
New Jersey native Joe Russo came out west to attend CU Denver…except he never made it to class. “I was supposed to start school,” he says. “Yeah, that was the plan. I moved out there. And within a week, it was like, ‘See you, Denver.’” Instead, the drummer joined a band of cutting-edge Boulder jazz and rock musicians who called themselves Fat Mama.He put off college for a semester, but that semester break turned into decades. “Now I'm a 47-year-old father of two living in New Jersey. So I'm very...