Apr 23, 2024 9:07 PM
Celebrated Jazz Producer, Historian Michael Cuscuna Dies at 75
It is not easy to bid farewell to a best friend, knowing that it’s a final goodbye. Michael Cuscuna, who succumbed to…
Cuscuna played a singular role in the world of jazz as a producer of new jazz, R&B and rock recordings; as co-founder of a leading reissue record label; as a historian, journalist and DJ; and as the man who singlehandedly kept the Blue Note label on life support.
Apr 23, 2024 9:07 PM
It is not easy to bid farewell to a best friend, knowing that it’s a final goodbye. Michael Cuscuna, who succumbed to…
“No matter what you produce or do in your life, the thing you’ll be remembered for is rescuing all that Blue Note material,” Woody Shaw once said of Michael Cuscuna, and Cuscuna is fine with that.
Jan 3, 2024 11:24 AM
Once upon a time, a tiny handful of early jazz critics wrote about rare old jazz records like priests talking about the…
