The Wall Street Journal profiles another local jazzman, the second in two weeks:
The 15-title catalog of Skirl Records, which will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a multi-artist concert Wednesday at the Gowanus venue Littlefield, doubles as a map of South Brooklyn's bustling jazz scene. Mainstays like multi-reedist Oscar Noriega, bassist Trevor Dunn, drummer Jim Black and trombonist Curtis Hasselbring are among more than a dozen principals clustered between Kensington, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens and Ft. Greene—a short subway hop apart. Since arriving from Boston in 1992, Mr. Speed has kept an apartment in a Windsor Terrace brownstone that has served as a way station for many of his friends, all of whom have recorded for the label.
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