Results for "Jimmy Maxwell"

Jimmy Maxwell

Born: January 9, 1917

Concerto for Cootie. The Life and Times of Cootie Williams

by Richard J Salvucci
December 4, 2025

Cootie. The Life and Times of Cootie Williams Steven C. Bowie 443 Pages ISBN: #9781496859440 University Press of Mississippi 2025 Benny Goodman, who had employed Harry James and Ziggy Elman in his nonpareil 1937 trumpet section, preferred trumpeter Cootie Williams to them, admiring his “unlimited power." Williams had come ...

National Jazz Ensemble: Featuring Gerry Mulligan

by Jack Bowers
February 10, 2016

Any new CD whose cover proclaims “Featuring Gerry Mulligan" is guaranteed to turn heads, raise antennae and whip up interest. This one, on which Mulligan performs with the then-three-year-old National Jazz Ensemble, was recorded February 19, 1977, in a sold-out auditorium at the New School in New York City. In his liner notes, trumpeter David Berger ...