Gary Hammon talks about Joe Brazil around the 16:45 mark.

During a panel discussion of A Love Supreme hosted by Bill T. Jones, bassist Reggie Workman told a story about Joe Brazil bringing a car...

Detroit saxophonist Phil Lasley talks about Joe Brazil at 18:25 on this podcast from Detroit Jazz Stage. http://castroller.com/podcasts/Detr...

"I had a rich environment, it was like a university without walls, I have to say that and we all looked and there are guys you don’t ...

Anders Svanoe published research of Sonny Red in The Annual Review of Jazz Studies in 2007. Like Sonny, Joe's family moved to Detroit ...

Detroit saxophonist Bennie Maupin talks about meeting John Coltrane at Joe Brazil's house. (Thanks to Chris Devito for sharing this info...

"Joe was a catalyst. He helped the scene."

Seattle Times photo Jerry Heldman played bass with Joe Brazil. His daughter reminisced on his passing. He set up a website about the clu...

I spoke with Felton Jones by phone. Felton (trumpet) and Eddie Chambliss (tenor) used to hit the afterhours sessions at Joe Brazil's bas...

John Miller was seven years old when he lived two doors down from Joe on Fleming Street. Last weekend at the Detroit Jazz Festival Talk Tent...

In an 2000 article in Northwest Asian Weekly, Bob Antolin talks about Joe Brazil. "At the University of Washington, he studied with J...

In a 2011 issue of International Examiner , Ken Kubota mentioned Joe Brazil. "Kubota initially started piano lessons in second grade ...

I was at the UW when Joe was teaching and attended many of his classes, even playing for a couple, although I wasn't enrolled in them. A...

In My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain , Aaron Dixon talks about Gary Hammon, Joe Brazil's student. "...