Profiles blues singer Etta James; gypsy-guitar guru Dave Kelbie; the non-dancing, non-singing Matana Roberts
Joe Harriott II Simon Spillett argues that neglect was generic, not racist, on the British scene of the early 1970s
Cutting it with Claude Saxman Richard Cox tells Gordon Jack of life on the road with Bob Brookmeyer, Gene Quill and Brew Moore in Thornhill's 1952 band
Things we liked Roger Farbey revisits the jazz-drenched 1968 album that bassist Jack Bruce didn't want to define him as a jazz bass player
Plus Michael Garrick, Paul Motian, Billy Bang, Clark Terry, Gilad Atzmon, Marshall Allen and yard upon yard of record review
See January 2012 in full