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Joe Gordon Story Part 1 | Joe Gordon Story Part 2 In early spring 1958, Joe Gordon abruptly left Boston for...

Joe Gordon replaced Clifford Brown in Art Blakey’s pre-Messengers group in early 1954. That band, with alto...

Trumpeter Joe Gordon was only 35 when he died in 1963, and he was in and out of the limelight during his too-brief...

Thelonious Monk first worked in Boston with Coleman Hawkins at the Savoy, in March 1944. Six years later he returned...

In late January 1958, after what seemed like an interminable wait, Roulette Records released Life Is a Many Splendored...

I dedicated a chapter of The Boston Jazz Chronicles to Boston’s two late 1940s big bands, the “white contingent” of...