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Mike Cuozzo
"Mike Cuozzo Was My Dad"
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In April, I posted on Mike Cuozzo, a superb, swinging saxophonist who recorded two swinging albums as a leader in 1955 and '56 and then stopped recording. Back in the spring, I called saxophonist Sol Schlinger, who told me that Cuozzo had owned a car dealership in New Jersey. And that was that—until several weeks ago, when I received an email from his son, Michael Cuozzo Jr., who offered a warm and informative portrait of his dad and sent along ...
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Mike Cuozzo: Lost Sax
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The name Mike Cuozzo won't ring a bell with most jazz fans. The tenor saxophonist's discography is slim—just four known recording sessions, including two leadership dates, in 1955 and 1956, when he was 30 years old. And that was it. He left the jazz scene to become a building contractor in Caldwell, N.J., a move likely made to pay the bills, especially if he had a family. Cuozzo (pronounced COO-zo) was born in Newark, N.J., in 1925. He began his ...
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