Drummer Willie Jones III would probably rather have people paying attention to his stick, brush, and pedal work, but first a beat must be struck concerning the odd lineage of this particular name in jazz. It represents an example of performers who actually have no family relation to each other, but make use of Roman numerals so that they don't get confused with each other. Or at least this drummer, whose career began picking up steam in the '90s, saw fit to do so. The man who was logically Willie Jones II never saw fit to make use of that form of identification, sometimes using Willie Jones Jr. but often just getting mixed up with the first Willie Jones in this lineage. While "Junior" usually indicates that "Senior" is the father, these two musicians were actually born less than a decade apart.
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