Trumpeter Joe Gordon was only 35 when he died in 1963, and he was in and out of the limelight during his too-brief...
The Joe Gordon Story, Part 1: Boston
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Thelonious Monk
Mar 13, 1950: “The High Priest of Bebop” at the Hi-Hat
Thelonious Monk first worked in Boston with Coleman Hawkins at the Savoy, in March 1944. Six years later he returned...
April 27, 1959: Monk in Jeopardy
Thelonious Monk was supposed to be at Storyville on April 27, but instead he ended up at Grafton State Hospital. April...
March 1944: With Coleman Hawkins at the Savoy Cafe
Sometimes Boston had it good as a jazz town. Take March 1944, for instance, when the king of the tenor saxophonists,...