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Nick Travis: A New York Studio Jazzman
by Richard J Salvucci
It may well be that in the world of the Internet, no one is ever truly forgotten. That's obviously true of people commonly known as the great and the good." Yet even in the more obscure branches of human endeavor, the principle holds. Nowhere, more so, it seems, than in music, and even in ...
Shorty Rogers: Short Stops
by Richard J Salvucci
In the 1980s, trumpeter and Kenton alum Mike Vax put together a Supersax-type group called TRPTS. It released an album of harmonized trumpet classics, one of which was Short Stop." There are lots of great tunes including Night in Tunisia," Trumpet Blues and Cantabile," and Heckler's Hop." Oh yeah, one I never heard, Shorty Rogers' Short ...
Doug Mettome: A Brief Life in Bop
by Richard J Salvucci
Douglas (Doug) Voll Mettome, the son of Nels P Mettome and Leafy Dawn Mettome was born into a prosperous family on March 19, 1925 in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he died on February 17, 1964. He was one of two children (a younger sister attended Northwestern University). Doug's musical career began early. His ...