Jazz Articles

The Young Razzcals: Jazz Project, Volume 2

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 1998

If you think I'm going to say anything unkind or even negative about Albuquerque, New Mexico's Young Razzcals, you'd better check your head to make sure all the marbles are intact. Sure, they don't swing quite as hard or as consistently as Basie - yet - but there's a good reason for that; the average age of this extraordinary group of Jazz Festival veterans is 13, and that's not in dog years either.The Razzcals were born in 1992 when some ...