Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins

Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins makes a superior impression with his goony beatnik humor, but also had a more serious side as a loyal friend of jazz since the early '50s. No less an authority than Rudy Van Gelder, who seems to have recorded half the great jazz albums ever made, has fondly recalled the Collins broadcasts from this period on New York City's WNEW, and not just because he liked the texture of ...more