at club level for Wigan and Barrow, as a , or . Background Joe Jones was born in Cilfynydd, Wales, and he died aged 57 in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Playing career International honours Joe Jones won 15 caps for Wales (RL) in 1940–1949 while at Wigan and Barrow, and won a cap for Great Britain (RL) while at Barrow in 1946 against New Zealand. Championship final appearances Joe Jones played in Wigan's 13–9 victory over Dewsbury in the Championship Final first-leg during the 1943–44 season at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 13 May 1944 ( Jim Sullivan played in the second-leg). County League appearances Joe Jones played in Wigan's victory in the Lancashire League during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Jones (baseball)
Joseph Carmack Jones (born December 13, 1941, in Lebanon, Tennessee) is an American retired professional baseball player, coach and manager. He spent all or parts of seven seasons in Major League Baseball as a coach for the Kansas City Royals (1987; 1992; 2005) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1997–2000).Joe Jones coach's page from A second baseman during his active career, Jones stood tall and weighed ; he threw and batted . He graduated from [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Jones (cyclist)
Joe Jones (born 30 September 1944) is a Canadian former cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and the team time trial events at the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve .... References External links * 1944 births Living people Canadian male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Canada Cyclists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Welsh emigrants to Canada {{Canada-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Jones (defensive End)
Joseph Willie "Turkey" Jones (born January 7, 1948) is a former American football defensive end who spent eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Cleveland Browns (1970–1973; 1975–1978), Philadelphia Eagles (1974–1975) and Washington Commanders, Washington Redskins (1979–1980). Turkey nickname Per Jones' daughter, Leone Jones Hopewell, he did earn his "Turkey" nickname just before Thanksgiving during his rookie season with the Browns in 1970. The veterans on the team pulled a prank on the rookies by sending them off to distant farms to get nonexistent "free domestic turkey, turkeys" for the holiday. Jones continued his futile search for hours, long after his fellow rookies had abandoned theirs. He fell for the same prank again the following year. The not-true story his nickname was because he bobbed his head like a turkey when he ran so some college teammates started calling him Turkey. By the end of his rookie season, he had worked his way into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Jones (tight End)
Joseph Jones (born June 26, 1962) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Indianapolis Colts. He also was a member of the Pittsburgh Gladiators in the Arena Football League (AFL). He played college football at Virginia Tech. Early years Jones attended Forest Hills High School, where he practiced football, basketball and track. He accepted a football scholarship from Virginia Tech. He began his college career as a backup tight end, playing mainly on special teams. As a sophomore, he had 3 receptions for 40 yards. As a senior, he became a starter at tight end, leading the team with 39 receptions for 452 yards and one touchdown. Professional career Dallas Cowboys Jones was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the 10th round (270th overall) of the 1985 NFL Draft. He was waived in August. Buffalo Bills On August 15, 1985, he was signed as a free agent by the Buffalo Bills. He was cut on August 19. San Francisco 49ers In 1986, he was signe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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