Jazz Articles about Dennis Bell

Dennis Bell Jazz NY: Then & Now

by Michael P. Gladstone
December 17, 2003

This album is subtitled A Jazz Retrospect of New York City's High School of Music & Art. Every member of this quartet graduated from these two schools in the late 1950s or mid 1990s, having since individually pursued careers in music and education. The collective resume for these players is enough to raise a few musical eyebrows per names and venues (e.g. Peter Chivily was the Stan Kenton bassist during the period when he recorded West Side Story in the ...