The Jazz Passengers were founded in 1987 by Saxophonist Roy Nathanson and Trombonist Curtis Fowlkes. The two musicians met in the band of the Big Apple Circus and toured extensively together in John Lurie's seminal band The Lounge Lizards. They found strong affinity in their Brooklyn roots, their affection for hard bop, comedy and eccentric currents in modern American music. In l989 Bob Blumenthal wrote in the Boston Globe, "The seven piece Passengers often suggest a perverse mainstrean band, a hard-bop group as imagined by Frank Zappa.
These are videos from concerts where Jazz Passengers played, so they may be of other bands that played the concert as well.
Phoenix Festival 1996 Jul 18 - 21, 1996 Stratford-upon-Avon, England, United Kingdom Added by Mark Sanderson Credit: Darren Wilshaw
