Remembering 1998

Beans Bowles and his baritone sax with the Ed Nucilli big band during the Michigan Jazz Fest in July.

Andrew Speight teaches some basics about rhythm to a young bassist at one of SEMJA's Clinics at the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival.

Houston Person and his tenor sax at the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival on Labor Day weekend.

The Bodo Ensemble at the EdgeFest. Michael Unruh (bass clarinet), Andrew Bishop (alto sax), Janet Cramer (drums) and Glenn Holmes (bass). The location was Ann Arbor's Gypsy Café.

Joe McPhee (tenor sax) and Paul Plimley (piano) at the Edge Fest. Their performance at the Kerrytown Concert House was the high point of the festival.

Tyrone Brown and his electric bass at the EdgeFest in October. Brown was part of the Odean Pope trio and its performance at the Kerrytown Concert House.

The Phil Lasley quartet playing Jazz on A Midsummer's Night at the Scarab Club in Detroit in August. Buddy Budson (piano), Don Mayberry (bass), Lasley (alto sax) and Bert Myrick (drum)

photographs by Lars Björn