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An excellent hard bop trumpeter, Carmell Jones would probably have been much better-known today if he had not moved to Europe in the mid-'60s at the height of his career. After military service and two years at the University of Kansas, Carmell Jones led a band in Kansas City (1959). The next year, he moved to Los Angeles where he recorded a couple of albums as a leader for Pacific Jazz and made records with <a href="spotify:artist:2UuKUaomk3bZ0nHM3Y3FdW">Bud Shank</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1jcPgyzUoFrMSI5jloL3LD">Harold Land</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:57uB1nsVzhNMAj2xZBG0BW">Curtis Amy</a>, and most significantly <a href="spotify:artist:2gSkBqzo1VXaWnAyjhoYk7">Gerald Wilson's Orchestra</a> (1961-1963). Jones toured with <a href="spotify:artist:5ZATfKurLqflrBhv2FLht5">Horace Silver</a> for a year (1964-1965), recording the original version of "Song for My Father" with <a href="spotify:artist:5ZATfKurLqflrBhv2FLht5">Silver</a> before moving to Berlin. Although quite active in Europe, Carmell Jones was largely forgotten by the time he moved back to Kansas City in 1980; however, a 1982 album for Revelation helped remind a few listeners how good he still was. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi
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