Jazz Musician of the Day: Philly Joe Jones
All About Jazz is celebrating Philly Joe Jones' birthday today!
Philly Joe Jones was born with the name Joseph Rudolph Jones in the city of Philadelphia on July 15, 1923. His mother, a piano teacher taught him the basics in music. In his formative years he also studied the drums with drummers the likes of Cozy Cole and Charles Wilcoxon, receiving valuable advise from Art Blakey and a then younger Max Roach. He established himself as “Philly Joe" Jones, from the name of the city of his birth... Read more.
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