Jazz Articles about Dick Twardzik

Dick Twardzik Trio: Complete Recordings

by David Rickert
May 9, 2007

Dick Twardzik is one of the great “What Ifs in jazz. After a promising start backing the likes of saxophonists Charlie Parker and Serge Chaloff, showing a penchant for inventive originals and ingenious reworking of melodies, he succumbed to a drug overdose at the age of 24 while on tour with Chet Baker. He is one of several musicians who had yet to reach his full potential before succumbing to a drug addiction, and surely would have been recognized as ...