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HOWARD KADISON: Sunday nights, I’d sometimes go with Davern to Ratner’s Dairy Restaurant on SecondAvenue. The waiters were noted for their
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Bobby, listening to Vic Dickenson at Childs Paramount, October 1952 Bobby Hackett remains one of my musical heroes, and I cherish his recordings, the
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Billy, at work / at play, at one of Joe Boughton’s Conneaut Lake jazz weekends. When I was compiling yesterday’s post — a conversation with
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By day a tax accountant and perhaps a financial advisor, by night a deep jazz enthusiast, concert producer, record producer, singer and kazoo
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Wingy Manone isn’t well-remembered today, but he was a singular personality. There were more powerful trumpet players, more polished singers,
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The Manassas Jazz Festival, 1969: those names! The video captures a completely spur-of-the-moment session, arranged at a few minutes’ notice by
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The great jazz trumpet players all — and deservedly so — have their fan clubs (and sometimes Facebook groups): Louis, Bix, Bobby, Bunny and three
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I’ve known and admired the drummer and thoughtful man Kevin Dorn for fifteen years and more. I could see Kevin in a jazz club, lifting the rhythm
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In the years that I was able to see and hear him live (1972-2006), Kenny Davern had unmistakable and well-earned star power, and on the sessions
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The Management requests that patrons silence their cell phones, kindly not rattle their programs, unwrap cough drops or candy while the music is in
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Buzzy Drootin was a superb jazz drummer, hardly remembered today except by the few who know their history and listen deeply. He became a jazz
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One moral of this story, for me, is that the treasure-box exists, and wonderfully kind people are willing to allow us a peek inside. A jazz fan /
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Days gone by: December 1946, Wilber, Dick Wellstood, Johnny Glasel, Charlie Trager, Eddie Phyfe. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb. Robert Sage