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She was born in Topeka, Kansas.
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Betty Jones
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Jones"s father was George Arthur Bigby, a cornetist and leader of a brass band. She then returned to Los Angeles to play with Roy Milton through 1942, then joined Luke Jones"s trio, with whom she recorded. She recorded frequently in the 1950s and worked at the Hotel Sorrento in Seattle, Washington, for seven years.
In the 1960s and 1970s she did United Service Organizations tours in East Asia and toured Australia and Mexico in addition to regular dates in nightclubs on Sunset Boulevard.
She toured Sweden and England in the 1980s, and continued performing into the 1990s. A compilation of her recordings, The Complete Recordings 1947-1954, was issued in 2005.
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