Blaze Fingers Episode 10: The Saxophone Prodigy
Saturday January 14, 1961: The home of Fats Bixby: 11 AM Fats Bixby: Blaze, I’ve written a new saxophone exercise for you to…
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Blaze Fingers Episode 9: A 24-Karat Gold-Plated Selmer Mark VI
Tuesday, January 10, 1961, 2 PM: Oakwood Trails Jazz Club, Chicago, Illinois. Fats Bixby: Kid, let me take a look at your horn.
Blaze Fingers Episode 7: Pivot Chords
Christmas 1960 was looking ever more bleak for the Fingers Family. Maurice Fingers Sr. sat in a jail cell on charges of the…
Blaze Fingers Episode 6: The Street Pharmacist
Thursday, September 15, 1960, 2 PM Dean Lightfoot was a career thug, and he was training his son Johnny to follow in his…
Blaze Fingers Episode 5: The Keys to the Kingdom
Blaze Fingers Episode 5: The Keys to the Kingdom by Rex Djere 2020 November 20 Maurice Fingers Sr.: Officer Adams, what’s this all…
Blaze Fingers Episode 4: Seeking Out the Truth
Sunday June 21, 1959. The Fingers Family is driving home from church: 12:30 PM Maurice Ellington Fingers Sr. was a spiritual man, but…