The name Mike Cuozzo won't ring a bell with most jazz fans. The tenor saxophonist's discography is slim—just four known recording sessions, including two leadership dates, in 1955 and 1956 when he was 30 years old. And that was it. He left the jazz scene to become a building contractor in Caldwell, N.J., a move that likely came with the need to pay the …
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