Jonah and The Wail
1999, 30 minutes

Jazz trumpet player, Jonah Jones, played with some of the greatest swing bands and jazz innovators of the 20th century, from Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway to Dizzy Gellespie, Frank Sinatra, and more. In this film, Jones shares his indelible memories from his beginnings as a sideman on a Mississippi riverboat to his rise as a popular band leader.