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04-30-2004, 09:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | Elvin Jones Updates
It's still a rumor at this point, I got an e-mail from a buddy that quoted some postings by a couple of folks who caught a recent set at Yoshi's. Anybody else hear anything? HEY JAZZBO, that's your neck of the woods, right?
All I can find googling is the same web stuff that Charles forwarded to me, so if anybody has any info, please post and let me know.
Sad, sad day if it's true.
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04-30-2004, 09:46 AM
| | | | we were suppose to work together and it was canned...back in Febuary. |
04-30-2004, 09:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | This is from All About Jazz site Elvin
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04-30-2004, 09:59 AM
| | | | i suspedcted something but was never told directly. |
04-30-2004, 10:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | i hope this isn't true, he's one of my fav's 
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04-30-2004, 10:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: New Albany, MS | | | I heard the same thing. What a drag.
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05-05-2004, 08:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | A "semi Official" good news update.... Elvin OK
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05-07-2004, 04:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: SE Wisconsin | | | Elvin Jones, R.I.P.
Snipped this from JazzCorner:
> Subject: [DRUMS Info.] Sad News
(Elvin)
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>Dear all,
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>I heard a really sad news from Hagi-san.
>As you may know, our drum giant Elvin Jones has
passed away...
>Please pray for the repose of his soul.
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>Sincerely,
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>Tomohiro Watanabe/YCJ-AP
Sad news if true. Not sure of the verasity of the source. Can anyone confirm?
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05-09-2004, 08:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | I dunno, the "official" word of a few days ago seems to make things sound not so dire. There have been a couple of other websites that have posted "death notices" from cats just posting, I don't think that it should be trusted (or spread around for that matter) cause it's just cats flapping their gums.
I kind of get the feeling that if and when, there'll be no question.
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05-10-2004, 02:15 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Peter King, the well-known UK Alto player was at my local Jazz club on Friday and dedicated his encore to Elvin and played a tune written by him - he mentioned how he had played with him and that he was very ill... it was a moving speech...but I mentioned to friends in the audience that it might not be as bad as it seems...... 
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05-14-2004, 11:44 AM
| | | | Bill Dickens called a friend of mine this morning and told him that Elvin is gone... |
05-14-2004, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by DonZ Bill Dickens called a friend of mine this morning and told him that Elvin is gone... | I'd still be careful. Bill may have heard it from a friend who heard from another friend who read something online that's a total rumor.
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05-14-2004, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua I'd still be careful. Bill may have heard it from a friend who heard from another friend who read something online that's a total rumor. | I agree completely...just thought I'd pass that bit on. |
05-15-2004, 02:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | This same thing happened when Joe Henderson died. Everyone was counting him out for about a year before he actually passed. In the absence of an official announcement from his wife or management, it's probably more respectful to wait rather than speculate. The rumors are hard to control once they get out there and it can't be pleasant for his family. |
05-18-2004, 10:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Norwell, MA | | | NEW YORK (AP) - Elvin Ray Jones, a renowned jazz drummer and member of John Coltrane's quartet who also played alongside Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, died Tuesday. He was 76. Jones died of heart failure in an Englewood, N.J., hospital, said his wife of 38 years, Keiko Jones.
"He's happy. No more suffering," said Keiko Jones. "He's been fighting for so long."
Jones, called by Life magazine "the world's greatest rhythmic drummer," was born in Pontiac, Mich., one of ten children. He had two musician brothers: Hank, a jazz pianist, and Thad, a trumpet and flugelhorn player.
Jones entered the Detroit jazz scene in the late 1940s after touring as a stagehand with the Army Special Services show Operation Happiness.
After a brief gig at the Detroit club Grand River Street, he went to work at another club, backing up such jazz greats as Parker, Davis and Wardell Grey.
Jones came to New York in 1955 for an unsuccessful audition for the Benny Goodman band but stayed in the city, joining Charlie Mingus' band and making a record called "J is Jazz." In 1960, he became a member of John Coltrane's quartet.
Jones, with his rhythmic, innovative style, became one of jazz's most famous drummers under Coltrane. He can be heard on Coltrane's "A love Supreme" and "Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard."
After leaving the Coltrane quartet, Jones briefly played with Duke Ellington and formed the Elvin Jones' Jazz Machine. He put out several solo albums and continued to tour, including last month in Oakland, Calif., Keiko Jones said.
Besides his wife, Jones is survived by a son and a daughter |
05-19-2004, 12:27 AM
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05-19-2004, 05:02 AM
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05-19-2004, 06:36 AM
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At least him and Trane can now get back to work now, I guess. |
05-19-2004, 09:06 AM
| | | | I heard last night on the Philly Jazz program that he died "a few days ago." |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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