* Jonah Jones; Jazz Trumpeter Led Quartet

Jonah Jones, 90, a master of the jazz trumpet who played with some noted swing bands and sold a million copies of his versions of “On the Street Where You Live” and “Baubles, Bangles and Beads.” Born in Louisville, Ky., Jones played alto horn in local bands before switching to trumpet as a youth. His first professional job was on a Mississippi riverboat. He played with many of the popular groups of the time, including those led by Horace Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford and Lil Armstrong, the wife of Louis Armstrong, a prominent bandleader in her own right. In that band he was billed as King Louis II and played Armstrong favorites such as “Cornet Chop Suey” and “Beau Koo Jack.” Jones worked with Cab Calloway’s orchestra and the Cab Jivers from 1941-52. By 1955, the trumpeter had formed his own group, a quartet, and found success at the Embers, a legendary jazz club in New York. Jones altered his playing for this gig, taking on a quieter, far more subtle style. The group played show tunes, standards and traditional jazz and became extremely successful. Its initial one-night-a-week gig stretched into a five-year contract for 20 weeks annually. The group made several hit records for Capitol from 1957-63. Jones won a Grammy Award in 1959 for the album “I Dig Chicks.” He toured and recorded through the 1980s, finally retiring in 1993. On Sunday in Manhattan.