J.J. Johnson News

Third Stream, an attempt to meld aspects of jazz and European classical and world musics, as a term may have gone away, but that can't be said for the musical movement of that name that flourished at the mid-point of the 20th Century.

Brett Sroka is a native of Lexington, Massachusetts and began playing the trombone at age ten.

THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz.

THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz.

THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz.

THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz.

THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz.

"If the sum of a jazz artist is his musical innovation and integrity, then Glover has reached his pinnacle in this astounding CD" - Chuck Workman, NUVO Newsweekly, from his review of Politico Frank Glover's new Owl Studios CD, Politico features the award-winning jazz clarinetist/composer in quartet, orchestra and string ensemble contexts.