“…when you’re working with giants, you’ve got to improve…I’m still in school” Leo Nash Wright, alto saxophonist and flutist, was born in...

Damita Jo DeBlanc was known to her family as the kind of woman who’d say “‘Hot dog!’ and slap her thigh and everybody was ‘darlin’ and...

“I went in for a brief call-in and ended up being in the band for 20 years.” Leroy "Hog" Cooper (August 31, 1928 – January 15, 2009) was...