Live Jazz: The Mike Barone Big Band at Vitello’s

By Tony Gieske The eminent Mike Barone sat in the trombone section during a big band career with fellow trombonist Sy Zentner, leader of a Tommy Dorsey ghost band, and in Louis Bellson’s orchestra. After gigging for Gerald Wilson, he formed his own big band, playing on the rickety stage of Donte’s during its 1960s… Read More Live Jazz: The Mike Barone Big Band at Vitello’s

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Live Jazz: Snooky Young and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra at the Playboy Jazz Festival

By Tony Gieske The senior legend of jazz on the Playboy Jazz Festival’s revolving stage was Snooky Young, who is 91. He learned to play trumpet when he was 6 or 7 from a man who’d been with McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, started touring after World War I with the Young Snappy Six, a family group,… Read More Live Jazz: Snooky Young and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra at the Playboy Jazz Festival

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Live Jazz: The Mike Barone Big Band at Vitello’s

Live Jazz: Snooky Young and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra at the Playboy Jazz Festival