West Coast jazz legend and treasured elder statesman of the Los Angeles music community, cornetist Bobby Bradford leads a special project paying tribute to baseball hero Jackie Robinson, credited with breaking the sport’s “color line” when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Bradford’s septet features a who’s who of SoCal musical luminaries in a suite of music that swings and swirls, evoking both the power and poignancy of Robinson’s revolutionary career.

Bobby Bradford, cornet, lyrics
Vinny Golia, alto and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet
Chuck Manning, tenor saxophone
William Roper, tuba, euphonium, spoken word, vocals
Don Preston, piano, gong
Henry Franklin, bass
Tina Raymond, drums