1. Isham Edgar Jones was an American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.
11 Facts About Isham Jones
1. 2.
Isham Jones's father, Richard Isham Jones, was a violinist.
3.
The family moved to Saginaw, Michigan, where Isham Jones grew up and started his first ensemble for church concerts.
4.
Isham Jones performed at the Green Mill Gardens, then began playing at Fred Mann's Rainbo Gardens.
5.
The Isham Jones band made a series of popular gramophone records for Brunswick throughout the 1920s.
6.
Isham Jones led one of the most popular dance bands in the 1920s and 1930s.
7.
From 1929 to 1932, his Brunswick recordings became even more sophisticated with offbeat arrangements by Gordon Jenkins and others; Isham Jones was his own arranger early on, but cultivated others.
Related searches
Gordon Jenkins 8.
Isham Jones stayed with Victor until July 1934, when he signed with Decca.
9.
In 1931, Isham Jones performed at the Elitch Gardens Trocadero ballroom.
10.
Isham Jones moved to Hollywood, Florida in 1955, and died there of cancer in 1956.
11.
Isham Jones was the leader of one of America's most popular dance bands in the first half of the 20th century, between the two World Wars.