This page: https://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2011/12/rifftide-papa-jo-jones/#.U4DTPl5H1FI
seems to infer that the phrase was coined by Whitney Balliett:
Maybe the late Whitney Balliett, deemed “the poet laureate of jazz,” said it best when he wrote that Jo Jones was “the man who played like the wind.” If Gene Krupa made the drums a solo instrument, Jo Jones made the drums a musical instrument.