Jazz Articles

Jerry Jerome: And His All-Stars Live!

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 1999

This concert date by tenor saxophonist Jerry Jerome and his all–star sextet was recorded in May ’98, roughly sixty years after Jerome joined Benny Goodman’s celebrated dance band. That’s no misprint — the number sixty is correct. Six–oh. In fact, the robust and quick–witted Jerome was a month shy of his 86th birthday when he and his colleagues treated the audience in Boca Raton, Florida, to an engaging program of swing–based Jazz from the good old days. In between numbers, ...