JONES, CLARENCE

JONES, CLARENCE. Songwriter (15 August 1889 in Wilmington, Ohio; 1 June 1949 in New York, New York). He first studied piano with his mother, a music teacher, then later at the Conservatory of Music and with Sueger Young in Cincinnati, Ohio. He also studied with Albino Garni, Louis Adler, and Charles Singer, among others. He began his professional career as a nightclub pianist in Cincinnati. During the years 1914-32 he was active as a pianist/arranger and conductor in Chicago,...