Joe Sullivan

The long and convoluted dramatis personae of jazz is sprinkled with artists who were fated to bear identical names. This historic musical realm that gave the world multiple Bill Evanses, Joe Thomases, and Willie Smiths also produced two distinctly different individuals named Joe Sullivan. Chicago's Joe Sullivan (1906-1971) was a master stride pianist and cohort of old-school Windy City traditionalist Eddie Condon. The Canadian Joe Sullivan, a modern jazz trumpeter who perfected his art in the '90s and triumphed during the following decade as bandleader, arranger, recording art...