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The Parisian Jazz Chronicles
by Joel Roberts
The Parisian Jazz Chronicles: An Improvisational MemoirBy Mike Zwerin Yale University PressISBN: 0300108060240 pages2005 The Parisian Jazz Chronicles is an irreverent and highly revealing tour through the Parisian and European jazz scenes of the '80-90s in the company of musician/writer/hipster expatriate Mike Zwerin, who played trombone on Miles Davis' landmark Birth of the Cool sessions as a teenager and later became a respected jazz critic for the ...
read moreMike Zwerin, Jazz Critic and Author, is Dead at 79
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Michael Ricci
Mike Zwerin, a jazz trombonist who became a prominent jazz critic and author, died Friday in Paris after a long illness. He was 79. When he was 18, nervously sitting in with Art Blakeys group at Mintons Playhouse, in Harlem, Mr. Zwerin was noticed by the trumpeter Miles Davis, who complimented the young player and used him briefly in his nonet at the Royal Roost, a New York club. Mr. Zwerin later played with the big bands of Maynard Ferguson ...
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Mike Zwerin, Gone at 79
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Last summer, I had the privilege of presenting the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Jazz Journalists Association to Mike Zwerin, my successor in the chain of winners of that honor. Mike was unable to make the trip from his home in France and accepted in absentia. That missed opportunity meant that I will never have the pleasure of a personal meeting with a cherished colleague. Mike died early this morning in a Paris hospital at the age of 79, ...
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Jazz Critic Mike Zwerin, Miles Davis Protege, Dies at Age 79
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Michael Ricci
Mike Zwerin, a jazzman who got his first break jamming with Miles Davis a half-century ago, has died aged 79. Zwerin was a trombonist who became the Paris-based jazz critic for the International Herald Tribune and later for Bloomberg News. He died at 3 a.m. local time in a Paris hospital after a long illness, his family said. He was the author of the memoirs Close Enough for Jazz and The Parisian Jazz Chronicles among others. In the books, his ...
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taintradio.org Launches "Mike Zwerin's Shuffle in Paris"
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All About Jazz
"Mike Zwerin's Shuffle From Paris," a weekly two-hour (mostly jazz) program will debut at 2pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, January 28th. The program will repeat each Sunday night at midnight. Mike Zwerin was for many years the jazz writer for the Herald-Tribune in Paris and later for Bloomberg News. He is the author of Paris Jazz Chronicles, which was published by Yale University Press. He is also an accomplished trombonist who played in Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool" band as ...
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