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Bill Crow Quartet "from Birdland To Broadway" at The Falcon
Courtesy of Sally Lynch | Posted on September 23, 2017
Where
The Falcon
1348 Rte 9w
Marlboro, NY
Map
845-236-7970
When
Sun, September 24, 2017
7:00 pm
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About
This rare opportunity to hear veteran bassist Bill Crow as a leader first came about in 1995 to serve as "musical accompaniment" to the Japanese translation of his autobiography, "From Birdland to Broadway".
Crow has played a bewildering array of instruments during his career, and is best known as a bassist - also a trumpeter, saxophonist, trombonist, and drummer. Jazz historians align the start of his career in the '50s, when Crow transformed himself from a drummer in dance bands entertaining the posh folks to a jazz bassist. On bass, he gigged and recorded with Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Al Haig and Marian McPartland. ...