Jones, Wallace (Leon)
Jones, Wallace (Leon)
Jones, Wallace (Leon), jazz trumpeter; b. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 16, 1906; d. March 23, 1983. Cousin of bandleader/drummer Chick Webb. Jones played in Ike Dixon’s Harmony Birds (1928–29) and the Percy Glascoe Kit Kat Orch. (1930). He moved to N.Y. and played briefly with Chick Webb, then regularly with Willie Bryant in 1936-37. He was with Duke Ellington from March 1938 until March 1944. In September 1945, he played with Benny Carter in N.Y.; during the following year he worked in Snub Mosely’s Band, with John Kirby (early 1947). Left full-time music to become a mortician.
—John Chilton, Who’s Who of Jazz/Lewis Porter
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