It wasn’t all baseball at Fenway Park on Monday, April 12, 1982. The Boston Red Sox did play the Chicago White Sox to...
Sackbut Week, 76 Trombones, and Fenway Park
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One Time Only: Dom Turkowski
We passed the Ides of March this last week, and it’s a day to remember another one of the forgotten souls of Boston...
Blues for Bobby Ward
The illustrious Boston school of jazz drumming that flourished from about 1940 to 1990 stretches from Bobby Donaldson...
Dick Wetmore & Company at Danny’s Cafe
One of the few bright spots on the Boston scene in 1960 was Daniel Colucci’s club at 12 Haviland Street, a block off...
Fat Man Robinson: “There’s Life Here!”
Saxophonist and singer Paul “Fat Man” Robinson, a key figure on Boston’s postwar nightlife scene, was the city’s...
Teddy Kotick: A Career in Two Acts
The career of the nonpariel bassist Teddy Kotick divided into two parts. There was the New York Teddy of the 1950s. Of...
A Rite for All Souls
Almost 50 years ago, on Halloween night in 1971, the Mark Harvey Group played at the Old West Church in Boston. The...
Al Natale: Penthouse Tenant
Although trumpeter and bandleader Al Natale never called himself a jazz musician, I would be remiss if I did not...
Ron Gill: The Jazz Advocate
Ron Gill was a guy who thought you could never do too much for jazz. Gill, who died on April 16, 2020, at age 85, sang...