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Elvin (Ray) Jones at Club Continental, 1956
Elvin (Ray) Jones at Club Continental, 1956

Elvin Jones

American musician
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Elvin Ray Jones
Born:
September 9, 1927, Pontiac, Michigan, U.S.
Died:
May 18, 2004, Englewood, New Jersey (aged 76)
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Elvin Jones (born September 9, 1927, Pontiac, Michigan, U.S.—died May 18, 2004, Englewood, New Jersey) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader who established a forceful polyrhythmic approach to the traps set, combining different metres played independently by the hands and feet into a propulsive flow of irregularly shifting accents. Jones was mostly self-taught, though he came of a musical family that included siblings Hank and Thad, jazz pianist and trumpeter, respectively. Jones played drums in school and army bands before beginning his professional career in Detroit in 1949. In 1956 he moved to New York City, where he performed ...(100 of 228 words)

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