Jazz Articles about Dan Harkins

Introducing Trombonist Dan Harkins

by Sanford Josephson
September 12, 2024

Trombonist Urbie Green, who died in 2018 at the age of 92, was part of Woody Herman's Thundering Herd in the 1950s and won DownBeat's International Critics' Award for “New Star" in 1954. While revered among his colleagues, Green is not exactly a household name among the jazz listening public. But 22-year-old trombonist Dan Harkins lists him as one of his three jazz heroes--along with the giants, J.J. Johnson and Curtis Fuller. “I really like Urbie Green a ...