Jazz Articles about John Cocuzzi

John Cocuzzi: Swingin' and Burnin'

by Dave Nathan
July 1, 2000

John Cocuzzi is a versatile, talented multi-instrumentalist jazz musician who with some other very talented musicians, stretch out for an entertaining 60 minutes plus of solid, straight ahead jazz music on this very good album, Swingin' and Burnin'. A Washington, D.C. native, Cocuzzi gained an appreciation of jazz at an early age listening to his record collection and to his father who was a percussionist with the U.S. Marine Band. Initially studying piano and then drums, after hearing Lionel Hampton, ...