Jazz Articles about Cava Menzies

Cava Menzies and Nick Phillips: Their Moment

by Bob Kenselaar
February 13, 2014

Every once in a while, a couple of jazz musicians who've never played with each other before find themselves together on a bandstand, and something special really clicks. They just jell musically as if they've been playing together all their lives. Pianist Cava Menzies and trumpeter Nick Phillips experienced such an encounter not long ago, when Phillips got a call to sub on a regular local gig that Menzies had in Berkley, California. “From that gig, Nick and ...