[Dixielandjazz] Jonah Jones open

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Jonah was amazing, though during his second career his records received lukewarm reviews in the British jazz magazines, Jazz Monthly and Jazz Journal, from reviewers yearning to hear the magnificent open tone remembered from earlier recordings. His 1946 recordings with colleagues from Cab Calloway's band are even over the top euphoric,  like a grand celebration of the end of the war.
He certainly took out the mute when he recorded in France, in 1978, with J.C. Heard, Major Holley and the wonderful Andre Persiany on piano. Jonah even does a bit of singing, with blues-shouting.  Much fun was had by all. 
There's even an "I'm Confessin" entirely free of Armstrongisms (other than the inevitable debt). Real thing without imitation. Maybe a hint of  Red Allen .  
Of course the same French Black and Blue company did also record Sonny Thompson playing not what he had had to do to make a living, but stride piano of a sort at home on this site. 


       
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