Ashley Alexander

Ian Knox: Filming Pat Martino's World

by Victor L. Schermer
November 4, 2008

1. Martino Reflects on Martino Unstrung 2. Filming Pat Martino's World 3. The Neuropsychology of Pat Martino 4. Review of Martino Unstrung

When the rare combination of a serious film director, a neuropsychologist and a legendary jazz musician join together to make a movie about a catastrophic series of events in the musician's life, the result has the potential to be electrifying. That is how the film, Martino Unstrung engages the viewer.The stories, ...

Ashley Alexander Big Band

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 6, 2013

In August 1988, trombonist and educator Ashley Alexander went for a walk in the woods at a jazz camp in Saskatchewan, Canada and never returned. When camp officials searched for him, they found Alexander's body nearby. The 52-year-old music professor at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, Calif. reportedly had a history of heart trouble. While in Los Angeles seven years earlier, Alexander and his big band recorded Secret Love for AM-PM Records, a venture of producer Albert Marx's. The ...
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