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Ronald Maxwell "Max" Jones (28 February 1917, London - 1 August 1993, Chichester) was a British Jazz author, radio host, and journalist. == Life and achievements == Together with his brother Cliff, Jones taught himself to play the saxophone, before the two of them founded a dance band in 1930. Named “Campus Club Dance Band” it was semi-professional and when it had been dissolved in 1935, Jones tried to establish himself as a professional musician, becoming a member of a combo led by trumpeter Johnny Claes, with musicians who played in the style of Coleman Hawkins. In 1942 and 1943, Jones worked for the BBC radio programme “Radio Rhythm Club”; and in 1942, together with authors Albert Mc Carthy and Charles Fox, he founded the magazine ''Jazz Music'',〔(obituary in ) ''The Independent'', 4 August 1993〕 which became meritorious as it set out "to reassert the pioneering role of the African-American, to emphasise the music’s social dimensions, and to attack the glossy commercialism of big-band swing".〔(the Jazz site )〕 Since 1944, Jones had had a full-time job writing features for the ''Melody Maker'' in the column “Collectors’ Corner”.〔(Floyd Levin, Benny Carter: ''Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians'' )〕 In the following years he gained more and more high recognition as a proven expert of New Orleans Jazz, swing, and mainstream jazz.〔 A collection of his articles on musicians such as Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, Billie Holiday, and Mary Lou Williams was published as a book entitled ''Talking Jazz'' in 1987. In 1971 Jones published a Louis Armstrong biography, ''Louis Armstrong Story'', together with John Chilton. Jones also wrote a number of liner notes, e.g. for the CD edition of the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band〔(Isthar.it )〕 and the Spirits of Rhythm.〔Vgl. Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley: ''Jazz Rough Guide'', Stuttgart 1999, S. 606〕 Jones was the first jazz musician to become a professional journalist and exclusively dealt with jazz in his publications.〔 He was a model and a mentor for a younger generation of rock music critics and authors. .〔John Shepherd: ''Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Vol. 1: Media, Industry and Society'', S. 305〕 Jones was married to Betty Salberg and had one son.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Max Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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