Ozzie Cadena

As a longtime staff producer for Savoy Records, Ozzie Cadena guided the fledgling careers of future jazz immortals including McCoy Tyner, Cal Tjader, Bill Evans, Donald Byrd and Cannonball Adderley. Born September 26, 1924 in Oklahoma City, Cadena was raised in Newark, New Jersey--as a child he shined shoes to fund weekly pilgrimages to Harlem, where he soaked in the local music, and over time he ...more