Carmell Jones (July 19, 1936 – November 7, 1996) was an American jazz trumpet player. Jones was born in Kansas City. He is best known for his work with Horace Silver, appearing in the album Song for My Father. He also recorded for Pacific Jazz from 1961 to 1963. In 1965 he moved to Germany where he lived for 15 years. He returned to the USA and died in Kansas City. In this time he worked with the SFB-Bigband (Sender Freies Berlin) under Paul Kuhn (1968 to 1980). There he worked with musicians as Milo Pavlovic, Herb Geller, Leo Wright and Eugen Cicero.

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