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Helen Elizabeth Jones Woods (October 9 or November 14, 1923 – July 25, 2020) was an American jazz and swing trombone player renowned for her performances with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.
Oct 6, 2007 · Helen Jones Woods was a trombonist and a member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, one of the first racially integrated and all-female bands in the US. She also worked as a nurse and a mother of media mogul Cathy Hughes.
Oct 24, 2020 · Helen Jones Woods, who died of COVID-19, was a member of a pioneering all-female instrumental group that played the Apollo and toured occupied Germany. Photograph from...
Helen Jones Woods was an African-American jazz musician who toured the country, including the Jim Crow South, in the 1930s and ’40s. This could be the start of a familiar story of...
Aug 5, 2020 · 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...
Helen Jones Woods obituary. Trombone player for the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, the mixed-race big band hailed as ‘the first Freedom Riders’. Wednesday September 02 2020, 5.00pm, The...
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Aug 5, 2020 · Helen Jones Woods was a member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an all-female and interracial big band that toured during World War II. She later became a nurse and social worker, and shared her story in a 2011 Smithsonian panel.
