Thursday, January 16, 2014

Jazz Journal Magazine - January 2014

Scott Henderson Mark Gilbert talks to a guitarist who possibly arrived where Wes Montgomery, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, John McLaughlin and Jimi Hendrix were collectively heading

Critics' Poll 2013 Jazz Journal critics recommend their best listening from 2013. Among the winners, Ahmad Jamal, Gilad Atzmon, Wayne Shorter, Clifford Brown and Woody Shaw

Profiles Saxophonist Robert Fowler, graphics student who graduated to designs in sound with Humph, Bryan Ferry and his own Mulligan CJB project; saxophonist Martin Speake, Parker-Konitz hybrid who added nutritional therapy and world music to his repertoire; keyboard-man and composer Jeff Lorber, master of one of the most literal but often most overlooked hybrids in the book

Anec-dotage Alan Luff was delighted that BBC R3 closed the year with a superb series on Bruce Forsyth’s favourite pianist

Tommy Whittle The Sound of Three Score and Ten: Simon Spillett remembers the late saxophonist in a final interview touching on idealism, commercialism and ageism

Obituaries Lou Colombo; Ronald Shannon Jackson