On April 16, 2021, 22 of the advocates, activists and altruists from across the U.S. who the Jazz Journalists Association hailed as Jazz Heroes joined a Zoom town hall produced by Bret “JazzVideoGuy” Primack. Here is what 2021 Jazz Hero Wendell Harrison from Detroit, Michigan had to say.
After a decade mostly in New York City and on the road, sharing bandstands and jam spaces with everyone from Sonny Rollins to Grant Green, Sun Ra to Hank Crawford, Wendell Harrison, late in his twenties around 1970, flopped back to Detroit, to his mothers house. He thought it would be a quick, catch-your-breath layover.
