BillF

Non-specialist press coverage, even: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/20/jimmy-heath-jazz-saxophonist-for-miles-davis-dies-aged-93

Yes, Roditi and Greg were well paired in various 90s recordings. He seems to have been at career peak around the dates you give.

... and on this:

I must give that a listen!

Roditi was a superb trumpeter and seriously underappreciated IMHO. Saw him twice in the 1990s: at the Wigan Jazz Festival with his frequent partner Paquito D'Rivera in a phenomenally hot quintet with a Latin rhythm section (I came out saying it was like listening to the Adderleys, whom I'd heard 25 years earlier), and in the Gillespie United Nations Orchestra (lot of joshing with Diz who kept mispronouncing his name as Rodichi). Very sad to see him go.

You would probably find that the second album is your kind of music, that is if Stan Getz, Anita O'Day and Annie Ross are your kind of music.

Now playing:

You don't mean JAZZ FORUMS' do you? Or do you mean ORGANIS'S'IMO?

Singer Veronica Swift on these albums: Saxophonist Jeff Rupert on these albums:

Time to flip again! Now playing: I dig! The music too! A gas!

Fascinating stuff!

I also like these pix. I already have the shirt. All I need now is the hat!

A good summary and analysis of his style, if I may say so and I also like his playing a lot. Re "troubled individual", I hadn't heard about this, but now see that his Wikipedia entry says "he battled drug addiction for most of his life". Those were sad days for so many musicians!

Agreed. Now moved to