Jazz Articles about Curt Miller

The Las Vegas Boneheads: Sixty and Still Cookin'

by Jack Bowers
April 29, 2023

There aren't many albums a listener might care to revisit again immediately after an initial spin. This is one of them. The Las Vegas Boneheads, a trombone-and-rhythm nonet formed by Abe Nole in 1962, marked their sixtieth(!) anniversary by recording Sixty and Still Cookin', an album that more than lives up to its name while presenting a master class in how contemporary jazz trombone should be played, individually and collectively. There's never a dull or wasted moment ...