Profiles Trumpeter and singer Sue Richardson turns to Chet Baker as an antidote to the overly technical; pianist Huw Warren brings the luminous jazz-folk of Quercus to Brecon; Smalls boss Spike Wilner tests the Ronnie Scott joke about making a million out of a jazz club
Jack McDuff Ronald Atkins looks at how Brother Jack brought order and new life to the organ combo, extending traditional musical forms such as the blues
Blowin’ in from Chicago Simon Adams checks the pulse of jazz in the Windy City and finds it healthy – particularly under the tutelage of former Hep Records cornet man Rob Mazurek
Desert island swing Derek Ansell reflects on the history of castaway jazz and pulls his own favourites from the waves
Book & DVD reviews Bud Powell; mainstream revisionism; Kid Ory; Ronnie's sketches; All Night Long reissued; Neil Cowley in Montreux
Anec-dotage Alan Luff marks two more big birthdays: Bob Crosby and Charlie Barnet
Obituaries Johnny Smith; Sam Most; Paul Smith
Record reviews Seventy CDs assessed, including a host of reissues.
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