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Max Jones may refer to: *Max Jones (journalist) Ronald Maxwell Jones (28 February 1917, London – 2 August 1993, Chichester) was a British jazz author, radio host and journalist. Life and achievements Together with his brother Cliff, Jones taught himself to play the saxophone, before the tw ..., British journalist * Max Jones (ice hockey), American professional ice hockey forward {{hndis, Jones, Max ...
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Max Jones (journalist)
Ronald Maxwell Jones (28 February 1917, London – 2 August 1993, Chichester) was a British jazz author, radio host and journalist. Life and achievements Together with his brother Cliff, Jones taught himself to play the saxophone, before the two of them founded a dance band in 1930. Named "Campus Club Dance Band" it was semi-professional and when it was dissolved in 1935, Jones tried to establish himself as a professional musician, becoming a member of a combo led by trumpeter Johnny Claes, with musicians who played in the style of Coleman Hawkins. In 1942 and 1943, Jones worked for the BBC radio programme ''Radio Rhythm Club''; and in 1942, together with authors Albert McCarthy and Charles Fox, he founded the magazine ''Jazz Music'',Steve Voce"Obituary: Max Jones" ''The Independent'', 4 August 1993. which became meritorious as it set out "to reassert the pioneering role of the African-American, to emphasise the music’s social dimensions, and to attack the glossy commerciali ...
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