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Zwerin was spotted by Miles Davis at Minton's in Harlem, while sitting in with Art Blakey. The great man's approach is sometimes stated as "I like your sound", but Mike's hipper version was: "You keep pretty good time ... for a white cat". He was immediately drafted into the rehearsal band for what
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His father's death in 1960 threw Zwerin back into the world of business and he took over the presidency of the company. He combined this with jazz, and worked in John Lewis's big band
Orchestra USA, with whom he recorded and directed a small group. He later worked briefly with the pianist
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Zwerin moved to London in 1969 and then, in 1972, to Paris, which would be his home for the rest of his life. Nevertheless, he kept his hand in as a trombonist throughout the 1980s, working with his fellow expatriate Hal Singer and with the guitarist
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put it, "A few muddy recordings exist of radio broadcasts by the band during Zwerin's time in it, which gave him a lifelong reputation as a jazz musician lucky enough to have been at the cutting edge of a new movement."
267:(1983), he lampooned this period of his life, which lasted four years (1960–64), by turning the usual biographical note on its head: "In his spare time, Mike Zwerin is president of Dome Steel Corporation."
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while the regular trombonist Kai
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146:, and other journalistic and media positions while maintaining his musical career as well. Although he gained notoriety for his writing, he may be best known to the public for his work with
378:(1985). It included the story of the Kille Dillers and the Ghetto Swingers, two bands that played in concentration camps. He also translated the jazz writings of Boris Vian (
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was arrested onstage. Zwerin was charged with disturbing the peace, but charges against Zwerin and the other journalists were later dropped due to lack of evidence.
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within various jazz ensembles. He was active within the jazz and progressive jazz musical community as a
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Live at the
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musician and author. Zwerin as a musician played the
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