Jim Riley

Jim Riley: & Some Colorado Friends

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 2001

Although he was unaware of it before I wrote to ask for a copy of this CD, which I’d seen reviewed in Cadence magazine, saxophonist Jim Riley and I go back a long way together — to the early ’50s when I was a teen–age Jazz fan in Washingon, DC, and Jim was the youngest member of THE Orchestra, a spectacular big band comprised of DC–area musicians and fronted by Willis Conover, who later earned fame as the announcer for ...