Bobby Jones - “Peggy’s Blue Skylight“ - Charles Mingus, 1972

This clip is from The Jazz Set, a weekly television program that aired on PBS in the early ’70s. Bobby Jones (October 30, 1928, Louisville, Kentucky - March 6, 1980, Munich) was an American jazz saxophonist. Jones played drums as a child and started on clarinet at age 8; his father encouraged him to explore jazz. He studied with Simeon Bellison, Joe Allard, Charlie Parker, and George Russell. He played with Ray McKinley from 1949 into the mid-1950s, and then with Hal McIntyre before rejoining McKinley lat
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