Hard driving rhythms in ‘Side Man’

Published April 2, 2012 4:00am ET



“Side Man,” at 1st Stage, is a well-written play about the world of New York’s jazz musicians in the 1950s through the 1980s. More specifically, it’s about trumpet players and the world that collapsed around them as Elvis and a new kind of music moved in.

 

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