Mike Zwerin obituary

A jazz trombonist, journalist and author, he was given his big break by Miles DavisMike Zwerin, who has died in Paris aged 79 after a long illness, liked to say that he had had "three lives". The first, and dearest to him, was as a jazz trombonist. Mike, the only son of well-off New York parents, played a two-week stint with a Miles Davis band in 1949, when he was 19 and still a student at the University of Miami. In 1966, he toured the Soviet Union with Earl Hines, and at one time or another pl...

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