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Herbie Jones
Miami, United States
Herbie Jones is credited on 415 releases across 78 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1955–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
415
Pressings credited
78
Albums
8
Decades active
21
In collections
Biography
Herbie Jones (born Herbert Robert Jones) (March 23, 1926, Miami, Florida – March 19, 2001, New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter and arranger. Jones dropped out of college to move to New York, where he joined the Lucky Millinder band. In subsequent years he worked with Andy Kirk, Buddy Johnson, and Cab Calloway, and studied under Eddie Barefield. Jones spent several years as Duke Ellington's first trumpeter in the 1960s, and worked as an arranger and transcriber with Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Among his arrangements were "El Busto", "Cootie's Caravan", "The Prowling Cat", and "The Opener". After leaving Ellington, Jones became director of an alternative school in New York, and directed the Police Athletic League's bugle corps. He died as a result of complications from diabetes in March 2001.
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Credited work
415 releases · 78 albums · active 1955–2025
- Performance · 720
- Other credits · 22
- Production · 1
Studios: RCA Studio A · RCA Victor Studios, New York · RCA Studios, New York · Universal Recording Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Francis A. & Edward K.
1968
Ella At Duke's Place
1966
Second Sacred Concert
1970
The Popular Duke Ellington
1966
Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years
1997
Verve Jazz Masters 4
1994
Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges
1992
Jazz Masters Of The Sax
1983
Giants Of Jazz - Duke Ellington
1980
History Of Jazz
1978
Antibes Concert
1967
Concert In The Virgin Islands
1965
Ella Fitzgerald
1987
Frequent collaborators
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