Upon completion of the project in January of 2017, Engelhardt emailed Stephen Enos at Cuyahoga Community College to investigate the possibility of recording the music at the new studio at TRI-C.

That accomplished, Engelhardt put together an ensemble that would allow him to hear the music he’d written. Thus was born, with the help of his friend and colleague Stephen Enos, the 15-piece Madd for ...

Everything Dameron touched had one thing in common, says Paul Combs, author of Dameronia: The Life and Work of Tadd Dameron . "A penchant for lyricism," Combs says.

Dexter Gordon, the preëminent tenor saxophonist of the bebop era, spoke of the composer and arranger Tadd Dameron as the romanticist of that often frenetic period; lyrical pieces ...

Dameron made complex music with little formal education. He was born in Cleveland on Feb. 21, 1917, and began playing piano at the age of 4.