JONES, RICHARD MYKNEE

JONES, RICHARD MYKNEE. Jazz pianist (13 June 1892 in New Orleans; 8 December 1945 in Chicago, Illinois). He played alto horn in a brass band at the age of thirteen. He began playing professionally in 1908 in brothels of the Storyville district of New Orleans, Louisiana. Thereafter he led his own groups in various nightclubs and also played with others, among them, John Robichaux, Armand Piron , and Oscar (Papa) Celestin . In 1918 he settled in Chicago, Illinois, where he became...