Jazz Articles about Jorge Nila

Jorge Nila: Tenor Time (tribute to the Tenor Masters)

by Chris Mosey
January 4, 2019

The four participants on this album all hail from Omaha, Nebraska. Not a town that springs readily to mind in the history of jazz. Although, as drummer Dana Murray, recalls: “In the ballroom days everyone came through--Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington--the list goes on." But it is the friendship and familiarity of Omaha's local scene that shines through here. Saxophonist Jorge Nila, the leader, who went to the same school as Murray, made full ...