Jazz Articles about Leroy Jones

Echoing the Angel Gabriel: Leroy Jones and his Signature Sound

by Taliya Hafiz
March 25, 2025

This story roots its preface in 2015 in JazzAscona at a press conference dedicated to jazz trumpeters and featuring a league of fantastic musicians: Wendell Brunious, John Michael Bradford, Kevin Louis and Shamarr Allen, who kindly shared their perceptions of the “trumpet as an instrument." “My trumpet is my girlfriend, I kiss her every day," Allen said with a smile back then. As Brunious mentioned, “I look for beauty when I play...I want the words of that song to come ...

Leroy Jones: A New Orleans State of Mind

by Trish Richardson
October 7, 2008

“I'm not sure but I think all music comes from New Orleans.“--Lee DorseyWhile New Orleans may not be as popular as some of her sisters to the North, her personality and charm are second to none. She is as diversified as the people who live within her boundaries. Though she is indelibly linked with the unwanted visits from her ill-mannered and tempestuous cousins Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ike; she has proven to herself and the world ...

Leroy Jones at The Living Room

by Ian Patterson
October 15, 2006

Leroy Jones at The Living Room Sheraton Grande, Bangkok September 28, 2006

The Living Room is an odd-looking place. It resembles the bridge on the Enterprise from Star Trek, with its circular form; the seating arrangements are not dissimilar either and then there is the big window, although instead of dark space and asteroid fields the visitor sees Bangkok's Sky-train whiz by. The Living Room beats the bridge on two scores; firstly, there is a ...