{"product_id":"elvin-jones_remembrance_2025_war","title":"Remembrance","description":"Reissue of a 1978 album by The Elvin Jones Jazz Machine, featuring the star drummer alongside saxophonists Pat LaBarbera and Michael Stuart, guitarist Roland Prince, and bassist Andy McCloud. \"Elvin is the beat of life itself ... When I hear Elvin's music I hear the future.\" That is what guitarist Carlos Santana said in 2004 when he heard that drummer Elvin Jones had died. The rock star's comments signal Jones's importance. Born in Pontiac, Michigan in 1927, Jones's playing lifted the drums out of the rhythm section and into the front line. He could control a group's pulse while peppering the music with melodic accents, creating solos that were both powerful and sensitive. For his MPS recording in February 1978, he brought his Elvin Jones Jazz Machine, a quintet with the somewhat unusual lineup of two saxophones, guitar, bass, and drums. The group went on to be one of the most popular in jazz in the 1990s. The youngest of the three Jones brothers, trumpeter Thad and pianist Hank being the other two, Elvin became famous as the drummer of the seminal John Coltrane Quartet. For five years, Jones played with the saxophone giant, creating music that revolutionized jazz. He left the group after Coltrane added a second drummer and the music took a new direction. For a time, Elvin worked with a number of jazz greats, then formed his own \"Jazz Machine.\" German record producer and writer Joachim-Ernst Berendt commented: \"There are many drummers today whose hands are faster than their heads. With Elvin, head and hand, body and soul are a single entity.\"","brand":"Elvin Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57520727392600,"sku":null,"price":20250117.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/elvin-jones_remembrance_2025_war","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}