JONES, JONATHAN

JONES, JONATHAN (JO PAPA JO). Jazz drummer (7 October 1911 in Chicago, Illinois). He studied piano, trumpet, and saxophone as a child. His early professional experiences were with touring carnivals and shows on the Chautauqua circuit . During the late 1920s-mid 1930s he played with Ted Adams , then later played with Harold Brown's Brownskin Syncopators, Walter Page , Bennie Moten , and Lloyd Hunter's Serenaders, among others. He made his recording debut...