Jazz Articles about Michael Anthony

First Take Trio: Recollections

by Jack Bowers
June 19, 2014

When Michael Anthony left home in the late 1950s for the bright lights of Hollywood, one of the resident artists who took him under his wing was fellow guitarist Howard Roberts, already established as one of the film and television industry's top studio musicians as well as an esteemed jazz virtuoso whose work with the Chico Hamilton Quintet and other groups led to his earning a DownBeat magazine New Star Award in 1955. Roberts “took me on as a student," ...