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

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...

Chamber Music America and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers have for the second time selected the Steve Griggs En...

Check out my article in the Seattle Weekly http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/960901-129/the-night-that-john-coltrane-played

Boxley's in North Bend will be hosting a Jubilee for Joe Brazil in commemoration of Joe's passing on August 6, 2008. Come listen t...

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

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

This is Joe Brazil's house in Detroit. His neighbor told me that the musicians would enter and exit from the door on the side that led ...

"As the Music Historian he would wish for us all to study our history, listen to music and to support local musicians." - Virgi...

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

Grateful for the attentive audience and passionate performance at Jack Straw on January 14. It is a joy to share the story of Joe Brazil w...

I visited Brazil's hometown of Detroit, looking for his ghost. I wasn't really sure what I would find. I hoped to stitch together a ...

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...

Wadie Earvin shared a photo of his tee shirt from the Black Academy of Music.