Dwayne Mack wrote about the black community in Spokane and the impact of soldiers at Geiger Air Field where Joe Brazil served.

I found Joe listed as a Bluebird Music Alumni in the second Bluebird Reunion booklet. 

I found a picture of Joe in the Bluebird Reunion booklet from 1995. In the picture is drummer Bert Myrick who often played with Joe in the...

Seattle P-I photo Yesterday I listened to a 1967 tape of Stokely Carmichael addressing a full gymnasium of supporters at Garfield High S...

A tape in the Joe Brazil collection labeled "Thad Jones at the West End" contains an announcer saying, "How about a hand for ...

Joe Brazil first joined the Detroit Federation of Musicians, Local 5, on August 17, 1955. There must have been a few time lapses, because th...

Seattle Musicians's pin on Pinterest.

When the Seattle Musicians Local was organizing old files, they came across one for Joe Brazil and contacted me because they found this blog...

The Black Academy of Music presented many workshops with name musicians: 1972       McCoy Tyner, Eddie Harris, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancoc...

My research turned up a list of grant funding in support of the Black Academy of Music: 1973 Seattle Arts Commission? 1973 Pacific Nort...

Sept. 4, 1972 Dear Black Academy of Music, Wardo Enterprises, the manufacturers of music Books and Musical Supplies and Instruments ar...

From Seattle Municipal Archives

Photo from the Seattle Times 10/5/67. Joe Brazil - saxophone, Lee Anderson - piano, Rufus Reid - bass, Bobby Tuttle - drums. The Checkmate w...

Marc Robinson's article on the Black Student Union for the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project mentions Joe's role in the...

July 11, 1968 p. 43 "A $25,000 program for teaching jazz, rock and folk music in the Seattle ghetto has been set up by the Seattle ...

Joe Brazil playing with McCoy Tyner at the University of Washington. Sonny Fortune on percussion, Alphonse Mouzon on drums.

At Garfield High School.