Jazz Insights with Dr. Gordon Vernick

Howard McGhee

This Jazz Insights features Howard McGhee, a relatively obscure trumpet player by today’s standards. However, back in the 1940s and throughout the 1960s he was a very well respected jazz trumpet player, composer and arranger. He was a very much on the scene at the inception of bebop playing with the likes of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Fats Navarro.

Jazz Insights - Howard McGhee Part 1
Jazz Insights - Howard McGhee - Part 2

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