Harold Jones and his Bossman Big Band Orchestra;  Special Guest singing sensastion Jackie Ryan !!!

There are many compliments you can give a musician like Harold Jones: musicality, taste, creativity, the ability to make everyone around you sound better. Harold Jones personifies all of those characteristics. But longevity is possibly the highest accolade one can give a musician, and Harold has that, too.

Jones played on one of the first jazz recordings to sell a million copies (Eddie Harris’ Exodus To Jazz), he helped create the initial fusion of jazz and world music in Paul Winter’s sextet, and when he took the gig playing drums in the Count Basie Orchestra for what was supposed to be two weeks, it lasted five years! Since then Jones has played with nearly all of the great jazz singers, including ten years each with Sarah Vaughan and Natalie Cole, five years with Ella Fitzgerald, and stints with Carmen McRae, Sammy Davis Jr., and Nancy Wilson. 

After first playing with Tony Bennett in 1968, Harold has spent the past nine years again supporting the living legend Bennett. It is Harold’s reputation of giving the great singers exactly what they need that has led to a recent must-read book: Harold Jones, the Singer’s Drummer.

Special Guest: Jackie Ryan "is one of the outstanding jazz vocalists of her generation...She is the thoroughbred vocal equivalent of the Triple Crown, rivaling the dexterous sass of Sarah Vaughan, the instinctive smarts of Carmen McRae and the scintillating verve of Diana Krall." - Christopher Loudon, Jazz Time

Marin Jazz presents Harold Jones & Jackie Ryan for this romantic weekend BIG Band Event on Feb 15th Sat at 2pm PST, please join us for this romantic fun getaway.

See what’s coming and join the party at Marin Jazz!