Welsh Pearl, by Dill Jones & friends

Welsh Pearl

by Dill Jones & friends

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1.	Dill Jones - There Are No Flowers in Tiger Bay 04:31	info	buy track
2.	Celtic Twilight 06:38	info	buy track
3.	Jay Walk 03:51	info	buy track
4.	Welsh Pearl 04:53	info	buy track
5.	Someone Remembered 03:50	info	buy track
6.	Blues Alone 05:09	info	buy track
7.	New Quay News 05:05	info	buy track
8.	Meet Me at Condons 03:19	info	buy track
9.	Annabelle 04:34	info	buy track
10.	Flashes 02:51	info	buy track
11.	In a Mist 04:12	info	buy track
12.	Candlelights 05:30	info	buy track
13.	In the Dark 03:33	info	buy track
14.	Davenport Blues 03:33	info	buy track
15.	I'd Climb the Highest Mountain 03:12	info	buy track
16.	From Monday On 02:52	info	buy track
17.	Anything Goes 03:39	info	buy track
18.	Wherever Theres Love 04:17	info	buy track
19.	Little Rock Getaway 04:43	info	buy track
20.	Singin in the Rain 04:41	info	buy track
21.	Shim 06:11	info	buy track
22.	My Fate Is in Your Hands 03:48	info	buy track
23.	Sweet Sue 06:03	info	buy track
24.	I Found a New Baby 05:23	info	buy track
25.	In A Mist 04:01	info	buy track
26.	African Ripples 04:27	info	buy track
27.	I Want to Be Happy 05:40	info	buy track
28.	Morning Air 02:06	info	buy track
29.	Deck the Halls with the Jingle Bell Boogie 04:55	info	buy track
30.	God Rest That Merry Monk 05:18	info	buy track
31.	Candlelights (Live) 05:31	info	buy track
32.	Tag Along 04:08	info	buy track
33.	Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head 04:52	info	buy track
34.	Louisiana 07:20	info	buy track
35.	Honeysuckle Rose 04:55	info	buy track
36.	Montreaux 03:22	info	buy track
37.	Lester Leaps In 05:31	info	buy track
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39.	I'll Be Seeing You 04:41	info	buy track
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42.	Oliver's Twist 07:08	info	buy track
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44.	Down By the Riverside 05:06	info	buy track
45.	The Best Thing In Life Are Free 04:37	info	buy track
46.	Poll Winners 05:41	info	buy track
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48.	May-Zee 03:25	info	buy track
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50.	Icefall 07:21	info	buy track
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55.	I'm Beginning to See the Light 05:29	info	buy track
56.	A Ghost of a Chance 07:21	info	buy track
57.	Presque Cubain 03:38	info	buy track
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60.	Sign of the Lion 04:52		buy track
61.	Little Rock Getaway 04:41		buy track
62.	Opus Caprice 03:52		buy track
63.	In a Mist 02:38		buy track
64.	Yesterdays 02:42		buy track
65.	Rufus 02:37		buy track
66.	Rams Blues 03:58		buy track
67.	Easy 02:25		buy track
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69.	Jordu 02:52		buy track
70.	Deed I Do 03:15		buy track
71.	Vipers Drag 04:53		buy track
72.	Moonglow 03:08		buy track
73.	Blues & Boogiee 07:34	info	buy track
74.	Cocktails For Two 06:15	info	buy track
75.	Salute to the Bandbox 13:28	info	buy track
76.	Perdido 05:12	info	buy track
77.	Night in Tunisia 10:08	info	buy track
78.	Birks Works 09:09	info	buy track
79.	Caravan 09:59	info	buy track
80.	Vipers Drag 05:36	info	buy track

about

Dill Jones was born on 19 August 1923 at Sunny Side, Newcastle Emlyn, the son of John Islwyn Paton Jones, a bank manager, and his wife Lavinia (née Bevan). He inherited musical gifts from both sides, his father being a good singer and his mother a gifted pianist. After attending Llandovery College where he heard jazz recordings for the first time, he worked in a bank while playing the piano at local concerts in the evenings. During service in the Navy between 1942 and 1946 he was given the opportunity of performing on the Armed Forces' network. In 1946 he enrolled at Trinity College of Music London to study piano and organ and the following year joined a band led by the drummer Carlo Krahmer, where he played alongside Duncan White and Humphrey Lyttleton. He played at the first Jazz Festival held at Nice in 1949, and subsequently in Vic Lewis's band and on board the liner Queen Mary, which enabled him to visit jazz clubs in New York. He also played with several other bands in London and presented the pioneering BBC programme 'Jazz Club'. From 1958 he led his own London-based trio.

In 1961 he emigrated to the USA and spent the rest of his life in New York, playing with a number of celebrated bands. Between 1969 and 1973 he was a member of the 'JPJ Quartet' with Budd Johnson, Oliver Jackson and Bill Pemberton, then from 1974 onwards he concentrated on performing solo. He returned to Wales in 1978 to perform at the Wales Jazz Festival in Cardiff. Throughout his career he was able to vary his style and had no difficulty in playing in bands of many different kinds while still excelling as a soloist. He was equally at home in Fats Waller's 'Harlem stride' and the music of Bix Beiderbecke.

He was to be invested as a member of the Gorsedd at the National Eisteddfod at Lampeter in 1984, but died before then, in New York on 22 June 1984. A memorial service was held at the church of St Peter, Lexington Avenue, on 29 June. A collection of his recordings, 'Davenport Blues', was issued in 2004...

This album features Dill as a leader and as a sideman to some icons of the British jazz scene....Willie T Smith, Bill Pemberton, Budd Johnson, Oliver Jackson, Kenny Baker, George Chisholm, Tony Coe, Bruce Turner, Eddie Taylor & Lennie Bush, Jo Hunter, Jimmy Deuchar, Keith Christie, Don Rendell, Jimmy Skidmore, Ralph Dollimore, Johnny Hawksworth, Allan Ganley, Sammy Strokes, Phil Seaman, Bert Courtley, Hank Shaw, Ken Wray, Vic Ash, Tubby Hayes, Jimmy Skidmore, Lennie Bush & Bill Eyden

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released February 28, 2021

Album credits...
Willie T Smith, Bill Pemberton, Budd Johnson, Oliver Jackson, Kenny Baker, George Chisholm, Tony Coe, Bruce Turner, Eddie Taylor & Lennie Bush, Jo Hunter, Jimmy Deuchar, Keith Christie, Don Rendell, Jimmy Skidmore, Ralph Dollimore, Johnny Hawksworth, Allan Ganley, Sammy Strokes, Phil Seaman, Bert Courtley, Hank Shaw, Ken Wray, Vic Ash, Tubby Hayes, Jimmy Skidmore, Lennie Bush & Bill Eyden

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