The Quiet One

Columbus music and culture

Rusty Bryant – America's Greatest Jazz, Vol II

By 1961, when Rusty Bryant’s America’s Greatest Jazz, Vol II was released, Dot Records' experiment with jazz was all but over. Dot had...

Jeanette Williams - To You

Columbus lost a treasure and true legend of the music community when Jeanette Williams passed away in March. One of a small handful of...

Rusty Bryant Plays Jazz

The artistic leap from Rusty Bryant’s first album, 1956’s America’s Greatest Jazz, to his second, 1958’s Rusty Bryant Plays Jazz, is...

Chuz Alfred - Jazz Young Blood

After looking at a hot off the press release from Twenty One Pilots in my last post, let’s pivot back over 65 years to one of the...

Nancy Wilson - Like In Love

In June 1959, singer Nancy Wilson hopped on a train (back when you could do that sort of thing in Columbus) and went to New York City to...

America's Greatest Jazz

In 1956, Elvis had the number 1 song with Heartbreak Hotel and Columbus was a very different place from today. Saxophonist Rusty Bryant...

The Quiet One

I’ve never really known what my ideal pursuit would be. If I ever had any aspiration at all as a kid, I guess being a writer for Rolling...

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