“I said no, then he says, ‘Charlie asked me if we were going to play with you? We’ve auditioned all those guys, chose you to play on the record – I don’t think we’re now gonna go choose someone else’. “One night I went down to the studio, and met Keith, who asked if I’d seen Charlie,” he said.
Jones had laid down some tracks during the initial sessions in Ireland in the fall of 1993, but it wasn’t until he was called into help put some finishing touches in Los Angeles a few months later that he learned he had the job.
A protege of Miles Davis who also played on Sting’s The Dream of the Blue Turtles album, it was Jones’ jazz background that reportedly appealed to vocalist Mick Jagger and drummer Charlie Watts. The record was the first Stones album with new bassist Darryl Jones, who had been hired that March after an extensive search. But rather than wallowing in Wyman’s departure, the shake-up helped them turn in their strongest studio effort in more than a decade, Voodoo Lounge, which was released on July 3, 1994. Not long after the release of their 1991 live album Flashpoint, original bassist Bill Wyman exited the band, permanently trimming the Stones lineup down to a quartet. The early ’90s were a transformative time for the Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones: When Stones Became a Quartet on ‘Voodoo Lounge’(1994)
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