Vanguard Jazz playing here in homage to our Oatts music heritage
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, April 8, 2015 – When jazz saxophone legend Dick Oatts was here in 2006 to receive his hometown’s highest honor, the “Bell Tower of Fame Award,” he stood on the stage, looked at familiar old buildings around the courthouse square, and then smiled. “Maybe we ought to turn one of…