OBITUARY: Mike Zwerin, Jazz Critic and Author, is Dead at 79

Mike Zwerin, a jazz trombonist who became a prominent jazz critic and author, died Friday in Paris after a long illness. He was 79. When he was 18, nervously sitting in with Art Blakeys group at Mintons Playhouse, in Harlem, Mr. Zwerin was noticed by the trumpeter Miles Davis, who complimented the young player and used him briefly in his nonet at the Royal Roost, a New York club...

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