Billy Jones

A 1975 album entitled Birds of the Sea by Billy Jones has become a treasured item among certain DJs and mixers keen on finding the ultimate funky break or sample. The album has fallen into a category known as Northern soul, the north in this case being Holland, where Jones was active on the music scene from the '60s. His ethnic background is African and the previously mentioned album, released on a Dutch subsidiary of Decca, is not the only recorded documentation of Jones. He is a performer whose performances and contacts took him into the Dutch avant-garde as well as the goud...