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August 24 - 31, 2010  Ischia (Island off of Napoli) Performing with Allan Harris ___________________________________ Saturday Sept. 4, 2010 The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Performing with The Dale Powers Band At the Council Oak Restaurant 7PM - 11P __________________________________ Sunday Sept. 5, 2010 Miami Beach, FL Private performance __________________________________ Wednesday Sept. 8, 2010 The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Performing with The Dale Powers Band At the Council Oak Restaurant 7PM - 11P __________________________________ Thursday Sept. 15, 2010 The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Performing with The Dale Powers Band At the Council Oak Restaurant 7PM - 11P __________________________________ Friday Sept. 17, 2010 Jazz on the Palm/Downtown West Palm Waterfront West Palm Bch., FL 8PM - 10PM The Jesse Jones Jr. Quartet Special Guest: Jazz Vocalist, Yvonne Brown ______________________________________ Friday Sept. 18,...

I wanted to let you all know about another album I'm on which is coming out this month. My good friend Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock is releasing his first CD, and I am featured quite prominently on all the tracks. I know this is not exactly the genre of music that you usally associate me with, but I think the album is produced quite nicely and...

(the following article appeared in the June 2009 issue of Jazz and Blues Florida, Florida's online guide to Jazz and Blues. You can download the whole publication from their web site) Winning Spins by Bob Weinstock  JESSE JONES JR. NEVER HAD A chance to meet Cannonball Adderley, but the legendary alto saxophonist enormously influenced the Miami native. In fact, Jones, now 65, even coerced his younger brother, Melton, to pick up the trumpet so they could emulate Cannon and his younger brother, Nat, one of the premier hardbop frontlines of the 1950s and ’60s. So it’s fitting that Jones’ new recording, the...

The tour started on May 21, 2007 In Ekaterinburg, Russia, I performed at The Tchaikovsky Sveeybusk Music College with a great rhythm section that really rocked everyone in the auditorium. I also got the chance, with the help of an interpreter, to speak to about 60 music student at the college.