JONES, J. WESLEY

JONES, J. WESLEY. Church choir director (8 September 1884 in Nashville, Tennessee; 11 February 1961 in Chicago, Illinois). He obtained his musical education at the Tennessee Industrial School and at Walden College (B.A., 1905) in Nashville, Tennessee. Some time before 1917 he settled in Chicago, Illinois, where he became active as a church organist and choir director, first at Scott Chapel, then at Progressive Baptist Church, and beginning in 1920 at the Metropolitan Community Church. He studied...