(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...