For many years Bob Jones worked alongside George Wein producing the Newport Folk Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival. A founding producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Jones helped establish the Grand Parade du Jazz in Nice (aka the Nice Jazz Festival). In addition to working on major festivals, for a time he was road manger to Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and many more illustrious names.
In his book Myself Among Others (co-written with Nate Chinen, Da Capo Press), George Wein said of Bob Jones: Bob would soon become an invaluable asset - not only as a member of the folk festival staff, but for the next forty years, an indispensable member of the hierarchy of Festival Productions, Incorporated. Russell
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