Randy Jones

Randall Hodges Jones (January 23, 1944 – June 13, 2016) was a British-born American jazz drummer.

Biography Born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, (now Berkshire), Jones was a versatile musician capable of driving a big band, but could also play quite well with smaller units. He started playing professionally when he was 16, touring Germany with an English rock and roll group. In between, he backed up rock and pop artists in television variety shows, while performing on stage or recording in studio.

Jones moved to the United States in 1972 and based in New York City.

In 1980, Jones was invited to join the Dave Brubeck Quartet - replacing drummer Charles J. Thorton "Butch Miles," Jr., beginning an association which lasted until the death of Brubeck in 2012. In this period, Jones toured with the quartet throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan, appearing with them on stage and numerous TV shows, while recording several albums for labels as Concord, EMI and Telarc. Some of his most significant records with the quartet includes Tritonis (1980), Paper Moon (1981), So What's New? (1998), The Crossing (2001), Park_Avenue_South (2003) and London Flat, London Sharp (2005), among others.

Jones died in 2016 at the Calvary Hospital in the Bronx at the age of 72, following heart failure.