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Big Walter Horton Blues Trail Marker, Horn Lake, Mississippi April 6 was the bluesman Walter Horton’s birthday. When I first read of him, his birth year was given as 1918,...
Steve Kuhn I spoke with Steve Kuhn in 2004. The pianist had just released the album, Promises Kept, which fulfilled his goal of recording a program of original compositions...
Jackie McLean Jackie McLean, jazz legend and patron saint of the Hartford jazz community, was the subject of the 1979 documentary, “Jackie McLean on Mars.” I attended...
Scott Mullett When you look up names beginning M-U-L-L in jazz indexes, Gerry Mulligan (and sometimes Moon Mullins) is about all you get. But for Central and Western New Englanders,...