There wasn’t anything else like the Brass Menagerie in Boston in the late 1960s. And even though there were...
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Election Special: Wild About Harry
Let’s take a break from the insults and name calling of the 2016 presidential campaign to recall a lighter moment from...
Dr Gene DiStasio, the Boss Bone
With so many fine trombonists having been a part of the Boston scene—I came up with a list of 27 with reputations...
Ray Santisi’s Box of Tapes
When someone dies, we sometimes hear a tongue-in-cheek comment regarding the disposition of the departed’s worldly...
Don Stratton’s Boston Jazz Scene, 1949
Trumpeter, composer and educator Don Stratton, a true Yankee original, died at his home in Augusta, Maine, on April...
Super Tuesday Special: Dizzy for President
So it’s Super Tuesday and the electoral circus has come to Massachusetts, and this year it’s brought along even more...
June 26-29, 1981 at Kix: We Want Miles!
There are comebacks, and then there are comebacks. Thirty-four years ago, in June 1981, Miles Davis staged a memorable...
Stone Blues and Beyond: A Son of Roxbury Recognized
Roxbury-born trombonist and percussionist Daoud Haroon was recently named a 2014 Fellow by United States Artists...
May 30, 1971: Fire Closes Lennie’s-on-the-Turnpike
Just about all of the great jazz clubs described in The Boston Jazz Chronicles were inside the Boston city limits....