Michel Camilo Dave Jones
seeks fresh insights into the piano playing and composition of the
Dominican pianist once posited as "a Latin Scott Joplin"
Profiles: Gwilym Simcock was delighted to discover the freedom of jazz, less so its pianos; Ben Waters plays boogie-woogie and is pleased, with a pinch of salt, to be elevated above Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington; Grace Kelly thanks Stan Getz for turning her on to saxophone
The Flop 10 Richard Palmer finds 10 jazz records we could do without. He doesn't include Stan Getz except
with Gilberto, but Nic Jones does
Tubby Hayes Simon Spillett provides a taste of his long-awaited Tubby Hayes biography The Long Shadow Of The Little Giant. It's late 1951 and Hayes is taking bebop on the road with Terry Brown, Roy Fox and Tito Burns
On The Other Hand Dave Gelly reflects on 50s jazz as experienced in clubs, shops and on Radio 4 and reports Slim Gaillard’s parliamentary début
Book reviews Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert; The Ultimate Sideman; ECM: A Cultural Archaeology; Miles And Jo; Yodel In Hi-Fi: From Kitsch Folk To Contemporary Electronica
Remembered Bert Whyatt; Derek Watkins; Don Shirley; Edward Bland; Terry Devon
Anec-dotage Alan Luff recalls Teddy Wilson, one of the quiet gentlemen of jazz
Record reviews Over 60 recordings assessed, including a host of reissues. See the whole list
June 2013 contents in full
Profiles: Gwilym Simcock was delighted to discover the freedom of jazz, less so its pianos; Ben Waters plays boogie-woogie and is pleased, with a pinch of salt, to be elevated above Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington; Grace Kelly thanks Stan Getz for turning her on to saxophone
The Flop 10 Richard Palmer finds 10 jazz records we could do without. He doesn't include Stan Getz except
with Gilberto, but Nic Jones does
Tubby Hayes Simon Spillett provides a taste of his long-awaited Tubby Hayes biography The Long Shadow Of The Little Giant. It's late 1951 and Hayes is taking bebop on the road with Terry Brown, Roy Fox and Tito Burns
On The Other Hand Dave Gelly reflects on 50s jazz as experienced in clubs, shops and on Radio 4 and reports Slim Gaillard’s parliamentary début
Book reviews Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert; The Ultimate Sideman; ECM: A Cultural Archaeology; Miles And Jo; Yodel In Hi-Fi: From Kitsch Folk To Contemporary Electronica
Remembered Bert Whyatt; Derek Watkins; Don Shirley; Edward Bland; Terry Devon
Anec-dotage Alan Luff recalls Teddy Wilson, one of the quiet gentlemen of jazz
Record reviews Over 60 recordings assessed, including a host of reissues. See the whole list
June 2013 contents in full
