• soloists". Thad Jones was born in Pontiac, Michigan to Henry and Olivia Jones, a musical family of 10 (an older brother was pianist Hank Jones and a younger...
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  • The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra was a jazz big band formed by trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis in New York in 1965. The band performed...
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  • The Magnificent Thad Jones is an album by American jazz trumpeter Thad Jones recorded on July 14, 1956 and released on Blue Note later that year. The AllMusic...
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    York City in 1963. In 1966 in New York, he teamed up with Thad Jones to lead the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. The group started as informal jam sessions...
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  • Catholic bishop Thad Jaracz (born 1946), American basketball player Thaddeus Thad Jones (1923–1986), American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Thad Krasnesky (fl...
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  • The Fabulous Thad Jones is the debut album by American jazz trumpeter Thad Jones recorded in 1954 and originally released on Charles Mingus' Debut Records...
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  • This is the discography for the American jazz musician Elvin Jones. "Elvin Jones Catalog - album index", JazzDisco.org. Retrieved December 7, 2017. Jurek...
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    fruitful collaborations with trumpeter Donald Byrd and as a member of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band. Pepper Adams was born in Highland Park, Michigan,...
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  • Keepin' Up with the Joneses is an album by The Jones Brothers: trumpeter Thad, pianist Hank and drummer Elvin, along with bassist Eddie Jones, recorded for...
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    Vicksburg, Mississippi. His elder brothers were pianist Hank Jones and trumpeter Thad Jones, both highly regarded musicians. By age two, he said, drums...
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  • written in 1969 by the jazz trumpeter Thad Jones with lyrics added independently by Alec Wilder after hearing the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra perform the...
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    Canal. Thad Jones (1923–1986), American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Thad Lewis (born 1987), American National Football League quarterback Thad Luckinbill...
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    arrangers Neal Hefti and Sammy Nestico with featured musicians such as Thad Jones and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. Count Basie arrived in Kansas City, Missouri...
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  • Grill Quincy Jones – Gula Matari Duke Ellington – Duke Ellington - 70th Birthday Concert Don Ellis Big Band – Don Ellis at Fillmore Thad Jones and Mel Lewis...
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  • The Thad Jones Mel Lewis Quartet is a live album by the Thad Jones Mel Lewis Quartet recorded in 1977 in Miami and released on the Artists House label...
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  • Mad Thad is a Hardbop jazz album by Thad Jones recorded in 1957 for Period Records. Whisper Not (Benny Golson) – 5:35 Quiet Sip (Thad Jones) – 9:01 Ballad...
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    and The Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Orchestra. He also recorded with Charles Mingus, Andrew Hill, Jaki Byard, Players Association and Elvin Jones. After the...
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  • The Big Band Sound of Thad Jones/Mel Lewis featuring Miss Ruth Brown, also released as Fine Brown Frame, is a 1968 Solid State Records recording of vocalist...
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  • Johnson (clarinetist) (1925-2010) Isham Jones (1894–1956) Quincy Jones (born 1933) Thad Jones (1923–1986) (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra) (c.1965-1977)...
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    clubs and studios, including recording Detroit – New York Junction with Thad Jones in March. Later that month, he returned to recording, this time with Miles...
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  • Hours is an album by the Prestige All Stars nominally led by trumpeter Thad Jones recorded in 1957 and released on the Prestige label. The album was also...
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  • saxophonist John Gilmore, trumpeter Thad Jones, alto saxophonist Frank Strozier, bassist Butch Warren and drummer Elvin Jones. The Allmusic review by Scott...
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  • of Jerry Dodgion on alto flute, Peter Phillips on bass trombone, and Thad Jones on flugelhorn. Critic Nat Hentoff described the album as an "impressive...
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  • Newman, Frank Foster, Frank Wess, Thad Jones, Ernie Wilkins) and others (Milt Jackson, Coleman Hawkins, Putte Wickman). Jones quit music in 1962 and took a...
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  • Thad M. Jones (November 17, 1901 – January 24, 1972) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives...
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  • Mean What You Say is an album by the Thad Jones/Pepper Adams Quintet recorded in 1966 and released on the Milestone label. Scott Yanow of Allmusic called...
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  • by RCA Victor featuring performances by Rollins with Herbie Hancock, Thad Jones, Ron Carter, Bob Cranshaw and Roy McCurdy on several bebop tunes. "Now's...
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  • Joe Williams and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, the Jazz Orchestra is a 1966 big band jazz album recorded by Joe Williams with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra...
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    Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Ahmad Jamal, Hank Jones, Thad Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Paul Desmond, Joe Pass and Mel Lewis. Denise Roman...
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  • 2009. Most of the songs and arrangements are by Thad Jones, who founded the group as the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. "Willow Tree" and "St. Louis...
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