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In 1981, Jones sang at the
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Jones' sister, Barbara
Cassini, also a talented pianist, counts the sea as a lasting influence on his music: "So many of his forebears were seafarers, Cape Horners...the holidays in New Quay, when we were in the water all the time or sailing across it, and later, of course, the navy and the Cunard
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coast where his father, Islwyn Jones, had been born and brought up. Music was in the family: his mother, Lavinia (nÊe Bevan), was a pianist and his aunt, Isawel Jones, played the organ in
Tabernacle chapel in New Quay. She gave Jones piano lessons during his holidays in New Quay. It was as a
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in Wales. After another visit to New Quay to see Isawel, he returned to
America where he worked sporadically throughout 1983, including taking part in the Manassas Jazz Festival, when he played
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wrote in his obituary "A versatile, accomplished pianist, he was a master of the Harlem stride style of Fats Waller and a well-known interpreter of the piano music of Bix
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he was diagnosed with cancer of the larynx and flew to London to have his voice box removed, recuperating at
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in London but did not complete the course, preferring the informality of late night jazz sessions.
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for wartime service in the Far East. When the war ended he enrolled at
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