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Charles Chen: The Long Way Home

by Jack Bowers
July 26, 2026

The Long Way Home is a fascinating album, not so much for the music alone--even though that is first-class--but for the lengthy interviews with the Charles Chen quartet's bassist and drummer, 98-year-old Bill Crow and 91-year-old Steve Little, respectively, who still anchor a regular weekly gig at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City. Crow and Little, each of whom has played and recorded with a veritable who's who of jazz luminaries, talk informally about their early influences, ...