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Wim Kegel
Dave Schnitter and Edgar van Asselt: Penpals
by Samuel Chell
In the late 1970's the Newport Jazz Festival programmed a Carnegie Hall concert featuring the groups of both Art Blakey and Horace Silver along with some all-star alumni guests. The impression of that concert that lingers with me to this day is the passionate and fiery if not show-stopping performance of Blakey's tenor man, David Schnitter. Had the title Little Giant" not already been bestowed upon Johnny Griffin to distinguish him from long, tall" Dexter Gordon, it might just as ...
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