Died On This Date (April 2, 2010) Mike Zwerin / Jazz Musician & Critic

Mike Zwerin
May 18, 1930 – April 2, 2010

Mike Zwerin was a respected jazz trombonist and long time music critic.  As a musician, he is perhaps best remembered for his years playing with Miles Davis in his Birth of the Cool band.  As a jazz reviewer, Zwerin graced the pages of Rolling Stone, Down Beat, Bloomberg News and the Village Voice, where he was the European editor from 1964 to 1971.  Mike Zwerin was 79 when he died on April 2, 2010.  He had been ill for some time.