La Jones And The Blues Messengers Jumpin At Shadows

Album: Jumpin at Shadows, LA Jones says the blues bit when he was 12 or 13, growing up in Woodbury, Connecticut, and they clearly havent loosed their grip in the decades since. For Jones, recognized as pioneer of a lefthanded blues guitar style that blends Texas jump swing with West Coast and 1950s Chicago Blues, his life in music traces back to the opening of a certain coffeehouse in his 2, 000person hometown. Some jazz musicians from New York moved up and opened it and right away it became a music hub for the region, drawing bands from New York, New Haven, Boston, and Rhode Island, he recalled. And thats where I was first exposed to blues and jazz. It was part of a big blues revival going on. BB King was the first, followed quickly by Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and tons of others in the fertile Northeast blues scene. I knew the first time I heard it that playing the blues was what I wanted to do with my life Dons Tunes is about the music. Its ab