Wednesday, July 18, 2012

UK: Jazz Journal Magazine: July 2012 issue Summary


Joe Temperley Brian Morton talks to one of Lochgelly's best-known exports, back in the UK this summer with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and reflecting on Carney, Humph and Duke and on Wynton Marsalis's supposed conservatism

Vijay Iyer They say maths and music are complementary but ivory-tinkler Vijay Iyer has completely reconstructed the architecture of the piano trio. Is it still swing, but not as we knew it? Interview by Mark Gilbert

Profiles Steve Brown, Scott Hamilton drummer and first-call rhythm man for visiting mainstreamers; Enrico Tommaso, trumpeter, and son and nephew of Harry Gold sidemen; Yuriy Galkin, bassist and composer bringing Russian virtuosity to the London scene

Still Clinging to the Wreckage Steve Voce rediscovers Maynard Ferguson's 1960s British triumphs and interviews Wally Fawkes

Books Dick Cary; Tom Lord; Good Bait; Joined At The Hip; Harlem Jazz Adventures; Tracking Jazz – The Ulster Way; Bob Wilber

Record reviews In full, in brief, in summary: over 150 recent issues covered.
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