Helen Jones Woods

Woods who was born in Meridian.

Helen jones woods. Laurence Clifton Jones founder of the most historic Piney Woods boarding school in Mississippi. Helen Jones Woods in the mid-1940s photo. Helen Woods succumbed to the COVD-19 virus this past weekend.

Helen Jones Woods who played trombone with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm a history-making all-female big band that toured widely during World War II died of COVID-19 on July 25 in. Pioneering jazz band member Helen Jones Woods daughter of Piney Woods School founder Laurence Clifton Jones recently died of COVID-19 disease at age 96. Helen Jones Woods was an African-American jazz musician who toured the country including the Jim Crow South in the 1930s and 40s.

We are saddened by the loss of Helen Jones Woods mother of media legend and Urban One founder Cathy Hughes. Helen Jones Woods who toured with a pioneering all-female multiracial big band at a young age and was fired from the Omaha Symphony for being Black died at age 96 from the coronavirus. Woods was the daughter of Dr.

Laurence Clifton Jones founder of the historic Piney Woods boarding school in Mississippi and the mother of media mogul Cathy Hughes who founded Urban. Helen Jones Woods a founding member of the first integrated all-women swing orchestra The International Sweethearts of Rhythm died of COVID-19 at the age of 96 on July 25. She spent her childhood on the campus of the Piney Woods School which was founded in 1909 by her.

August 5 2020 Helen Jones Woods a founding member of the first integrated all-women swing orchestra The International Sweethearts of Rhythm died of COVID-19 at the age of 96 on July 25thWoods was the daughter of Dr. Helen Jones Woods who played trombone with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm a history-making all-female big band that toured widely during World War II died of COVID-19 on July 25 in Sarasota Fla. In fact Woods along with Willie Mae Wong saxophone Sadye Pankey Moore trumpet and Johnny Mae Rice piano formed the nucleus of the band.

Her daughter Cathy Hughes founder and chairperson of the broadcast media company Urban One confirmed the details of her death to NPR. And the mother of media mogul Cathy Hughes who founded Urban One the. Helen Elizabeth Jones Woods October 9 or November 14 1923 July 25 2020 was a jazz and swing trombone player most renowned for her performances with the International Sweethearts of RhythmShe was inducted into the Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame in 2007.