91.5 Jazz and More

Post-war jazz was peppered with fraternal wonders. Among the many families with exceptional jazz siblings in the 1950s were the Montgomerys, the Garners, the Turrentines, the Heaths, the Adderleys, the Joneses (Hank, Thad and Elvin) and the Candolis. Jazz wasn’t genetic. In the decade after the end of World War II, music was one of the few ways up and out of crowded households and poverty…