The great pianist has passed.
Jones was the subject of my first full-length feature in JazzTimes in 2004. Toward the end of the piece I quote him as saying, “I’m just going to keep going until I get it right.” I should have also included his next thought, which I’ll paraphrase: “Although in jazz, there really is no ‘right.’ It’s like that old song ‘Fools Rush In’: ‘Fools rush in, where wise men never go/but wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?'”
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