Results for "Mike Cuozzo"

Mike Cuozzo

"Mike Cuozzo Was My Dad"

September 16, 2014

In April, I posted on Mike Cuozzo, a superb, swinging saxophonist who recorded two swinging albums as a leader in 1955 and '56 and then stopped recording. Back in the spring, I called saxophonist Sol Schlinger, who told me that Cuozzo had owned a car dealership in New Jersey. And that was that—until several weeks ago, ...

Mike Cuozzo: Lost Sax

April 29, 2014

The name Mike Cuozzo won't ring a bell with most jazz fans. The tenor saxophonist's discography is slim—just four known recording sessions, including two leadership dates, in 1955 and 1956, when he was 30 years old. And that was it. He left the jazz scene to become a building contractor in Caldwell, N.J., a move likely ...