Wayne Shorter Mr Misterioso keeps it informal: "The music is unconditional . . . I don't want formality to dominate the living celebration of our eternity"
Profiles: Big Jay McNeely bends over backwards to keep the people feeling good (and signs our winnable Willoughby books); saxophonist Mark Lockheart bends the spirit of Duke Ellington to a new purposeJazz Samba Fifty years after it opened a new avenue for jazz expression, Ken Avis revisits the album that nobody minds hearing in the supermarket
Dan Kildare The Jamaican pianist shot his wife and himself near Oxford Circus in 1920 but not before he had made string-band recordings that long predated similar events in the US
On The Other Hand Dave Gelly reflects on jazz blighted by tardy licensing reform, killed off by Paul Morley and born again in Wardell Gray
Jazz Information Bob Weir digs the detail: Goon Show players, jazz in Iceland, the missing Art Pepper and more
Obituaries Jim Godbolt; George Gruntz; Fontella Bass; Ravi Shankar
Record reviews Over 40 new recordings assessed, plus reviews of a host of reissues.
Profiles: Big Jay McNeely bends over backwards to keep the people feeling good (and signs our winnable Willoughby books); saxophonist Mark Lockheart bends the spirit of Duke Ellington to a new purposeJazz Samba Fifty years after it opened a new avenue for jazz expression, Ken Avis revisits the album that nobody minds hearing in the supermarket
Dan Kildare The Jamaican pianist shot his wife and himself near Oxford Circus in 1920 but not before he had made string-band recordings that long predated similar events in the US
On The Other Hand Dave Gelly reflects on jazz blighted by tardy licensing reform, killed off by Paul Morley and born again in Wardell Gray
Jazz Information Bob Weir digs the detail: Goon Show players, jazz in Iceland, the missing Art Pepper and more
Obituaries Jim Godbolt; George Gruntz; Fontella Bass; Ravi Shankar
Record reviews Over 40 new recordings assessed, plus reviews of a host of reissues.
